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American art and the Seattle Art Museum.(A sense of place)

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When and where the Seattle Art Museum was founded greatly shaped its collecting of American art--far from the art centers of the East Coast and comparatively late in this slowly developing city on the Pacific Northwest frontier. Long a student of Asian art, which his mother had also avidly collected, the museum's founding director, Richard E. Fuller (see p. 104, Fig. 7), wanted the new museum to focus on Asian art. With its collecting underwritten entirely by his family's fortunes (his parents both had significant family wealth, and his lather was a prominent urological surgeon in New York), he understandably pursued his passion. spurred on by his uncommon sense of an ...

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