Northwest School (art)
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The Northwest School was an American art movement established in the Seattle area. It flourished in the 1930s–40s.
Carl Morris Agriculture, c. 1941–42, mural, Eugene, Oregon post office
Mark Tobey
Ambrose Patterson – Self-portrait ("La Fenêtre de l'atelier")
Elliot Dairy Farm, photograph by Mary Randlett (1920)
Morris Graves
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Morris Cole Graves was an American painter. He was one of the earliest Modern artists from the Pacific Northwest to achieve national and international acclaim. His style, referred to by some reviewers
Northwest School (art)
…in the 1930s–40s. The movement's early participants, and its defining artists, have become known as "the big four": Guy Anderson, Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves and Mark Tobey. Their work became recognized nationally from LIFE magazine's 1953 article Mystic Painters of the Northwest, which featured biographies…
Morris Graves, 1938. Photo by Robert Bruce Inverarity. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Church at Index, 1934, painted for the Works Projects Administration
Dove of the Inner Eye, Morris Graves, 1941, opaque watercolor on oiled paper
Hibernation, Morris Graves, 1954