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| Title | Richard Fuller holding a painting with Francoise Choay, probably at Seattle Art Museum, 1960 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1960 |
| Caption | Born in New York in 1897, Richard Fuller, Ph.D., came to Seattle in 1926 with his mother and sister. An avid art collector and patron, Fuller was the founding director of the Seattle Art Museum, which opened in 1933, serving in that position without a salary until his death in 1976. His "day job" was as professor of Geology at the University of Washington, beginning in 1940. |
| Notes | Handwritten on image: Dr. Richard Fuller, Francoise Choay, 10-8-60.
Caption information source: Library of Congress Name Authority File; historylink.org.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): October 8, 1960. |
| Subjects | Galleries & museums--Washington (State)--Seattle; Art--Washington (State)--Seattle; Storage facilities--Washington (State)--Seattle; Teachers--Washington (State)--Seattle; Intellectuals--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Personal Names | Fuller, Richard E. (Richard Eugene), 1897-1976
Choay, Francoise |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Capitol Hill (Seattle, Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.25776 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 acetate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
