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| Title | Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, Wash.), August 1931 design for exterior facade |
| 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: 15 x 55 cm. |
| Building Street Address | Volunteer Park |
| Building Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Purpose | Conceptual drawings
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| Representation | Elevations
Sketches
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| Descriptive Notes | Handwritten below drawing:
Sept '31 (?) |
| Building Style | Classical Revival
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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. Although the date Sept '31 is written below the drawing, current scholarship suggests an earlier date of August 1931. From late-1930 to mid-1931, Gould visited museums throughout the country for inspiration. In August of 1931 he prepared a series of small sketches, of which this drawing is one, that show some early design choices Gould favored for Seattle's new art museum. (Although Bebb remained Gould's partner and business adviser until the latter's death, after 1924 his influence in the firm declined substantially.) In 1991 a new museum was built in the downtown area and the Volunteer Park building became the Seattle Asian Art Museum. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Elevations; Sketches |
| 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 | ARC0622
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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. |
