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<p>Sadie Barnette, <i>Room to Live</i>, 2019. Mixed media installation, holographic vinyl sofa, metal flake TV, archival inkjet prints, metal flake security cameras. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of <i>In Plain Sight</i>, 2019, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Mark Woods.</p>

In Plain Sight

November 23, 2019 – Ongoing

<p>Jean-François Millet was committed to the role of art in representing agricultural practice and peasant life in the nineteenth century. Two issues significant to nineteenth-century social history that intersect in his study of rural life include the status of the working classes and the position of women. In the prints pictured here, Millet depicts women outside in pastoral fields as well as within humble interiors, performing childcare and domestic crafts such as knitting. Millet portrays the female figure as nurturer and dutiful laborer, emphasizing ideological definitions of femininity and virtue. In nineteenth-century France amid the Industrial Revolution, the peasant woman embodied a positive image associated with a return to innocence. Identified with the uncorrupted realm of nature, the pastoral woman symbolizes the personification of sanctity in opposition to the perceived moral threat of the urban woman, as well as that of the urban environment to a woman’s innocence. The intimate prints emphasize the acts of spinning, sewing, or knitting, and caregiving as devotional, quasi-religious activities, connecting holiness to rural and domestic labor.</p>

<p><p>Image credit: Jean-François Millet, <em>La Cardeuse (The Woolcarder), </em>1855-1856. Etching on laid paper. Henry Art Gallery Stimson Collection, gift of Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, 77.129.</p></p>

A Dialogue Between Jean-François Millet and Jeanne Dunning

Spring/Summer 2020

<p>Dola Mae Litzenburg. <em>Portrait of Mrs. Horace C. Henry</em>. 1900-1910. Oil on canvas. Henry Art Gallery, Horace C. Henry Collection, 26.165.<br /></p>

<p><p>With the billowing red curtain and the throne-like chair, as well as her formal dress and stiff posture, this portrait of Mrs. Horace C. Henry (née Susan Elizabeth Johnson) references traditions of royal portraiture that were adopted by the wealthy, and checks most of Freeland’s boxes.</p></p>

Online Presentations

Eyes on the Collection: What Makes a Portrait?

Spring/Summer 2020

<p><p>Imogen Cunningham, untitled (Children Playing), 1959. Gelatin silver print. Henry Art Gallery, gift of Gryffyd and Janet Partridge, in memory of Imogen Cunningham, 96.6. </p><p>Balancing her identities as an artist and mother of three boys, Cunningham focused on subjects within her home—her children and backyard—in her earlier work. This image of children playing in the garden marks Cunningham’s return to a familiar theme, and perhaps guides us to find inspiration as we continue to stay at home.<br></p>
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Online Presentations

Eyes on the Collection: The Need to Play

<p>Pieter J. L. van Veen, <em>La Rue Francois Millet, Barbizon, France</em>, 1915. Oil on canvas. Henry Art Gallery, Horace C. Henry Collection, 26.136.</p>

Online Presentations

Eyes on the Collection: The Complexity of Landscape

<p>April Gornik, <em>Desert Lake</em>, 1993. Soft-ground etching and aquatint on Japanese paper. Henry Art Gallery, gift of Burt and Jane Berman, 2001.191.</p>

Online Presentations

Eyes on the Collection: The Great Outdoors

ONLINE - Hugo House Scribes Summer Writing Camp

<p>Aidan Park, <em>Untitled Self-Portrait, </em>2020. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.</p>

Online Presentations

Henry Teen Art Collective: Self Portraits

Summer/Fall 2020

Henry Teen Art Collective - Call for Applications

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James Turrell. <em>Light Reign (Exterior detail)</em>. 2003. Permanent skyspace and exterior illumination work. Copyright: James Turrell. Photo credit: Lara Swimmer.</p>

Permanent Installations

Light Reign: James Turrell Skyspace

Upcoming

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: Still Life (noon session)

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Still Life (evening session)

ONLINE - Re/frame: Tell Me a Tale/Show Me a Story (noon session)

ONLINE - Re/frame: Tell Me a Tale/Show Me a Story (evening session)

<p>Bambitchell. Set Documentation of <em>Bugs & Beasts Before the Law. </em>2019. Courtesy of the artists. Photo: Florian Clewe.<br /> </p>

Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law

<p>Honoré Daumier, <em>Le Ventre Législatif</em>, Henry Art Gallery, Gift of Albert A. Feldmann, 2018.357. </p>

Illustrating Injustice: The Power of Print

<p>Math Bass. <em>Newz!.</em> 2020. Gouache/canvas. Courtesy of the artist.<br></p>

Math Bass

<p>Diana Al-Hadid. <em>Smoke Screen. </em>2015. Polymer gypsum, fiberglass, steel, gold leaf, plaster, pigment. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Joshua White.</p>

Diana Al-Hadid

Past

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: Order & Chaos (evening session)

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: Order & Chaos (noon session)

2020 Henry Gallery Association Annual Meeting

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Discussion Seminar: Takahiro Yamamoto

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Art of the Triptych (Evening Session)

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Art of the Triptych

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: To the Stars

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: L'Appel à la Danse (The Call of Dance)

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: Community Action Center

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Built Environment

Talks & Performances

ONLINE - Re/frame: The Built Environment

Re-visiting Awaiting Oblivion...

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: Sight Lines - Video Poetry Showcase

SCREENING ONLINE - In Plain Sight Film Series: The Tuba Thieves by Alison O'Daniel

Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Re/frame: Selections from the Henry Teen Art Collective

Talks & Performances

CANCELLED - Re/frame: Selections from the Henry Teen Art Collective