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Mark Tobey's Christ
Helmi Juvonen was born in Butte, Montana on January 17, 1903. She worked in many media including printmaking, painting and paper-craft. She attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where she met artist Mark Tobey with whom she was famously obsessed. Although she was diagnosed as a manic-depressive in 1930, she gained wide appreciation in the Northwest for her linocut prints depicting Northwest Indian people and tribal ceremonies. She worked with a number of artists on the Public Works of Art Project including Fay Chong and Morris Graves. Over the years, her mental health deteriorated and in 1960 she was declared a ward of the state and was committed to Oakhurst Convalescent Center. She was much beloved and had many friends and benefactors (including Wes Wehr) and was able to have exhibitions despite the confinement. She died in 1985.
Identifier: spl_art_J989Ma1
Date: 1955?
View this itemJewish Transcript v. 1, no. 8, Apr. 29, 1924
Identifier: spl_jt_3018328_01_08
Date: 1924-04-29
View this itemOlympic National Life Building demolition, March 28, 1982
The aftermath of Seattle's first implosion demolition in Seattle. Onlookers gaze at the remaining two stories of the Olympic National Life Building after the implosion.
Identifier: spl_dor_00026
Date: 1982-03-28
View this itemMunicipal News v. 55, no. 9, May. 10, 1965
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_55_09
Date: 1965-05-10
View this itemWest Seattle Bridge entrance ramps at SW Spokane St. and SW Avalon Way, May 30, 1968
View of West Seattle High-Rise Bridge (high bridge), which opened in 1984, and the Spokane Street Swing Bridge (low bridge), which opened in 1991 over the Duwamish River.
Identifier: spl_dor_00006
Date: 1968-05-30
View this itemGarden Theater just after closure, 3rd Ave. between Pike St. and Pine St., September 18, 1979
Also known as the Winter Garden Theater, it opened in December 1920 and closed in June 1979 as the Garden Art Theater. The Fischer Studio Building appears to the right of the theater and the Melbourne House Building appears to the left.
Identifier: spl_dor_00023
Date: 1978-09-18
View this itemMcKee's Correct Road Map of Seattle and Vicinity, Washington, U.S.A., 1894
""Showing details of roads and graded streets and positions of principal dwellings and prominent buildings.""
Identifier: spl_maps_2445404
Date: 1894
View this itemMunicipal News v. 55, no. 5, Mar. 8, 1965
Article on page 37 discusses areas of the city where landfills were used to fill in formerly unusable land.
Identifier: spl_mn_818362_55_05
Date: 1965-03-08
View this item2nd Ave. north from near Columbia St., July 26, 1981
Photograph shows the Savoy Hotel Building, Marion Building, and Melhorn Building.
Identifier: spl_dor_00034
Date: 1981-07-26
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