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Young Bird of the Swamp

Photo: Scott Leen

Young Bird of the Swamp

1959

James Washington, Jr.

American, 1911 - 2000

Granite
6 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 7 1/4 in. (16.51 x 14.61 x 18.42 cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
59.165
Provenance: The artist; purchased by Seattle Art Museum (with funds from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection), Dec. 7, 1959
Photo: Scott Leen
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 45th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, Nov. 4 - Dec. 6, 1959.

Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art League Gallery, Contemporary Sculpture, 1960.

Tacoma, Washington, University of Puget Sound, December Exhibit, 1962.

Anacortes, Washington, Anacortes Arts and Crafts Festival, 1964.

Seattle, Washington, Office of Minority Affairs, University of Washington, and the Ford Foundation, in cooperation with the Society of Ethnic and Special Studies, In Praise of Man and Nature, the Second Annual Conference on Special Emerging Programs in Higher Education (Olympic Hotel), Nov. 6 - 9, 1974.

Bellevue, Washington, Bellevue Art Museum, The Spirit In The Stone: The Visionary Art Of James W. Washington, Jr., Mar. 11 - Apr. 16, 1989. Text by Paul J. Karlstrom, p. 86, reproduced p. 41.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Views and Visions in the Pacific Northwest, June 7 - Sept. 2, 1990.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Birds and Beasts, July 14, 1994 - Apr. 9, 1995.

Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, What It Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century, Oct.15, 1999 - Jan. 23, 2000.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Documents Northwest: Earthly Paradise: Fitzgerald DeFreitas, Karen DeWinter, James W. Washington, Jr., Mar. 30 - Oct. 8, 2000.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Africa in America, Dec. 18, 2004 - Jan. 1, 2006.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Storied Objects, Nov. 13, 2019 - Apr. 26, 2021.

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