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Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, Wash.), February 2, 1932 basement floor plan
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| Title | Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, Wash.), February 2, 1932 basement floor plan |
| Alternate Title | Seattle Asian Art Museum |
| Architectural Firm Name | Bebb & Gould |
| Architects | Gould, Carl Freylinghausen, 1873-1939
Bebb, Charles H. |
| Artist | Wurdeman, Walter C. |
| Client | Art Institute of Seattle |
| Date of Drawing Execution | 1932 |
| Object Type | Architectural drawings |
| Physical Description | Graphite and colored pencil on tracing paper: 29 x 59 cm. |
| Building Street Address | Volunteer Park |
| Building Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Purpose | Working drawings
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| Representation | Floor plans
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| Descriptive Notes | Handwritten below drawing:
Plan of Basement Floor
Approved Board of Trustees - Art Institute
Feb. 9, 1932
by M.C. Force
Proposed Museum for the Art Institute of Seattle
Bebb & Gould - Architects
W.C.W. Feb. 2, 1932
Scale: 1/16"=1'0" |
| 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. Interior gallery and public spaces were emphasized by use of colored natural materials in red, green and black, accented by gold and aluminum. The two elongated galleries along the east side had windows overlooking the park at the back of the museum. The central "garden court" contained a green fountain and plants covered by a flat-roofed skylight. The lower level housed administrative spaces, library and auditorium. A daylight basement level provided additional office space, a workshop, facilities, delivery area and art storage. 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. (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) | Floor plans |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Seattle Asian Art Museum; Art museums--Washington (State)--Seattle--Designs and plans; Basements--Washington (State)--Seattle--Designs and plans |
| Digital Collection | Architecture Collection
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| Digital ID Number | ARC0627
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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. |
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