Anne Focke (American, b. 1945)

Get up!

  • Date: 2013
  • Medium: Letterpress
  • Object Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (21.59 x 31.75 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2013.008
  • Photo Credit: Richard Nicol

Constant Troyon (French, 1810-1865)

Untitled

  • Date: 1860-65
  • Medium: Oil on linen
  • Object Dimensions: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Sylvia Clise Duryee, 2013.001
  • Photo Credit: Jueqian Fang

Helmi Dagmar Juvonen (American, 1903-1985)

Untitled [Uli figure from New Ireland, Melanesia, early 20th century]

  • Date: ca. 1967-68
  • Medium: Pencil and ink on paper
  • Object Dimensions: 17 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (43.82 x 33.66 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mary Lou and Donald B. Brown, Jr. in memory of the Music and Art Foundation, Seattle, 2013.006.
  • Photo Credit: Richard Nicol

American Unknown (American)

Untitled

  • Date: 19th century
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Object Dimensions: 30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of an anonymous donor, 2013.010
  • Photo Credit: Richard Nicol

Matt Browning (American, b. 1984)

Landscape #7

  • Date: 2012
  • Medium: Tree sap on handmade wood panel
  • Object Dimensions: 30 x 34 in. (76.2 x 86.36 cm)
  • Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 2014.001
  • Photo Credit: Jason Hirata

The Black Constellation (American, active Seattle)

Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes (American, b. 1977)

Juliana Meira do Valle (American)

Ode to Octavia: Cranium Adornment #5

  • Date: 2012
  • Medium: Composited bone, enamel, found goggles
  • Object Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 10 x 7 1/2 in. (46.99 x 25.4 x 19.05 cm)
  • Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by the Randolph Philip Koelsch Bequest, 2013.004.02
  • Photo Credit: Spike Mafford

The Black Constellation (American, active Seattle)

Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes (American, b. 1977)

Catherine Harris-White (American, b. 1986)

Stasia Irons (American, b. 1985)

Ode to Octavia: Neo-Ancient Taliswoman

  • Date: 2012
  • Medium: Incantation, repurposed bronze, brass, silver, stainless steel, rosewood, beechnut, abalone shell, ibex and dik-dik horn, precious and semiprecious stones, 1996 GMC truck key
  • Object Dimensions: 25 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (63.5 x 36.83 x 3.81 cm)
  • Credit Line: Purchased with funds partially provided by the Randolph Philip Koelsch Bequest, 2013.004.01
  • Photo Credit: Mark Woods

The Black Constellation (American, active Seattle)

Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes (American, b. 1977)

Ishmael Butler (American, b. 1969)

Tendai Maraire (American)

Ode to Octavia Part 12: (Sparkles)...Recollections of the Wraith

  • Date: 2012
  • Medium: Digital video (color, sound); 4:49 min.
  • Credit Line: Gift of The Black Constellation (Ishmael Butler, Tendai Maraire, Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Stasia Irons, Catherine Harris-White), 2013.005

Additional Images

Jeffry Mitchell (American, b. 1958)

Not Waving, but Drowning

  • Date: 2012
  • Medium: Glazed earthenware on artist-made wood pedestal
  • Object Dimensions: 42 1/2 x 15 x 33 in. (107.95 x 38.1 x 83.82 cm)
  • Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by The New Foundation Seattle, 2013.009
  • Photo Credit: Mark Woods

Leo Saul Berk (American, b. England, b. 1973)

Clinkers

  • Date: 2012
  • Medium: Duratrans on sculptural lightbox
  • Object Dimensions: 76 x 64 5/8 x 3 3/4 in. (193.04 x 164.15 x 9.53 cm)
  • Credit Line: Museum Purchase, 2013.002
  • Photo Credit: Spike Mafford
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