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| Title | Henry Art Gallery exhibition, Seattle, September 1937 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1937 |
| Caption | The Henry Art Gallery, founded in 1927, was the first public art museum in Washington State. Located on the University of Washington campus, the Henry continues to bring contemporary art to the Pacific Northwest to this day.
In September 1937, the Henry Art Gallery filled its rooms with an exhibit of tapestries and old masters paintings. In this photograph, a man at the exhibit examines a folding screen on display |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: SEATTLE, Art Galleries, Henry, exhibit of famous paintings.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): September 7, 1937. |
| Subjects | Art--Washington (State)--Seattle; Galleries & museums--Washington (State)--Seattle; Henry Art Gallery; Screens--Washington (State)--Seattle; Tapestries--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States—Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.7303.1 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI). |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Photograph Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from film negative using Epson Expression 10000XL as 4350 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS5, JPEG quality measurement 5. |
