4/14/2023 0 Comments Pacific northwest art![]() 9 The fascination with the Northwest School and Tobey’s style of “white writing” brought international attention to the region, and increased local participation in the NWA. In the mid-twentieth century there was considerable interest in Northwest art as a result of the infamous Life Magazine article published in 1953 “Mystic Painters of the Northwest” 5 featuring Mark Tobey 6, Morris Graves 7, Kenneth Callahan 8, and Guy Anderson. Richard Fuller, helped recognize the unique work being produced in the region, launching the careers of countless artists. Over the decades the NWA, under the direction of Dr. First held in the exhibition rooms of the Washington State Arts Association, it eventually found a permanent home in the Volunteer Park museum in 1933, the same year in which Florence Harrison Nesbit 2 (co-founder of the Northwest Watercolor Society), Peter Camfferman 3 (one of the earliest Modernist painters in the Northwest, along with his wife Margaret Camfferman 4 ), and Morris Graves (internationally acclaimed painter) won prizes in the Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists. Predating the Seattle Art Museum as it is known today, the NWA spanned decades of change in the art world, particularly in the Northwest. Its intention was to exhibit high quality works in a wide variety of artistic expressions, with a focus on painting and sculpture, and to give recognition to new talent in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. 1 Its first recorded exhibition was in 1914, and it continued for over sixty years until its final show in 1977. The Northwest Annual Exhibition (NWA) was a yearly exhibition of work by artists from the Pacific Northwest, held first by the Seattle Fine Arts Society, then the Art Institute of Seattle, and finally the Seattle Art Museum.
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