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Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson  
Author: Sheryl Conkelton
ISBN: 0295983221
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Book Description
Some of the best-known modern painters in the American Northwest, the artists Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson have been called the leaders of a "Northwest School" since the 1940s. But a detailed investigation of their interactions from 1930 to 1954 shows the perception of these four artists as a cohesive group to be a myth. Northwest Mythologies offers a new analysis of their interactions and accomplishments, and places their art and ideologies in the larger context of American modernism. Although the four artists exchanged ideas and shared common interests, they were close friends and colleagues for only a few years around the time of World War II. Each experimented with stylistic elements admired in the others’ painting, yet they produced distinctive, widely ranging bodies of work over their long careers. What fundamentally united these artists was their philosophical approach to artmaking, one that rested on humanism and their passionate belief in art as a moral pursuit. Constructing a chronology from letters, interviews, and new analyses of their works, Northwest Mythologies reexamines the careers and complex friendships of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson, and explores their different understandings of what it meant to be an artist. This book is the first study of the four painters to finely articulate their differences and achievements, and it presents a new view of their place in American art.

About the Author
Sheryl Conkelton is a curator and historian based in Seattle. Among the many exhibitions she has organized are Uta Barth: In Between Places and Annette Messager. Other publications include Frederick Sommer and What It Meant to Be Modern: Seattle Art at Mid-Century. She has worked at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Laura Landau is an independent curator who has held positions with the Henry Art Gallery, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. They are co-curators of the Tacoma Art Museum’s exhibition Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson.




Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson

FROM THE PUBLISHER

"Some of the best-known modern painters in the American Northwest, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson have been called the leaders of a "Northwest School" since the 1940s. But a detailed investigation of their interactions from 1930 to 1954 shows the perception of these four artists as a cohesive group to be a myth. Northwest Mythologies offers a new analysis of their interactions and accomplishments and places their art and ideologies in the larger context of American modernism." Constructing a chronology from letters, interviews, and new analyses of their works, Northwest Mythologies reexamines the careers and complex friendships of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson and explores their different understandings of what it meant to be an artist. This book is the first study of the four painters to finely articulate their differences and achievements, and it presents a new view of their place in American art.

SYNOPSIS

Published in conjunction with a 2003 exhibition organized by the Tacoma Art Museum, this catalog offers two extensive essays by curators Conkelton and Landau, who draw on letters, interviews, and new analyses of the artists' works to investigate how these "mystic painters of the Northwest" influenced one another. The four painters were friends and colleagues for only a few years around the time of World War II, and their styles are entirely individual and distinctive; yet they are linked by their association with the Pacific Northwest and by underlying philosophical interests. A section of plates is followed by a timeline, exhibition checklist, and bibliography. Slightly oversize: 9.5x11.25" Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

     



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