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NORTHWEST ART PRINTS GO AT TACOMA SALE Handforth Sketches, Including Olympia Indian Subjects, Offered Next Wednesday Night “Going, going, gone!” This chant of the auctioneer, impersonated by Lancaster Pollard, will be heard next Wednesday evening, May 29, in Hewitt Hall, the Ferry Museum, Tacoma, as the early etching, sketches and oil paintings of Thomas Handforth, internationally known Pacific Northwest etcher, are auctioned off after their exhibit starting Sunday. The exhibit and auction are sponsored by the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce. Handforth is the winner of the coveted Charles Lea prize for the best print at the current exhibit of the Annual Print Club in Philadelphia with his etching, “Leda.” Fine, delicate lines characterize this print of North African influence. OLYMPIC INDIAN SKETCHES Pencil sketches of the Olympic Peninsula Indians and their fishing villages, occupations, traditional dances made two years ago will be interesting material for collectors. These sketches were the first drawings for his now famous Northwest etchings the Eastern galleries include in their permanent collections. “The Wold Dancer of the Quillayutes,” a pencil sketch made two years ago at La Push, is typical of the drawings and prints to be auctioned off by the Northwest-North African artist. Museums which have purchased Handforth’s prints and sketches for their permanent collections are: The Metropolitan Museum, New York, fourteen in 1926 and four more the following year; the New York public library, six in 1928; Paul J. Sachs, for the Fogg Art Museum, Boston, six etchings and six drawings; Academy of Fine Arts, Honolulu, eleven in 1928; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, has three prints in its collection. The Harry Hartman Bookship with have a loan exhibit of Handforth’s recent etchings at the exhibit-auction sale, sponsored by the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce.
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Original index title | 39a |
Title | NORTHWEST ART PRINTS GO AT TACOMA SALE : Handforth Sketches, Including Olympia Indian Subjects, Offered Next Wednesday Night |
Description | NORTHWEST ART PRINTS GO AT TACOMA SALE : Handforth Sketches, Including Olympia Indian Subjects, Offered Next Wednesday Night |
Subject Keys | TACOMA SALE ; Olympia Indian ; Hewitt Hall ; Ferry Museum ; Tacoma ; Washington ; Thomas Handforth ; Charles Lea prize ; Leda ; Olympic Peninsula Indians ; “The Wold Dancer of the Quillayutes” ; La Push ; The Metropolitan Museum ; New York public library ; Paul J. Sachs ; Academy of Fine Arts, Honolulu ; Biblioteque Nationale |
Resource Type | Text |
Genre | Clippings |
Language | English |
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Full-Text | NORTHWEST ART PRINTS GO AT TACOMA SALE Handforth Sketches, Including Olympia Indian Subjects, Offered Next Wednesday Night “Going, going, gone!” This chant of the auctioneer, impersonated by Lancaster Pollard, will be heard next Wednesday evening, May 29, in Hewitt Hall, the Ferry Museum, Tacoma, as the early etching, sketches and oil paintings of Thomas Handforth, internationally known Pacific Northwest etcher, are auctioned off after their exhibit starting Sunday. The exhibit and auction are sponsored by the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce. Handforth is the winner of the coveted Charles Lea prize for the best print at the current exhibit of the Annual Print Club in Philadelphia with his etching, “Leda.” Fine, delicate lines characterize this print of North African influence. OLYMPIC INDIAN SKETCHES Pencil sketches of the Olympic Peninsula Indians and their fishing villages, occupations, traditional dances made two years ago will be interesting material for collectors. These sketches were the first drawings for his now famous Northwest etchings the Eastern galleries include in their permanent collections. “The Wold Dancer of the Quillayutes,” a pencil sketch made two years ago at La Push, is typical of the drawings and prints to be auctioned off by the Northwest-North African artist. Museums which have purchased Handforth’s prints and sketches for their permanent collections are: The Metropolitan Museum, New York, fourteen in 1926 and four more the following year; the New York public library, six in 1928; Paul J. Sachs, for the Fogg Art Museum, Boston, six etchings and six drawings; Academy of Fine Arts, Honolulu, eleven in 1928; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, has three prints in its collection. The Harry Hartman Bookship with have a loan exhibit of Handforth’s recent etchings at the exhibit-auction sale, sponsored by the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce. |
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