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Backyard

Date1934
Object number33.231
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, King County Courthouse, installation in Department of Rehabilitative Services, May 1976. Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, Forgotten Stories: Northwest Public Art of the 1930s, Feb. 22 - Oct. 18, 2020 (Willamette, Oregon, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette College, Nov. 21, 2020 - Mar. 28, 2021. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, American Art: The Stories We Carry, Oct. 20, 2022 - ongoing.Published ReferencesJohns, Barbara. Signs of Home: The Paintings and Wartime Diary of Kamekichi Tokita, in association with Painting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 2011; pp. 35, 76, reproduced fig. 28.
Credit LinePublic Works of Art Project, Washington State
Dimensions26 11/16 x 21 9/16 in. (67.8 x 54.8 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
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ca. 1936
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1925
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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
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1963
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Cleveland Rockwell
1882
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Georgia O'Keeffe
1924
Object number: 94.89
Summer near Waterville
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1954
Object number: 59.78
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
1875
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New Icon
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1964
Object number: 70.23
Photo: Susan Cole
Emilio Amero
1944
Object number: 45.58
Photo: Paul Macapia
Mark Tobey
1940
Object number: 40.58
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Rudolph Franz Zallinger
ca. 1940
Object number: 40.59
Photo: Paul Macapia
Frederic Edwin Church
1854
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