List of public art in Seattle
Seattle, Washington, has more than 400 permanent pieces of public artwork throughout the city, supported by private collections and the municipal Percent for Art program, which directs one percent of funding for capital improvement projects into artwork.[1] In 2013, the collection's permanent and portable works were valued at a total of $39 million.[2]
Sculpture
- A Sound Garden (1982–1983), Douglas Hollis
- American Doughboy Bringing Home Victory (1932), Alonzo Victor Lewis
- Black Sun (1969), Isamu Noguchi
- Broken Obelisk, Barnett Newman
- Bust of Edvard Grieg, Finn Frolich
- Centennial Fountain (Seattle University)
- Changing Form
- Chief of the Suquamish – Chief Seattle (1909), James A. Wehn
- Dancer with Flat Hat, Phillip Levine
- Dancer's Series: Steps (1979), Jack Mackie and Charles Greening
- Dr. Mark A. Matthews (1941), Alonzo Victor Lewis
- The Electric Lady Studio Guitar, Daryl Smith
- The Emperor Has No Balls
- Fallen Firefighters Memorial (1998), Hai Ying Wu
- Farmer's Pole (1984)
- Fremont Rocket
- Fremont Troll (1990)
- Hammering Man (1991), Jonathan Borofsky
- Hat 'n' Boots
- Henry M. Jackson
- International Fountain
- Ivar Feeding the Gulls (1988)
- Jet Kiss (2015), Mike Ross
- Loo Wit
- Lundeberg Derby Monument
- Made in USA (2005), Michael Davis
- Nine Spaces Nine Trees
- Olympic Iliad
- Pioneer Square Totem Pole
- Prefontaine Fountain
- Sasquatch Pushing Over a House
- Seattle Cloud Cover
- Seattle Fishermen's Memorial
- Seattle George Monument
- Seattle Monolith
- Statue of Chief Seattle (1912), James Wehn
- Statue of Chris Cornell (2018), Seattle Center
- Statue of George Washington (1909), Lorado Taft
- Statue of John McGraw (1912), Richard E. Brooks
- Statue of Lenin
- Statue of Liberty
- Statue of William H. Seward
- Straight Shot (2007)
- Thomas Burke Monument
- Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae
- Typewriter Eraser, Scale X
- United Confederate Veterans Memorial
- Untitled (Kelly, 1975)
- Untitled (Shapiro, 1990), Seattle University[3]
- Untitled Totem Pole (1984)
- Waiting for the Interurban
- The Wall of Death
- Waterfront Fountain (1974)
- Waterworks
- Wind Cradle
Olympic Sculpture Park
The following artworks have been installed in Olympic Sculpture Park:
Murals
West Seattle has 11 outdoor murals that were created in the early 1990s and restored in 2018.[4][5]
References
- "Public Art". Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
- Upchurch, Michael (September 22, 2013). "State of the art: 10 great pieces of public art in Seattle". The Seattle Times. Retrieved April 9, 2018.
- Kelly, Amanda (April 19, 2012). "PLAYFUL AND PROFOUND SU'S NEWEST SCULPTURE JUSTICE (JUST ICE) IS A DELIGHT TO BEHOLD". Seattle University. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
- "Remembering Earl Cruzen, father of West Seattle's murals (and more), 1920-2017". West Seattle Blog. January 26, 2017. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
- Callanan, Brian (December 5, 2019). "Preserving History: West Seattle Murals". CityStream. Seattle Channel. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
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