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Seattle Art Museum

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The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as "SAM") is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, USA. [1]

72 relations: African Americans, Alexander Calder, Armand Guillaumin, Art Deco, Art museum, Association of Art Museum Directors, Bartolomeo Vivarini, Bebb and Gould, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Brad Cloepfil, Cai Guo-Qiang, Camille Pissarro, Capitol Hill (Seattle), Carl Frelinghuysen Gould, Century 21 Exposition, Codex Leicester, Do-ho Suh, Downtown Seattle, Ghana, Giovanni di Paolo, Great Depression, Hammering Man, Héctor Feliciano, Henri Matisse, Henry Art Gallery, Isamu Noguchi, J. C. Penney, Jacob Lawrence, Jason Sprinkle, Jonathan Borofsky, JPMorgan Chase, Leonardo da Vinci, Luca Carlevarijs, Luca Giordano, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Mark Tobey, Mercedes-Benz, Mimi Gardner Gates, National Endowment for the Arts, Nazi plunder, Northwest School (art), Northwestern Mutual, Olympic Sculpture Park, Paolo Uccello, Paul Rosenberg (art dealer), Portland, Oregon, Puccio di Simone, Richard Serra, Robert Venturi, ..., Russell Investments, Russell Investments Center, Samuel Henry Kress, Seattle, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle Center, Seattle City Light, Seattle Foundation, Streamline Moderne, Tacoma, Washington, The Art Newspaper, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, Tlingit, United Kingdom, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, University Street station, Vincent van Gogh, Volunteer Park (Seattle), Washington (state), Washington Mutual, World's fair. Expand index (22 more) »

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century.

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Armand Guillaumin

Armand Guillaumin (February 16, 1841 – June 26, 1927) was a French impressionist painter and lithographer.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

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Art museum

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.

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Association of Art Museum Directors

The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) is an organization of art museum directors from the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

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Bartolomeo Vivarini

Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini (c. 1432c. 1499) was an Italian Renaissance painter, known to have worked from 1450 to 1499.

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Bebb and Gould

The architectural partnership of Bebb and Gould was active in Seattle from 1914 to 1939.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), also known as the Gates Foundation, is a private foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.

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Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian, and principal founder of Microsoft Corporation.

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Brad Cloepfil

Brad Cloepfil (born 1956) is an American architect, educator and principal of Allied Works Architecture of Portland, Oregon and New York City.

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Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang (born 8 December 1957) is a Chinese artist who currently lives and works in New York City and New Jersey.

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Camille Pissarro

Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies).

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Capitol Hill (Seattle)

Capitol Hill is a densely populated residential district in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Carl Frelinghuysen Gould

Carl Frelinghuysen Gould (24 November 1873 – 4 January 1939) also spelled Carl Freylinghausen Gould, was an architect in the Pacific Northwest, and founder and first chair of the architecture program at the University of Washington.

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Century 21 Exposition

The Century 21 Exposition (also known as the Seattle World's Fair) was a world's fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962, in Seattle, Washington.

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Codex Leicester

The Codex Leicester (also briefly known as Codex Hammer) is a collection of scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci.

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Do-ho Suh

Do Ho Suh (hangul:서도호, born 1962) is a Korean sculptor and installation artist.

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Downtown Seattle

Downtown is the central business district of Seattle, Washington.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Giovanni di Paolo

Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia (c. 1403–1482) was an Italian painter, working primarily in Siena.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Hammering Man

Hammering Man is a series of monumental kinetic sculptures designed by Jonathan Borofsky which have been installed in various cities around the world.

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Héctor Feliciano

Hector Feliciano (born 1952) is a Puerto Rican journalist and author whose book "The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art" has shed light on an estimated 20,000 works of art plundered by the Nazis; each one is owned by a museum or a collector somewhere.

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Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

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Henry Art Gallery

The Henry Art Gallery ("The Henry") is the art museum of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Isamu Noguchi

was a Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.

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J. C. Penney

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Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life.

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Jason Sprinkle

Jason Sprinkle (November 6, 1969 - May 16, 2005) was a Seattle-based sculptor and guerrilla artist.

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Jonathan Borofsky

Jonathan Borofsky (born December 24, 1942) is an American sculptor and printmaker who lives and works in Ogunquit, Maine.

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JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.

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Luca Carlevarijs

Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (20 January 1663 – 12 February 1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice.

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Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 12 January 1705) was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching.

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Lucas Cranach the Elder

Lucas Cranach the Elder (Lucas Cranach der Ältere, c. 1472 – 16 October 1553) was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving.

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Mark Tobey

Mark George Tobey (December 11, 1890 – April 24, 1976) was an American painter.

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Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz is a global automobile marque and a division of the German company Daimler AG.

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Mimi Gardner Gates

Mary "Mimi" Gates (née Gardner; born July 30, 1943) is an American art historian who is the recent Director of the Seattle Art Museum.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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Nazi plunder

Nazi plunder refers to art theft and other items stolen as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Third Reich by agents acting on behalf of the ruling Nazi Party of Germany.

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Northwest School (art)

The Northwest School was an American art movement established in small-town Skagit County, Washington and the Seattle area.

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Northwestern Mutual

The Northwestern Mutual is an American financial services mutual organization based in Milwaukee.

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Olympic Sculpture Park

The Olympic Sculpture Park, created and operated by the Seattle Art Museum, is a park, free and open to the public, in Seattle, Washington that opened on January 20, 2007.

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Paolo Uccello

Paolo Uccello (1397 – 10 December 1475), born Paolo di Dono, was an Italian painter and mathematician who was notable for his pioneering work on visual perspective in art.

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Paul Rosenberg (art dealer)

Paul Rosenberg (29 December 1881 – 29 June 1959) was a French art dealer.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.

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Puccio di Simone

Puccio di Simone (fl. 1346-1358) was an Italian Gothic painter, active in Florence.

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Richard Serra

Richard Serra (born November 2, 1938) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal.

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Robert Venturi

Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (born June 25, 1925) is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major architectural figures in the twentieth century.

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Russell Investments

Russell Investments is a global asset management firm, founded in 1936.

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Russell Investments Center

Russell Investments Center is a skyscraper in Seattle, Washington.

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Samuel Henry Kress

Samuel Henry Kress (July 23, 1863 – September 22, 1955) was a businessman and philanthropist, founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. five and ten cent store chain.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Seattle Asian Art Museum

The Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) is a museum of Asian art located inside Volunteer Park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Seattle Center

Originally built for the 1962 World's Fair, the Seattle Center is an arts, educational, tourism and entertainment center in Seattle.

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Seattle City Light

Seattle City Light is the public utility providing electrical power to Seattle, Washington, US, and parts of its metropolitan area, including all of Shoreline and Lake Forest Park and parts of unincorporated King County, Burien, Normandy Park, SeaTac, Renton, and Tukwila.

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Seattle Foundation

Seattle Foundation is the 20th largest community foundation in the United States, serving the greater Seattle area.

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Streamline Moderne

Streamline Moderne, sometimes termed Art Moderne, is a late type of the Art Deco architecture and graphic design/style that emerged in the 1930s.

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Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States.

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The Art Newspaper

The Art Newspaper is an online and paper publication founded in 1990 and based in London and New York City.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Tlingit

The Tlingit (or; also spelled Tlinkit) are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States District Court for the Western District of Washington

The United States District Court for the Western District of Washington (in case citations, W.D. Wash.) is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of the state of Washington: Clallam, Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish, Thurston, Wahkiakum, and Whatcom.

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University Street station

University Street is a light rail and bus station that is part of the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel in Seattle, Washington.

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Volunteer Park (Seattle)

Volunteer Park is a park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, USA.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Washington Mutual

Washington Mutual, Inc., abbreviated to WaMu, was a savings bank holding company and the former owner of Washington Mutual Bank, which was the United States' largest savings and loan association until its collapse in 2008.

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World's fair

A world's fair, world fair, world expo, universal exposition, or international exposition (sometimes expo or Expo for short) is a large international exhibition designed to showcase achievements of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Art_Museum

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