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| Title | Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, Wash.), October 1931 design for entrance facade and plan |
| Alternate Title | Seattle Asian Art Museum |
| Architectural Firm Name | Bebb & Gould |
| Architects | Gould, Carl Freylinghausen, 1873-1939
Bebb, Charles H. |
| Client | Art Institute of Seattle |
| Date of Drawing Execution | 1931 |
| Object Type | Architectural drawings |
| Physical Description | Graphite on tracing paper: 30 x 72 cm. |
| Building Street Address | Volunteer Park |
| Building Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Purpose | Design drawings
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| Representation | Elevations
Plans
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| Building Style | Art Deco
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| Building Notes | Across the span of Carl F. Gould's career in Seattle (1908-1939), architectural design moved from eclectic adaptations of historical models to the adoption of regional and nontraditional styles espoused by the Modern movement, and his buildings fully reflect this range of expression. Gould's design for the Seattle Art Museum was the first art museum in the country to be built in the modern style. His design development drawings for the museum are unique among those in the Gould collection for their precise dating. They reveal the design sequence from his earliest neoclassical efforts to his final modern solution. With no windows or surface relief, except at the ends and central entrance, the building achieved an imposing monumentality. Local wilkeson sandstone was used to finish the west entrance facade, while aluminum was chosen to highlight the museum's entrance doors, grille and the two exterior fountains. As they were needed office and exhibition space were added to the rear of the building in subsequent decades, although these additions did not conform to the original expansion plans developed by Bebb & Gould. 1991 a new museum was built in the downtown area, and the Volunteer Park building became the Seattle Asian Art Museum. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Elevations |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Seattle Asian Art Museum; Art museums--Washington (State)--Seattle--Designs and plans |
| Digital Collection | Architecture Collection
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| Digital ID Number | ARC0655
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| Ordering Information | Restrictions apply to the ordering of this image. Please contact photos@u.washington.edu for more information. |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Carl F. Gould Collection |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 200-400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2006. |
