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Primitive Forms II

Photo: Susan Cole

Primitive Forms II

1962

Guy Anderson

born Edmonds, Washington, 1906; died La Conner, Washington, 1998

Oil on composition board
39 1/2 x 29 5/8 in. (100.3 x 75.3 cm)
Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection
63.88
Photo: Susan Cole
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Otto Seligman Gallery, Guy Anderson Exhibition, Apr. 8 - 27, 1963.

Wenatchee, Washington, Wenatchee Valley College, Northwest Artists, 1965.

Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, Guy Anderson Retropsective, 1968.

Tacoma, Washington, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Northwest Painting, 1969.

Kobe, Japan, Kobe Municipal Art Museum, 35 Seattle Artists: Seattle To Kobe (Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum; Anchorage, Alaska Methodist University; Bozeman, Montana State University; Great Falls, Montana, College of Great Falls; Longview, Washington, Lower Columbia College; Spokane, Washington, Gonzaga University; Bellingham, Washington, Western Washington State College, 1966-67).

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum and Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Guy Anderson, June 30 - Sept. 11, 1977.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modern Art Pavilion, Northwest Traditions, June 29 - Dec. 10, 1978 (Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, Mar. 19 - Apr. 29, 1979).

Washington, D.C., Selections for the Residence of Vice President Mondale, Mar. 1980 - Apr. 1981.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse, Nov. 16, 2013 - Feb. 16, 2014 (New York, New York, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Apr. 12, 2014 - Sept. 28, 2014). Text by Barbara Brotherton. No cat. no., p. 33, reproduced fig. 7.
Published ReferencesKittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, NORTHWEST PAINTING, 1969, cat. no. 26.

Koenig, John F., "L'Ecole de Seattle," INFORMATIONS & DOCUMENTS of Services Americans d'Information et de Relations culturelles, #314, January, 1972, p. 22.

Kingsbury, Martha and Sarah Clark. "Northwest Traditions." Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 1978, p. 35.

Francine Seders Gallery, GUY ANDERSON, Bruce Guenther, University of Washington Press, October, 1986.

Guenther, Bruce, SEATTLE REVIEW, Spring, 1987.

Kangas, Matthew, "Return to the Viewer: Selected Art Reviews", Midmarch Arts Press, 2011, pg. 32.

Brotherton, Barbara. Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse. Exh. Cat. Seattle, Washington: Seattle Art Museum, 2013-14; p. 33, reproduced fig. 7 [not in exhibition].

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