Suburban Street
1940
Yvonne 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.
Oil on canvas
20 x 29 in. (50.8 x 73.7 cm)
Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Prize, 31st Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists
45.84
Photo: Scott Leen
