Download or read book George Tsutakawa and Morris Graves written by Olin Hall Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1978-11-01 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book George Tsutakawa written by Martha Kingsbury and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painter, sculptor, teacher, and internationally renowned fountain designer, George Tsutakawa (1910-1997) was one of the treasure of the Pacific Northwest. In his life and his work he achieved a rare synthesis of the traditions of Japan, his parents? native land, where he lived and went to school for ten years, and those of America, where he was born and to which he returned at the age of seventeen. Martha Kingsbury draws upon her own and others? interviews with Tsutakawa to reveal the way his accomplishments have been shaped by, but have also transcended, the influences of his dual cultural heritage. Throughout we hear the artist?s own voice--witty, ironic, passionate, irreverent--the voice of a man possessed of deep convictions and great wisdom. In six chronologically arranged sections, Kingsbury discusses Tsutakawa?s long life and distinguished career, examining his artistic development in two extended periods. The first period, from the late 1920s into the mid-1950s, encompasses the artist?s early education, growing mastery, and artistic awareness from his student days to beyond World War II. He studied with teachers as divers as Alexander Archipenko, Ambrose Patterson, and Paul Bonifas, and enjoyed the exhilarating company of the e active and talented artists who came to be identifies as the ?Northwest School?--among them Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, Paul Horiuchi, and Kamekichi Tokita. Throughout the Great Depression they painted, talked about art, and socialized long into the night. At this time Tsutakawa thought of himself as a ?Sunday painter,? a modern artist in the western tradition, striving for expression of a private personal vision. By 1956, Tsutakawa--married and settled in his native Seattle--had gained artistic confidence and success as an painter, printmaker, sculptor, and teacher. Two events in that year influence a major shift in his thinking about art. he returned to Japan after an absence of thirty years, to rediscover a deep appreciation of his Japanese heritage. And he read, in a book by William O. Douglas, a description of the ritually stacked rock structures, obos, left by pilgrims at spiritually auspicious sites in the Indian Himalayas. Tsutakawa began to study the organic, almost fortuitously stacked and piled shapes of the obos, compelled by their public nature, the way they combined anonymity with personal meaning. The obos forms (which he was later to see himself on a trek in the foothills of Mt. Everest) inspired a long series of sculpture beginning in 1957, and led Tsutakawa in the 1960s to consider the possibilities of using them in fountains. In more than sixty fountains designed and built since that time, as well as in the sumi drawings he has produced for many years, Tsutakawa has expressed his beliefs about our relationship with nature. His fountains are not the traditional structures in which jets of water squirt at or out of a sculpture, but ones in which the water?s movement over shapes, its sounds, and its reflected light are indispensable to the concept of the form as a whole. This profusely illustrated book, published in connection with an exhibition at the Bellevue Art Museum includes an appreciation of the artist?s fountain sculptor written by the Japanese art historian and critic Sumio Kuwabara, professor at the Musashino College of Arts.

Download or read book Morris Graves written by Robert McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sky of the Mind written by Morris Graves and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Morris Graves a Retrospective written by Morris Graves and published by . This book was released on 1966* with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Morris Graves written by Morris Graves and published by Samuel and Althea Stroum Book. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters are organized topically under the broad categories of people (family, friends, intimates), places (homes and travels), and art (finances and philosophy).Independent curator Vicki Halper knew Graves toward the end of his life through her work as a modern art curator at the Seattle Art Museum. Lawrence Fong is the curator of American and regional art at the University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. "A lively, valuable first-person resource by one of the region's most acclaimed artists. This collection of letters is refreshing for the fuller picture it provides of Graves's thoughts and actions.

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Download or read book Modern Art from the Pacific Northwest in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum written by Barbara Johns and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modernism in the Pacific Northwest written by Patricia A. Junker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical, organized by the Seattle Art Museum and on view from June 19-September 7, 2014"--Colophon.