Iridescent Light
Subtitle: The Emergence of Northwest Art
Contributors: Mary Randlett (Photographer)
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780295981475
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; 20th Century Art; Art & Art Instruction; Art; USA; Washington state; History - General; 20th century; Art, American; Artists; Biography; History and criticism; Northwest school of artists; Washington (State)
First sentence: A GROUP OF ARTISTS WHO CAME TO BE KNOWN AS THE Northwest School emerged in and around Seattle in the 1940s.
Description: "In and around Seattle in the 1930s and 1940s, there emerged a group of artists who came to be known informally as the Northwest School. With no manifesto and no sense of group identity, they had little in common beyond poverty and the drive to make art in a way that was true to their inner being and their environment.

Despite their denial that they constituted a school, their response to Northwest light and to the world around them created a distinctive style that continued to evolve over the next sixty years.".

"In Iridescent Light, the distinguished art critic Deloris Tarzan Ament profiles twenty-one of these artists who lived and worked in Washington State during formative periods in their careers. The author blends discussion of their work with commentary on the obstacles they faced and the influences they brought to bear on one another, showing not only how artistic visions were shaped but also how encouragement from a few farseeing patrons enabled the very survival of these artists.

Essays are illustrated by Mary Randlett's photographs, taken over half a century."--BOOK JACKET.