Artist	Morris, Stuart
Title	Reference room
Description	A drawing of a scene from one of the previous Central branches of The Seattle Public Library which was a building funded by Andrew Carnegie who was a great benefactor for urban libraries in the early decades of the 1900's. This image depicts the reference room.
Biographical Notes	Stuart Morris was born in West Virginia in 1882 (?) and studied art in Columbus, Ohio and Philadelphia. He came to Seattle and became art editor for the Seattle P.I. where he was on the staff for nearly 20 years. When he retired in 1928, he was working on the editorial staff of the Times. He is famous for two sketches. One was of the ex-president Theodore Roosevelt which appeared in the paper the day after the president's death in 1919. The other famous sketch was of an old Catholic church on Denny Hill. Both images were requested by people from all over the country for many years.
Date	1918?
Decade	1910-1919
Subjects (LCSH)	Arts, American -- Northwest, Pacific -- 20th century. Morris, Stuart Pen drawing. Reading rooms. Public libraries.
Medium/Technique	Ink on paper
Image Measurements	10 x 12 1/2 inches
Object Type	Drawings
Identifier	art_M831Re
Digital Format	image/jp2
Digitization Specifications	72,909,940 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
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Item Type	Artworks