Special Event
Renowned landscape photographer Mary Randlett, will discuss how her northwest painter friends have been an important inspiration behind her photography.
Exhibition Dates:
November 19, 2008 - November 19, 2008Involved Artists:
Mary Randlett
Featured Works
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Mary RandlettBird of Sea, La Push, June 1995Black and White Silver Gelatin Print
- 6.13"h
- 9.5"w
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Mary RandlettSun, Sea and Sand, March 1990Black and White Silver Gelatin Print
- 6.25"h
- 9.5"w
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Mary RandlettTidelines, Mud Bay, Olympia, September 1999 – FramedBlack and White Silver Gelatin Print, Framed
- 9.25"h
- 7.25"w
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Mary RandlettSelf Portrait, September 1988Black and White Silver Gelatin Print
- 6.25"h
- 3.38"w
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Mary RandlettSwan in Falling Snow, December 1984Black and White Gelatin Print
- 13.25"h
- 8.5"w
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Mary RandlettVeiled Mountain Near Mt. Baker, June 1996Black and White Silver Gelatin Print
- 5.5"h
- 9.5"w
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Mary RandlettBeach #2, La Push, December 2000Black and White Silver Gelatin Print
- 6"h
- 9"w
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Mary RandlettView of Rialto Beach from La Push, January 1986Black and White Silver Gelatin Print
- 9"h
- 13.25"w
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Mary RandlettNorth Cascades, April 1996Black and White Silver Gelatin Print
- 9"h
- 13"w
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Mary RandlettCannonball Island, Ozette, August 1978Black and White Silver Gelatin Print
- 11.75"h
- 9.5"w
SOLD

Mary Randlett has been photographing the Northwest for more than fifty-five years. She is considered one of the major figures in Northwest art. Her works are held in at least forty permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. Born in 1924, Mary’s career in photography has spanned a period of sixty-five years. At the age of ninety-two Mary can still be found spending long days in the dark room.
“Mary Randlett’s photographic vision of the Northwest is big-hearted, intricate, tender, and fully inhabited by the animals, tides, forests, mountains, and spirits that dwell there. What others may take for granted, Randlett sees as quintessential: overcast days with endless and often exquisite variations of gray clouds, raindrops on puddles, dripping branches, and distant shafts of sunlight breaking through the cloud cover. She is steeped in the history of the Northwest and its many art forms.
Mary’s images are a visual record of the Northwest at its most pristine and poetic. During her many years of finely tuned observation, Randlett has learned to take the time to ponder the essences of what she sees—the curl of a bird’s drifting feather, a water strider not quite breaking the surface of the water, fog ascending a hillside, the moment a pond’s surface turns to ice.”
-Excerpt from Mary Randlett: Landscapes, inside cover jacket, University of Washington Press, 2007.