James Eldin Reed: Pacific Northwest Renaissance

1. General Nonfiction

Mark Tobey and the Pacific Northwest Modernists

“A wonderfully detailed and, at the same time, evocative work of interpretation that weaves together media, history, and artists.”

—David Hall, Harvard University

2. Cultural History

Mary McCarthy’s Seattle

The exuberant coming of age—in the many-angled Seattle of the 1920s—of one of America’s most celebrated intellectuals.

3. Religion and Culture

Emily Carr in God’s Country

“A richly evocative and deeply humane exploration of religion, culture, and art.”

—David Hempton, Harvard Divinity School

Painters

Mark Tobey, E Pluribus Unum, 1942. Seattle Art Museum.

Mark Tobey, Universal City, 1951. SAM.

Seattle Rehearsal of Tobey's Suite for Flute and Piano, 1950. Composer at right.

Tobey Retrospective at the Louvre, 1961.

Kenneth Callahan, Portrait of Morris Graves, 1936. Henry Gallery, University of Washington.

Morris Graves, Blind Bird, 1942. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Morris Graves, Waning Moon: No. 2, 1943. SAM.

Morris Graves, Bird Sensing the Essential Insanities, 1944. SAM.

Guy Anderson, Deception Pass through Indian Country, 1959. SAM.

Lawren Harris, Mount Lefroy, 1930. McMichael Canadian Collection. Copyright Harris estate.

Emily Carr, Strait of Juan de Fuca, 1936. McMichael Collection.

Emily Carr, Indian Church, 1929. Art Gallery of Ontario.

“At the field’s end, in the corner missed by the mower.”

–Theodore Roethke, The Far Field