Tacoma Art Museum

Yvonne Twining Humber

(b. 1907, New York City, New York; d. 2004, Redmond, Washington)
Carnival, 1946
Color silkscreen
Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches
Gift of David F. Martin, Dominic Zambito, and the artist, 1999.11.1

Yvonne Humber was one of the first hard-edged realist painters in the Northwest. She trained at the National Academy of Design and Art Students League in New York and worked for the Federal Art Project in Boston before coming to Seattle in 1943. She exhibited nationally and became a member, and later president, of the Women Painters of Washington as well as the Northwest Printmakers Society. Artist Trust in Seattle annually awards a prize she endowed to recognize Washington State women artists over the age of 60.

Yvonne Twining Humber

(b. 1907, New York, New York; d. 2004, Seattle, Washington)
Rodeo, 1945-1946
Screenprint
Dimensions: 12 1/16 x 14 inches
Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of the Artist and Martin-Zambito Fine Art, 1993.6.1

See the entry for Carnival for further biographical information on this artist.

Fay Jones

(b. 1936, Boston, Massachusetts)
Body Fires, 1991
Acrylic and collage on paper, triptych
Dimensions: 75 x 52 1/2 inches, each panel
Tacoma Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1992.9

Fay Jones began her career with a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1957, and in 2005 she received the Twining Humber Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement from Artist Trust in Seattle. She has an extraordinary exhibition history that includes Fay Jones: A 20 Year Retrospective, organized by the Boise Art Museum in 1996. One of her important commissions is the monumental mural for the Westlake Transit Station in downtown Seattle.

 

Mark Takamichi Miller

(b. 1960, Oklahoma)
Untitled, 1999
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 72 x 64 inches
Tacoma Art Museum, Gift of Ben and Aileen Krohn, 2002.16

Mark Takamichi Miller studied psychology and art at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and earned a master of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa in 1991. He arrived in Seattle in 1991 and quickly established himself in the arts community. His paintings earned him a place in Tacoma Art Museum's 8th Northwest Biennial, the 2001 Neddy Artist Fellowship in painting, and the Juror's Choice award for the 2000 Northwest Annual at the Bellevue Art Museum.

Kenjiro Nomura

(b. 1896, Gifuken, Japan; d. 1956, Seattle, Washington)
Puget Sound, circa 1933
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 19 5/8 x 23 3/4 inches
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril A. Spinola, 1992.8

Kenjiro Nomura immigrated to the United States in 1907 and became a well-respected and prolific artist. His solo exhibition was one of the first shows at the Seattle Art Museum when it opened in 1933, and he also exhibited work at such prestigious venues as the San Francisco Palace of the Legion of Honor and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. During World War II he was imprisoned with other Japanese-Americans at the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho but continued his career after the war ended.

Nomura captured the personality of Seattle's neighborhoods and scenery in representational images with a modernist edge.