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List of public artworks in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Bust of Edvard Grieg
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.
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Sculpture
Centennial Fountain
Historic Chinatown Gate
Rachel
Statue of Chief Seattle
Statue of Liberty
Waterfront Fountain
A Sound Garden (1982–1983), Douglas Hollis
Adam
Adjacent, Against, Upon (1976)
American Doughboy Bringing Home Victory (1932),
Alonzo Victor Lewis
Angie's Umbrella (2003)
Birthplace of Seattle Monument (1905)
Black Lightning
Black Sun (1969),
Isamu Noguchi
Broken Obelisk ,
Barnett Newman
Bust of Edvard Grieg ,
Finn Frolich
Bust of James J. Hill
Bust of Mark A. Matthews (1941),
Alonzo Victor Lewis
Centennial Fountain
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
The Electric Lady Studio Guitar , Daryl Smith
The Emperor Has No Balls
Fallen Firefighters Memorial (1998),
Hai Ying Wu
Farmer's Pole (1984)
Fountain of Creation
Fountain of Reflection
Fountain of the Northwest
Fountain of Wisdom
Fremont Rocket
Fremont Troll (1990)
Grass Blades (2002)
Hammering Man (1991),
Jonathan Borofsky
Hat 'n' Boots
Henry M. Jackson
Historic Chinatown Gate
Homeless Jesus
Impatient Optimist
International Fountain
Ivar Feeding the Gulls (1988)
Jet Kiss (2015),
Mike Ross
Joshua Green Fountain
Kobe Bell
Lady Rainier
Loo Wit
Lundeberg Derby Monument
Made in USA (2005), Michael Davis
Mirall (2015)
The Mitt (1999), T-Mobile Park
Moses (2/3) , Tony Smith
Moss Turtle (2021), Michiko Tanaka
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Naramore Fountain
Nine Spaces Nine Trees
Olympic Iliad
Pioneer Square totem pole
Prefontaine Fountain
Rachel
The Red Popsicle (2011)
Statue of
Sadako Sasaki ,
Peace Park
Sasquatch Pushing Over a House
Seattle Center Totem (1970)
Seattle Fishermen's Memorial
Seattle Garden (1988) by Ann Sperry
Seattle George Monument
Seattle Monolith
Shear Draft (1995)
Sonic Bloom (2013), Dan Corson
Soul Pole
Statue of Chief Seattle (1912), James Wehn
Statue of Chris Cornell (2018), Seattle Center
Statue of Christopher Columbus
Statue of Don James
Statue of George Washington (1909),
Lorado Taft
Statue of Jim Owens
Statue of John McGraw (1912),
Richard E. Brooks
Statue of Leif Erikson
Statue of Lenin
Statue of Liberty
Statue of Sun Yat-sen
Statue of William H. Seward
Straight Shot (2007)
Thomas Burke Monument
Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae
Typewriter Eraser, Scale X
United Confederate Veterans Memorial
Untitled (Lee Kelly, 1975)
Untitled (Shapiro, 1990) , Seattle University
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Untitled Totem Pole (1984)
Urban Garden
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.
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Black Lives Matter street murals were painted in
Capitol Hill and outside
Seattle City Hall in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
The People's Wall is located in the city's Central District. A "whaling wall" by
Robert Wyland has been painted on the exterior of
The Edgewater .
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See also
References
^
"Public Art" . Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
Archived from the original on April 10, 2018. Retrieved April 9, 2018 .
^ Upchurch, Michael (September 22, 2013).
"State of the art: 10 great pieces of public art in Seattle" .
The Seattle Times .
Archived from the original on April 10, 2018. Retrieved April 9, 2018 .
^
"The Fremont Troll gets company this Earth Day – meet the Moss Turtle, designed by artist Michiko Tanaka" . 22 April 2021.
^ Kelly, Amanda (April 19, 2012).
"PLAYFUL AND PROFOUND SU'S NEWEST SCULPTURE JUSTICE (JUST ICE) IS A DELIGHT TO BEHOLD" .
Seattle University .
Archived from the original on April 8, 2018. Retrieved April 7, 2018 .
^
"Remembering Earl Cruzen, father of West Seattle's murals (and more), 1920-2017" . West Seattle Blog . January 26, 2017.
Archived from the original on December 6, 2019. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
^ Callanan, Brian (December 5, 2019).
"Preserving History: West Seattle Murals" . CityStream .
Seattle Channel .
Archived from the original on December 18, 2019. Retrieved December 5, 2019 .
^
"The artist Wyland and his "whaling walls" - CBS News" . www.cbsnews.com . 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2024-02-07 .
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"Orcas swim again on Seattle's Edgewater Hotel, thanks to artist Wyland" . The Seattle Times . 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2024-02-07 .
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