Last updated: 3/8/2012
Univ. Of Washington15th Ave NE & 41st StSeattle, WA 98195
PO Box 351410Seattle, WA 98195
Thursday - Friday
11 AM - 9 PM
Sunday, Saturday
11 AM - 4 AM
$10: General
$6: Seniors (62+)
Free: Henry members; UW students, faculty, and staff with ID; high school & college students with ID; children 13 years and under, first Thursdays.
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The art museum of the University of Washington, recognized for special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. Collection of 18,000+ objects includes 19th-20th century paintings, photography, works on paper, and extensive textiles and costumes.
Since its founding in 1927, the Henry Art Gallery has served the Pacific Northwest as a pioneer in bringing contemporary art and ideas to the region. The Henry is a hub for audiences of all ages to experience the discovery, wonder, and surprise that contemporary art, artists, and ideas provide. The Henry staff, board, and community are committed to taking risks, and fostering dialogue and debate. Exhibitions, collections, and public programs at the Henry stimulate research and teaching at the University of Washington, provide a creative wellspring for artists, students, and educators, and reveal a record of modern artistic inquiry from the advent of photography in the mid-19th century to the multidisciplinary art and design of the 21st century.
The collecting activities of the Henry Art Gallery began in 1926 when Horace C. Henry offered 172 works of art and $97,000 to the University of Washington to construct the first public art museum in Seattle. The Henry’s fine art collections have grown through subsequent donations, notably with significant gifts of prints in the 1970s and the establishment of the Monsen Photography collection in 1979. The construction of the Reed Gallery in 1980, the antecedent of the present Reed Collection Study Center, allowed increased access to collections by students, professors, and outside scholars. Recent collecting activities have focused on acquiring works representing developments in contemporary art, particularly in the areas of photography, new media, and installation art. The Henry’s permanent collection includes over 24,000 objects.
The Henry Art Gallery collection also includes the extensive holdings of the University of Washington’s former Costume and Textile Study Center, transferred to the Henry Art Gallery in 1982. This unique regional resource focuses on design and process.
The Joseph and Elaine Monsen Collection of Photography
A growing collection of contemporary works on paper
The Horace C. Henry Collection of 19th century landscape paintings
The Stimson-Bullitt Collection of 19th century prints
The Elizabeth Bayley Willis and Robert Sperry Collection of Japanese folk pottery and West Coast ceramics
The Thomas and Frances Blakemore Collection of Japanese prints and ceramics
The William and Ruth True Collection of contemporary art
Programs, special events, tours, and resources at the Henry can open your mind to new ideas, creative thinking, and challenging exhibitions. Learn to interpret the world in new ways. Students can take advantage of free admission to the galleries, student membership, and UW Students can participate in the Student / Henry Advisory Group (SHAG).
The Henry offers and resources, and special events for K-12 and University level educators, plus educational programs and events that are open to the general public.
Curriculum Guides: http://www.henryart.org/guides
Events for Teachers: http://www.henryart.org/teachers
Tours: http://www.henryart.org/tours
Programs and Events: http://www.henryart.org/events
Designed by David Knowles
Matthew Offenbacher’s The Gift Shop with orange risograph prints is layered on black and white images of work 2009-2010 multi-artist exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery’s former museum shop. Matthew Offenbacher asks the questions: What can an art exhibition do? How can artists work together? Who is the audience for an art exhibition? What responsibilities do artists have towards their audience? What responsibilites do audiences have? What is the relationship between artists and the institutions who support them? What can we learn from each other?
“Museum gift shops are fabulously liminal places. They sit in the middle of a complex web of transitional space, shifting methods of discourse, utopian and practical considerations, different understandings and misunderstanding of the purpose and function of art.”
The Gift Shop was published by Publication Studio.
$25 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook
92 pp.
8/5″ × 8.5″ × 0.25″
ISBN: 9781935662730
Designed by Jayme Yen
With visual art, philosophy, quantum physics, and the help of engineers and astrophysicists Lucy Pullen created The Cloud Chamber and The Spark Chamber. When a cosmic ray enters The Cloud Chamber a contrail is created and when a cosmic ray enters The Spark Chamber a spark is ignited. Marks and Angles is Lucy Pullen’s book created in conjunction with her 2009 exhibition The Cloud Chamber and Related Works published by Publication Studio. It is bound in reflective mirror dust paper and there is a hole punched through the entire book.
$40 soft cover; $10 DRM-free ebook
130 pp.
9″ × 7.75″ × 0.25″
ISBN: 9781935662686
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