#and the museum northwest

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

John Everett Millais (1829-1896) "The North-West Passage" (1874) Oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite Located in the Tate Britain, London, England The painting depicts an elderly sailor sitting at a desk, with his daughter seated in a stool beside him. He stares out at the viewer, while she reads from a log-book. On the desk is a large chart depicting complex passageways between incompletely charted islands.

Millais exhibited the painting with the subtitle "It might be done and England should do it", a line imagined to be spoken by the aged sailor. The title and subtitle refer to the repeated failure of British expeditions to find the Northwest Passage, a navigable passageway around the north of the American continent. These expeditions "became synonymous with failure, adversity and death, with men and ships battling against hopeless odds in a frozen wilderness." The search for the northwest passage had been undertaken repeatedly since the voyages of Henry Hudson in the early 17th century. The most significant attempt was the 1845 expedition led by John Franklin, which had disappeared, apparently without trace. Subsequent expeditions had found evidence that Franklin's two ships had become stuck in ice, and that the crews had died over a number of years from various causes, some having made unsuccessful attempts to escape across the ice. These later expeditions were also unable to navigate a route between Canada and the Arctic. Millais had the idea for the painting when a new expedition to explore the passage, the British Arctic Expedition led by George Nares, was being prepared.

#paintings #art #artwork #genre painting #genre scene #john everett millais #oil on canvas #fine art #pre raphaelite #pre raphaelism #tate britain #museum #art gallery #history #art analysis #northwest passage #exploration #1870s #late 1800s #late 19th century #interior #clothing #clothes #male portrait #portrait of a man #female portrait #portrait of a woman #father and daughter

[eopederson2]

Totem pole, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2000.

#museum #totem #museum of anthropology #university of british columbia #vancouver #british columbia #canada #2000 #photographers on tumblr #pnw #pacific northwest

[clove-pinks]

Fort Meigs in Perrysburg, Ohio.

#fort meigs #war of 1812 #military history #ohio #historical reenactment #living history #old northwest #perrysburg #us army #dressed to kill #reuploading my fort meigs pictures in a better post #this place is so amazing there's a wonderful museum and gift shop #they sell many cool books and gifts #and they have the war of 1812-scented candle

[diorama-day]

Caribou and calf diorama at Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, NWT

#taxidermy #animal taxidermy #caribou #diorama #museum diorama #animal death #model making #scale model #northwest territories #tundra #fake flowers

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldFrogDay:

Frog bowl with copper overlay & abalone inlay

Pacific Northwest Coast, Tlingit, 19th c.

Wood, Copper alloy, Abalone, Fiber cord

14.5 x 21 x 25.5 cm (5 11/16 x 8 1/4 x 10 1/16 in.)

Harvard Peabody Museum 08-4-10/73135

#animals in art #animal holiday #museum visit #19th century art #Harvard Peabody Museum #frog #World Frog Day #effigy bowl #bowl #copper #wood #abalone #Tlingit art #Pacific Northwest Coast art #Indigenous art #First Nations art #Native American art #metalwork #woodwork #carving

[strixhaven]

everything possible ever happened in my dream last night

#vampires. molotov cocktails. discussions about how race and ethnicity are socially constructed. orville peck candle and water bottle. #the water bottle has a cowboy hat top. my brother deadnamed me to a girl on a train. the difficulty in trying to estimate sex and ethnicity #based off skeletons and how shovel-shaped incisors are more common amongst native folks from america and canada and parts of northwest #central and east asia. museum robbery but if the bag touches the ground you explode. so the vampires needed to make a bridge of corpses #strange creature wearing jingle bells because this was also all taking place in european town during christmas #there was so much more i’m not kidding when i say everything happened ever in the span of maybe 20 minutes #my assistant manager was there we had to mop too

[newmosbiusdesigns]

#Museum of Pop Culture #Seattle #Washington #Washington State #PNW #Pacific Northwest #Architecture #Travel

[summerofsam69]

#nature #spotify #oregon #instagram #asmr #ehlers danlos awareness #asmr tingles #barbie #birds #cool #eds #exercise #fitness #macabre #manzanita #mattel #museum #natural #ocean #pacific northwest #lana is god #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #lana del bae #lana del rey #lizzi grant #norman fucking rockwell #lizzy grant #lana unreleased #lizzie grant #honeymoon

[satashiiphotography]

Vancouver Anthropology Museum, Vancouver BC, Canada. October 2019. 

Photo credit @satashiiphotography

#iphone photos #Vancouver #pacific northwest #native art #anthropology museum #museum photography

[jesmcreates]

#train #pnw travel #pnw railway museum #historical train #my photography #jesmcreates #pnw photography #travel photography #pacific northwest #snoqualmie

[eopederson2]

Pacific Science Center, Seattle, 1980.

I have heard there is a proposal to fill in the pool and remove the fountains and use the space for outdoor displays. That would be a sad fate for the building, a jewel of the 1982 World's Fair!

#buildings #museums #minor yamasaki #pacific science center #seattle center #seattle #washington state #1980 #photographers on tumblr #pnw #pacific northwest

[allbeendonebefore]

looking outside these past couple days be like “is it cloudy or is it haze” and the haze is coming back : ) great. i had a bit of trouble breathing/fever after weeding in the garden for less than 20 minutes yesterday and the aqhi isn’t even that bad.

[tfw you spent all spring cautioning your friend in montreal not to visit during fire season and now you’re like Come Over, at least we have Less fire than you apparently]

#hi i Hate the New Normal etc #friendly reminder that this has been happening Every Year in western canada #the entire pacific northwest went up in flames the other year #but god forbid nyc miss a baseball game i s2g #remember to keep your windows closed and limit exposure as much as possible #try to go to somewhere with good ventilation or ac like a museum lobby if possible #masks will slightly mitigate things but remember they do not protect you from the gas #so be very very very careful outside and drink lots of water! #also try to avoid vacuuming or frying things if your house is like mine and traps air #every little bit to avoid indoor air pollution helps

[dynamoe]

digital sketch of George Tsutakawa's Obos No. 1. done in the airport on the way back from Seattle.

x-posted to Instagram

While in Seattle I saw, among other things, the George Tsutakawa retrospective "Language of Nature" at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (#BIMA)

#george tsutakawa #modernism #sculpture #northwest school #northwest modernism #bainbridge island museum of art #seattle #modern art #vector illustration #illustration #dyna moe #art #vintage #illustrator #adobe illustrator #japan

[arthistoryanimalia]

For when #OwlAwarenessDay falls on #FrogFriday (and #FabricFriday):

Button blanket with owls & frogs c. late 19th - early 20th c. Gitxsan culture (British Columbia, Canada) wool, cotton, shell, graphite 130 cm x 188.5 cm UBC Museum of Anthropology 3051/7

#UBC Museum of Anthropology #frog #frogs #owl #owls #bird #birds #birds in art #Frog Friday #Owl Awareness Day #animal holiday #animals in art #blanket #button blanket #textiles #textile art #Gitxsan art #Pacific Northwest Coast art #Indigenous art #Native American art #First Nations art #Canadian art #19th century art #20th century art

[paulpingminho]

#pacific northwest #Native America #Tsimshian #British Columbia #Canada #killer whale #National Museum of Natural History #Nagunak #Washington DC

[keiteay]

Suspension of disbelief

#pacific bonsai museum #bonsai #plants #nature #greenery #盆栽 #pnw #pacific northwest #upperleftusa #lensblr #photography #nature photography #original photography #photographers on tumblr #justgoshoot #pashadelic #tokyocameraclub #kei teay