Looking Back: Northwest Icons

This exhibition will feature a selection of work by regional artists who came to prominence in the mid-20th century, including Carl and Hilda Morris, Amanda Snyder, Sally Haley, Michele Russo, Arthur and Albert Runquist and others. Northwest Icons will consist of work by those who have had a profound influence on Portland and the Pacific Northwest as a whole. Their subject matter ranges from elegant still life, to lyrical abstraction, to representational observations of the world from the artists’ times. Works by these artists have been exhibited throughout the Pacific Northwest, nationally, and internationally including, the Seattle Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. Major public and private collections include the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle and Tacoma Art Museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum.