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Young Bird of the Swamp

Date1959

Maker James Washington, Jr. American, 1911 - 2000

Object number59.165

ProvenanceThe artist; purchased by Seattle Art Museum (with funds from the Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection), Dec. 7, 1959

Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen

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., March 11 - April 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 - September 2, 1990. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Birds and Beasts, July 14, 1994 - April 9, 1995. Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, What It Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century, October 5, 1999 - January 23, 2000. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Documents Northwest: Earthly Paradise: Fitzgerald DeFreitas, Karen DeWinter, James W. Washington, Jr., March 30 - October 8, 2000. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Africa in America, December 18, 2004 - January 1, 2006. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Storied Objects, November 13, 2019 - April 26, 2021. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Remember the Rain, August 18, 2023 - October 14, 2024.

Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection

DimensionsStone sculpture: 6 1/2 × 5 3/4 × 7 1/4 in. (16.5 × 14.6 × 18.4 cm) Wood mount: 4 1/2 × 4 1/4 × 3 1/16 in. (11.4 × 10.8 × 7.8 cm)

MediumGranite