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Photo: Scott Leen
Suburban Street
Photo: Scott Leen

Suburban Street

Date1940
Maker Yvonne Twining Humber American, 1907 - 2004
Label TextYvonne Twining Humber passed away on May 13, 2004, at the age of 96. Humber moved to Seattle in 1943 from the east coast, where she had been awarded two consecutive Tiffany Foundation scholarships following her studies at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. She worked in Boston with the Works Progress Administration for the duration of the program, producing paintings of both urban and rural scenes. After her move to Seattle, Humber became a lifelong member of the Women Painters of Washington and continued drawing into her nineties. She was honored with a one-person show at the Seattle Art Museum in 1946, and received first place in the Northwest Annual, where Mark Tobey was one of the judges. Two of her paintings are now in the SAM's permanent collection. Her generous gift to the Artist Trust Endowment Fund established the annual Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, an award of $10,000 given to a woman visual artist of Washington State, age sixty or over, who still continues their artistic practice.
Object number45.84
Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Frye Art Museum, "Allan Rohan Crite: Artist-Reporter" March 1, 2001 - May 15, 2001 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "31st Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists" Seattle, Washington, Seattle University, Kinsey Gallery, "Pioneer Women Artists: Seattle, 1880s-1940s", January 26 - March 18, 1993. (01/26/1993 - 03/31/1993) Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "The View From Here: The Pacific Northwest 1870-1940" July 1, 2004 - February 27, 2005 (7/1/2004-2/27/2005)
Credit LineMargaret E. Fuller Purchase Prize, 31st Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists
Dimensions20 x 29 in. (50.8 x 73.7 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
Spoiled Carnival
Yvonne Twining Humber
1946
Object number: 47.154
Street Corner
Thomas F. McClure
1943
Object number: 43.22
Photo: Paul Macapia
Kenjiro Nomura
ca. 1932
Object number: 33.225
Photo: Susan Cole
Raphael Soyer
1965-66
Object number: 2012.15.35
Harold Street #14
Louis Bunce
1975
Object number: 83.62
Photo: Scott Leen
Yvonne Thomas
1992
Object number: 2009.5.13
Photo: iocolor, Seattle
Yvonne Koolmatrie
2003
Object number: 2019.20.5
Trio A
Yvonne Rainer
1978
Object number: 2017.13
Burial of the New Law II
Morris Graves
ca. 1936
Object number: 73.4
Portrait of Mrs. Stanley Griffiths
Mark Tobey
1925
Object number: SC87.25
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Mark Tobey
1963
Object number: 74.41
Photo: Paul Macapia
Cleveland Rockwell
1882
Object number: 89.70