At the turn of the 20th century, Seattle, founded in 1885, was a city that was going on 15 years old. Young Seattle was growing at a fast clip, showing no signs of slowing down. Early Seattle leaders had the foresight to conserve land for the purpose of current as well as future generations to enjoy. Fortunately, these leaders decided to create a parks system in Seattle. They hired notable landscape architects, the Olmsted Brothers, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and John Charles Olmsted to develop the master plans for Seattle’s nascent parks system.
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Work in Progress. Oil sketch, Volunteer Park. View from south lily pad pond looking north. “Black Sun” is on the right. Oil on Canvas, 8x10.” 2021. I have the painting sitting in an antique frame for now.
A Sense of Place
I made a few sketches of an area of the park in front of the Seattle Asian Art Museum where there are two ponds of lily pads. Towering above in the center, the monumental "Black Sun" black granite sculpture created in 1969 by Japanese/American sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
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