Works are often expressive, all over compositions.
In addition to the extensive Tobey collection, the Museum's Northwest Modernist collection includes work by Kathleen Adkison, Aden Arnold, Louis Bunce, Freeman Butts, Kenneth Callahan , Lila Girvin, Joe Goldberg , Walter Hook, Paul Horiuchi, Helmi Juvonen, William Ivey, Alden Mason, Conan Mathews , Ed Tsutakawa, and Wes Wehr. CCM also owns photographs of Wes Wehr, Mark Tobey and Morris Graves, and Helmi Juvonen taken by Seattle photographer Mary Randlett . Randlett is a central figure in the Northwest School. She has gained recognition with her landscape photographs which are also represented in the collection.