DEALER SPECIALIZING IN NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN ART &
EARLY NORTHWEST PAINTINGS, PRINTS, PHOTOGRAPHY
artists
NORTHWEST FOUNDpossesses an ever-evolving inventory of quality late 19th- and early 20th-century paintings, prints, photography and Arts & Crafts period decorative arts produced in the Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Canada), as well as historic artwork produced by Native American Indian cultures.
We are actively purchasing and selling early Northwest art (below is a partial list of artists), as well as Native Americana in the following categories.Below is a small sampling of artworks that are currently or were previosuly owned by NORTHWEST FOUND.
WE PURCHASE ESTATE COLLECTIONS. Please contact us.
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For items currently available for purchase, please see the Offerings page.
NATIVE AMERICAN indian ARTS
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Northwest Coast
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Coast Salish
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Eskimo(Inuit/Yup'ik/Inupiaq
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Plateau
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Southwest
L O O K I N G TO B U Y :
Northwest Coast carved wood and arg​illite model totem poles, feast bowls, paddles, spoons and pipes
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Western Native American baskets, particularly those originating from Coast Salish, Plateau, Olympic Peninsula cultures of Washington. Also basketry from Alaska (Tlingit, Yup'ik and Inuipaq Eskimo, Attu/Aleut), Oregon, California and the Southwest of America, and Western Canada (Haida, Coast Salish).
Northern Northwest Coast (Tlingit, Tsimshian, Haida, Nuu-chah-nulth/Nootka) coin silver cuff bracelets and spoons
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Northern Northwest Coast (Tlingit, Haida) horn spoons
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Columbia River Plateau and Great Plains beadwork, including beaded bags, moccasins, leggings, arm cuffs, and gauntlets
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Native American textiles, including Northern Northwest Coast (Tlingit, Tsimshian, Haida) Chilkat robes or dance blankets, Navajo blankets and Navajo rugs, Rio Grande and Mexican saltillo sarapes and blankets
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Southwest Pueblo pottery of the Acoma, Laguna, Hopi, Zia, Zuni and Santa Domingo
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Alaskan Eskimo (Yup'ik, Nunivak Island Cup'ik, Inupiaq, Inuit) walrus ivory carved figures, cribbage boards and pipes, as well as coiled basketry works
Large NORTHERN NORTHWEST COAST HAIDA carved argillite model totem pole, measuring 18-1/2" in height. Interpretation of Charles Edenshaw's childhood house post in Masset, ca. 1870s - 1880s.
SOUTHERN COAST SALISH child's fully-imbricated berry picking basket, attributed to COWLITZ/NISQUALLY basketmaker NANCY JIM PARSONS, ca. late 19th century.
NORTHERN NORTHWEST COAST, likely KWAKWAKA'WAKW, hand-hammered coin silver cuff with finely etched formline design depicting a shark, dogfish or seabear, 19th century.
COWLITZ SOUTHERN COAST SALISH child's fully-imbricated berry basket, ca. late 19th century. Former Bruce Boyd Collection, Seattle.
Historic TLINGIT (Southwest Alaska) carved wood (big leaf maple) totem, depicting three vertically stacked figures--a crowning dogfish woman figure at top and a sculpin fish at the base. Scooped-out reverse. Ca. 1870s.
ACOMA PUEBLO (New Mexico) medium-sized polychrome pottery olla water jar, with marked flexure at the lower shoulder and painted in an overall pattern of crossing black bands and lozenge motifs.
HAIDA (Haida Gwaii Islands, B.C., Canada) finely twined cylindrical basket with brown-toned horizontal banding and fish-net raised skip-skitch rim decoration, 19th century.
PLAINS spontoon pipe tomahawk with tremendous patination and file-branding on the ashwood heft, ca. 1840s - 1850s. 24-1/4" L.
Very finely-woven plain twined spruce root TLINGIT Northern Northwest Coast lidded rattle top basket, with intricate false embroidery design in maidenhair fern and dyed grass, ca. first quarter 20th century.
SIBERIAN YUP'IK carved walrus ivory tobacco pipe with geometric compass designs scrimshawed around the entirety of the piece and pipe bowl, filled with red and black pigment. Late 19th century.
NAVAJO Transitional Blanket, woven in handspun wool, in natural ivory and dark brown, and aniline colors, with a series of stepped crosses alternating with small stepped lozenge motifs, ca. 1885.
NORTHWEST COAST, likely TLINGIT or HAIDA, polychrome painted carved cedar canoe dance paddle. The piece is intricately relief- carved on both sides in formline designs, with one side enhanced with matte green, red, and black pigments.
Antique medium-sized coiled Pacific Northwest KLICKITAT (ancestral lands north of the Columbia River in Washington State) coiled western red cedar berry basket, fully-imbricated with a unique polychrome diagonal and lozenge design. Western red cedar foundation with imbrication of dark brown/black (horsetail root), brown (cedar root) and white (bear grass). Circular start with flaring walls and circular opening, decorated with braided continuous top-looped rim. Late 19th century.
INUPIAQ or YUP'IK ESKIMO carved walrus ivory cribbage board, crafted in the shape of a salmon. Features intricate scrimshaw detail work, including a scrolling, low-lying tree and a walrus. 19th century.
Northwest Coast NUU-CHAH-NULTH (Nootka) twined flaring, chapeaux-style basketry rain hat with three twined multi-colored bands, ca. 1900.
PHOTOGRAPHerS
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Frank Kunishige
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Lomen Brothers
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Ella McBride
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Carl (Karl) Moon
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Myra Albert Wiggins
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Winter & Pond
We are additionally purchasing and selling orotone (goldtone) photographs and historic photographs depicting Native Americans.Please CLICK THROUGH to learn more about our interest in historic OROTONE (GOLDTONE) PHOTOGRAPHS.
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Wayne Albee
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James Bert Barton
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Case & Draper
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Asahel Curtis
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Edward S. Curtis
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Norman Edson
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Darius Kinsey
Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952), "Old Well at Acoma," orotone/goldtone photograph, Los Angeles, California Studio, ca. 1920s. 11" x 14" plate.
James Bert Barton, "Mirror Lake, Mt. Rainier," orotone/goldtone photograph, ca. 1917 - 1920s. 8" x 10" plate.
James Bert Barton, "Mirror Lake, Mt. Rainier," orotone/goldtone photograph, ca. 1917 - 1920s. 11" x 14" plate.
Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952), "Son of the Desert - Navajo," orotone/goldtone photograph, Seattle Studio, ca. 1917 - 1920s. 8" x 10" plate.
Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952), "Chief of the Desert - Navajo," quill-signed toned silver gelatin photograph, Seattle Studio, ca. 1904 - 1920. 6" x 8" image size.
Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952), "Em-Ah-Leih," toned platinum photograph mounted to deckled paper, Seattle Studio, ca. 1903 - 1906. 3" x 7" image size.
Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952), "The Piki Maker - Hopi," orotone/goldtone photograph, Seattle Studio, ca. 1917 - 1920s. 11" x 14" plate.
Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952), Hopi Maiden in Window, POP (printing out photograph)/Albumen, Seattle Studio, ca. 1903 - 1906.
Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952), "Evening on Mt. Rainier," orotone/goldtone photograph, Seattle Studio, ca. 1917. 11" x 14" plate.
Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952), Mammoth "Vanishing Race - Navajo," quill-signed toned platinum photograph, Seattle Studio, ca. 1904 - 1920s. 15" x 20" image.
Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952), "The Maid of Dreams," orotone/goldtone photograph, Seattle Studio, ca. 1917 - 1920s. 11" x 14" plate.
Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952), "Canyon de Chelly - Navajo," quill-signed toned platinum photograph, Seattle Studio, ca. 1904 - 1920s. 11" x 14" image.
Asahel Curtis (1874 - 1941), "Mt. Rainier Park with Lilies," (40199) orotone/goldtone photograph, ca. 1920. 11" x 14" plate.
Asahel Curtis (1874 - 1941), "Cattle in the Grand Coulee," (34608) orotone/goldtone photograph, ca. 1917. 11" x 14" plate.
Asahel Curtis (1874 - 1941), "Rainier National Park - On the Northern Pacific Railway," mammoth tinted silver gelatin photograph, ca. 1930s. 24" x 30" photograph. Created as a train station display for the Northern Pacific Railway.
Norman S. Edson (1876 - 1968), "Fish Story (Tulalip Indian Reservation)," hand tinted silver gelatin photograph, titled and ink-signed in margins, ca. 1905 -1908. 8" x 10" image.
Norman S. Edson (1876 - 1968), Puget Sound at Sunset, tinted orotone/goldtone photograph, ca. 1923 - 1930s. 8" x 10" plate.
Norman S. Edson (1876 - 1968), "Silver Dawn (Moonlight)," orotone/goldtone photograph, ca. 1923 - 1930s. 8" x 10" plate.
Norman S. Edson (1876 - 1968), "Trail to Paradise (Mt. Rainier)," orotone/goldtone photograph, ca. 1923 - 1930s. 11" x 14" plate.
Phillip Gibbs, Native Woman with Papoose (Oregon tribe), orotone/goldtone photograph, ca. 1920s. 11" x 14" plate.
Darius Kinsey (1869–1945), "8G. These Mature Douglas Fir Trees Are Part of Oldest and Largest Forest Area in America," tinted silver gelatin photograph, 1926. 11" x 14."
Lomen Brothers (Nome, Alaska), "Wegaruk (Inuit)," tinted silver gelatin photograph, ca. 1905. 8" x 10" image.
Lomen Brothers (Nome, Alaska), "Eskimo Child in Fur Parka in Mukluks (Inuit)," orotone/goldtone photograph, ca. 1917-1920. 8" x 10" image.
Arthur C. Pillsbury (1870–1946), "Sunshine through the Redwoods," (California), orotone/goldtone photograph, ca. 1920s. 11" x 14" plate.
PAINTERS
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Louis B. Akin
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Harriet Foster Beecher
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John Fery
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Edmond James Fitzgerald
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Edgar Forkner
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Sanford Robinson Gifford
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Robert Alexander Graham
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Paul Morgan Gustin
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Abby Williams Hill
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F. Mason Holmes
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Dorothy Dolph Jensen
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Frank Tenney Johnson
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Clyde Leon Keller
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Langdon Kihn
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Joe Knowles
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Theodore (Ted) Lambert
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Sydney Laurence
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Thayne Logan
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Charles C. McKim
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Kenjiro Nomura
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Ambrose Patterson
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George Douglas Pepper
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C. S. Price
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Theodore Richardson
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Cleveland Rockwell
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Albert Runquist
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Lionel Salmon
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Charles Hepburn Scott
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Jack Shadbolt
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William Posey Silva
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Clara Jane Stephens
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James Everett Stuart
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Fokko Tadama
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Kamekichi Tokita
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Elizabeth Warhanik
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Henry Wentz
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Edith Willey
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Melville T. Wire
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C. E. S. Wood
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Eustace Paul Ziegler
Jules B. Dahlager (1884–1952), Cordova, Alaska Landscape, oil painting on canvas in Newcomb Macklin gilt frame, 1926. 8" x 10" painting.
Jules B. Dahlager (1884–1952), Ketchikan, Alaska Landscape (possibly Mt. McKinley), oil painting on canvas in Newcomb Macklin gilt frame, 1929. 8" x 10" painting.
Jules B. Dahlager (1884–1952), Alpine Firs, Cordova, Alaska, oil painting on board, 1926. 6" x 8" painting. Housed in Lloyd Jensen gilt Arts & Crafts frame.
Jules B. Dahlager (1884–1952), Mt Mckinley, Alaska, oil painting on canvas in Lloyd Jensen carved and gilt frame, 1943. 10" x 12" painting.
Edmond James Fitzgerald (1912-1989), Alaskan Landscape, oil painting on board, ca. 1930s. 10" x 12."
Jacob A. Elshin (1892-1976), "Doomsday (Seattle)," WPA-era tempura painting on board, ca. 1930s.
Robert D. Genn (1936 - 2014, Canadian), Native Village, B.C., oil on canvas, ca. 1950-1960s.
Paul Morgan Gustin (1886 - 1974), "A Bend in the Road, Whidbey Island (Washington)," oil painting on canvas in gilt Newcomb Macklin frame, 1920. 22" x 30" painting.
Paul Morgan Gustin (1886 - 1974), "High Alpine Flowers on Mt. Rainier," watercolor painting, ca. 1920 - 1930s. 10-3/4" x 15" painting.
Z. Vanessa Helder, (1904-1968), Point Wilson Lighthouse near Port Townsend, WA, watercolor painting, ca. mid/late 1930s. 14-1/2" x 21-1/2" painting.
Dorothy Dolph Jensen (1895-1977), C.S. Holmes Logging Schooner in Lake Union, oil painting in Lloyd Jensen carved and gilt frame, ca. 1920 - 1930s. 12" x 16" painting.
Joseph "Joe" E. Knowles (1869-1942), Seaview, Oregon, oil painting on canvas, ca. 1921. 14" x 18" painting.
Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865-1940), Alaskan Mountain Landscape, watercolor painting, ca. 1920s. 9 - 1/4'' x 14-3/4'' painting.
Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865-1940), "The Guiding Light," oil painting on canvas, ca. 1920s. 8'' x 10" painting.
Lionel Salmon (1885 - 1945), Mt. Rainier, watercolor painting, ca. 1915 - 1920s.
James Everett (J. E.) Stuart (1852 - 1941), "Spring Canoes, Alaska," watercolor painting, 1891. 12" x 18" painting.
Fokko Tadama (1871-1937), "Squak Slough (Sammamish River, WA)," oil painting on board, 1915. 15" x 18" painting.
Elizabeth C. Warhanik (1880-1968), Seattle Waterfront, oil painting on board, ca. late 1920s. 4-1/2" x 6" painting.
Gunnar M. Widforss (1879 - 1934), Point Lobos, California, watercolor painting, ca. 1921. 10" x 15" painting.
Edith Willey (1891-1984), "Trees (Index, WA)," oil painting on canvas housed in Lloyd Jensen carved and gilt frame, ca. 1935. 10" x 14" painting.
Melville T. Wire (1877 - 1966), Oregon Autumn, oil painting on board, 1911. 9" x 11" painting.
Melville T. Wire (1877 - 1966), Scotch Broom (Oregon), oil painting on board, ca. 1920s. 10-1/2" x 14-1/2" painting.
Franz X. Zallinger (1894 - 1962), Mt. Rainier from Paradise Valley, oil painting on masonite, ca. 1930s. 11" x 14" painting.
Eustace Paul Ziegler (1881 - 1969), Alaskan Native with Children, oil painting on board housed in Newcomb Macklin frame, ca. 1920s. 10" x 12" painting.
PRINtMAKERS
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Elizabeth Colborne
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Arthur Wesley Dow
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Frances Gearhart
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May Gearhart
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Paul Morgan Gustin
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Helmi Juvonen
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Roi Partridge
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Ambrose Patterson
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Walter J. Phillips
Waldo Spore Chase (1895-1988), "Jervis Inlet (British Columbia, Canada)," color woodblock print, 1927. Waldo signed Ed Aardal's name onto the end of his signature. Aardal is considered to be one of Waldo's earliest artistic pupils.
Waldo Spore Chase (1895-1988), "Whither?," color woodblock print, 1932.
Waldo Spore Chase (1895-1988), "Land of the Great Spirit" (Indian Henry's, Mt. Rainier), color woodblock print, ca. 1929 - early 1930s.
Waldo Spore Chase (1895-1988), "Nomad," color woodblock print, ca. late 1920s - 1930s.
Waldo Spore Chase (1895-1988), "Clallam," color woodblock print, ca. late 1920s.
Wendell Corwin Chase (1897-1988), "Lake Louise" (Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada), color woodblock print, 1927.
Wendell Corwin Chase (1897-1988), "Mount Robson (Canadian Rockies)," color woodblock print, 1927. Noted "Made in U.S.A." in lower right margin.
Wendell Corwin Chase (1897-1988), "Mystic Night (Mt. Rainier)," color woodblock print, 1934.
Elizabeth Colborne (1885 - 1945), "In The Rain Forests of Washington," color woodblock print, ca. 1933.
Helmi Dagmar Juvonen (1903 - 1985), "Tlingit Mask," linocut print, ca. late 1940s - early 1950s.
Ambrose M. Patterson (1877 – 1967, Seattle, WA), Volcano Crater, Hawaii, color woodblock print, 1917.
NORMA BASSETT HALL (1889 –1957, American/Oregon), "Portree Bay," 1929, colored woodblock print.
Roi G. Partridge (1888-1984), "Shuksan (Mount Shuksan, Washington)," etching from copper plate, signed in plate and lower margin, 1927.
ARTS & CRAFTS DECORATIVE ARTS
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Benedict Studios
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J. Charles Burdick
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Dirk Van Erp
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Fulper
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George Ohr
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Grueby
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Gustav Stickley
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King Craft
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Klee Wyck (Emily Carr)
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Lillian Palmer
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Limbert
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L & JG Stickley
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Marblehead
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Myrtle Furniture Company
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Newcomb College
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Oregon Chair Company
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Pewabic
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Rookwood
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Roycroft
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Saturday Evening Girls
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Stickley Brothers
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Tiffany
ALBERT BERRY (1878 – 1949) hand-hammered copper vase from the Seattle, Washington BERRY'S ART & CRAFT SHOP, ca. 1918 - 1920s. An exceptional and distinct twisted form with a "warty" texture. Bears the Seattle "Berry's Art & Craft Shop" marking on the base.
EMILY CARR (Canadian, 1871-1945) studio ceramic KLEE WYCK miniature bentwood-box form vessel, ca. 1924/25-1930, hand-formed from Victoria, B.C. clay and hand-painted by Carr with Northwest Coast Native imagery of a Raven. Inscribed with Carr's signature on the underside, "KLEE WYCK ?".
TIFFANY STUDIOS (Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York, NY) Favrile glass urn-shaped vase of a luminous green iridescent body with an interior cased in opalescent white. Inscribed on base, "118 L L. C. Tiffany Favrile,"
GRUEBY POTTERY (American/ Boston, Massachusetts) thick, red clay body Arts & Crafts matt glazed ceramic tile trivet decorated in cuerda seca with seagull design, ca. 1910s.
NEWCOMB COLLEGE POTTERY (New Orleans, Louisiana) large Arts & Crafts-era vase carved with Spanish moss-covered trees and a glowing moon. Crafted by Jonathan Hunt and decorated by famed artisan Sadie (Sarah) Irvine (1902 - 1929, student + art craftsman).
Large ALBERT BERRY (1878 – 1949) hand-hammered copper tray from the Seattle, Washington BERRY'S ART & CRAFT SHOP, ca. 1918 - 1920s. Decorated with reindeer antler. Bears the Seattle "Berry's Art & Craft Shop" marking on the base.
small-scaled 1905 ROSE FECHHEIMER (1874 - 1961) ROOKWOOD ART POTTERY (American/Ohio) vase finished with mat mottled green and speckled plum-colored vellum glaze, finely incised with two clusters of purple grapes near the rim.
NEWCOMB COLLEGE POTTERY (New Orleans, Louisiana) shallow Arts & Crafts-era vase by Anna Frances Simpson deeply carved with white flowers surrounding the rim, ca. 1910 - 1914.
GRUEBY POTTERY (American/ Boston, Massachusetts) cylindrical art pottery vase of tapering form, with a thick, curdled matt green glaze, ca. 1904 - 1905.
