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Artist	Juvonen, Helmi, 1903-1985
Title	Kwakiutl dance masks (dry brush technique)
Description	A drawing done in the dry brush technique depicting four Kwakiutl masks used in dance ceremonies.
Biographical Notes	Helmi Juvonen was born in Butte, Montana on January 17, 1903. She worked in many media including printmaking, painting and paper-craft. She attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where she met artist Mark Tobey with whom she was famously obsessed. Although she was diagnosed as a manic-depressive in 1930, she gained wide appreciation in the Northwest for her linocut prints depicting Northwest Indian people and tribal ceremonies. She worked with a number of artists on the Public Works of Art Project including Fay Chong and Morris Graves. Over the years, her mental health deteriorated and in 1960 she was declared a ward of the state and was committed to Oakhurst Convalescent Center. She was much beloved and had many friends and benefactors (including Wes Wehr) and was able to have exhibitions despite the confinement. She died in 1985.
Date	1949?
Decade	1940-1949
Subjects (LCSH)	Arts, American -- Northwest, Pacific -- 20th century. Juvonen, Helmi, 1903-1985 Women artists. Northwest School of artists. Indians of North America. Kwakiutl masks.
Medium/Technique	Dry brush on paper
Image Measurements	19 x 13 1/2 inches
Object Type	Paintings
Type	Still Image
Notes from Object	On verso: Juvonen, Helmi, Kwakiutl dance masks, (gift of?) artist 9-6-49"
Identifier	art_J989Kw
Digital Format	image/jp2
Digitization Specifications	72,695,404 bytes (working master file). Image capture by IO Color using a 25 mp camera (Sony A900 DSLR). Resized using Adobe Photoshop CS to 4000 pixels along the long dimension.
Contributing Institution	The Seattle Public Library
Collection	The Seattle Public Library Northwest Art Collection
Rights and Reproduction Information	For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights