Rustic Pine Entertainment Center

1979

American, born 1936

Seattle-based artist Fay Jones’s paintings are populated with enigmatic figures and objects that suggest a grander narrative just out of reach. Describing her work as fiction that is “caught between curious affection for history and anxiety for the future,” she invites viewers in to probe and find their own way through dreamlike layers of meaning.

Acrylic on rag paper

52 x 47 in. (132.1 x 119.4 cm)

Overall h.: 53 in.

Overall w.: 48 in.

Gift of Pacific Northwest Art Council

80.43

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Freeing the Figure, November 5, 2009 - November 28, 2010.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Views and Visions In The Pacific Northwest, June 7, 1990 - September 2, 1990.

Boise, Idaho, Boise Art Museum, Fay Jones: A 20 Year Retrospective, August 31 - October 27, 1996 (Pullman, Washington, Museum of Art, Washington State University, January 14 - February 23, 1997; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, March 20 - July 22, 1997).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture, June 21 - September 2, 2024.

Published ReferencesJohns, Barbara. "Modern Art from the Pacific Northwest in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1990, no. 25, p. 29

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