Iridescent Light

Iridescent Light: The Emergence of Northwest Art

  • by Doloris Tarzan Ament
  • Photographs by Mary Randlett
  • Published by the Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, and the University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2002
  • 7.25 in. x 10.25 in., 388 pages, numerous photographs of artists and their art, 24 color plates
  • The book provides biographies of twenty-one artists who made major contributions to the art of the Pacific Northwest in the mid-to-late twentieth century. It includes numerous photographs of the artists and their art, and chronologies of the major events and achievements in lives of each artist.

Featured Artists

  • Guy Anderson
  • Tony Angell
  • Kenneth Callahan
  • Doris Totten Chase
  • William Cumming
  • Richard Gilkey
  • Morris Graves
  • Paul Horiuchi
  • Clayton James
  • Helmi Juvonen
  • Leo Kenny
  • John-Franklin Koenig
  • Phillip Levine
  • Philip McCracken
  • Neil Metzler
  • Joshel Namkung
  • Mary Randlett
  • Mark Tobey
  • George Tsutakawa
  • James W. Washington, Jr.
  • Wesley Wehr