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Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection is co-organized by Portland Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and the Paul G. Allen Family Collection. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

Special exhibitions at SAM are made possible by donors to
SAM Fund for Special Exhibitions

Presenting Sponsors
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Major Sponsor
Christie’s

Supporting Sponsor
Perkins Coie LLP

Generous Support
Kreielsheimer Exhibition Endowment
Mary and Dean Thornton Endowment
Seattle Art Museum Supporters (SAMS)

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Images: Grand Canyon of Arizona at Sunset, 1909, Thomas Moran, American, born England, 1837–1926, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection. Eruption of Mount Vesuvius with the Ponte della Maddalena in the Distance, ca. 1770, Pierre-Jacques Volaire, French, 1729–1799, oil on canvas, 48 x 67 ¾ in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection. Ruins in the Campagna di Roma, Morning, 1842, Thomas Cole, American, born England, 1801–1848, oil on panel, 14 ½ x 24 in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection. View in Venice–The Grand Canal, 1874, Edouard Manet, French, 1832–1883, oil on canvas, 22 9/16 x 18 3/4 in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection. The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast from San Stae to the Fabbriche Nuove di Rialto, ca. 1738, Canaletto, Italian, 1697–1768, oil on canvas, 18 1/2 x 30 5/8 in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection. Spring Ploughing, ca. 1940, Thomas Hart Benton, American, 1889–1975, oil on canvas mounted on wood panel, 22 3/8 x 30 ¼ in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection, Art © T.H. Benton and R.P. Benton Testamentary Trusts/UMB Bank Trustee/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Untitled, 1989, Ed Ruscha, American, born 1937, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 112 in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection, © Ed Ruscha, Courtesy Gagosian. Morning Calm, Concarneau, Opus 219 (Larghetto), 1891, Paul Signac, French, 1863–1935, oil on canvas, 26 x 32 1/8 in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection. Depositing of John Bellini's Three Pictures in La Chiesa Redentore, Venice, 1841, Joseph Mallord William Turner, British, 1775–1851, oil on canvas, 29 x 45 1/2 in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection. Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1889–90, Paul Cézanne, French, 1839–1906, oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection. Birch Forest, 1903, Gustav Klimt, Austrian, 1862-1918, oil on canvas, 43 1/4 x 43 1/4 in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection. A Large Picture that Represents a Landscape, 1927, Yves Tanguy, French, 1900–1955, oil on canvas, 45 7/8 x 35 ¾ in., Paul G. Allen Family Collection, © 2017 Estate of Yves Tanguy / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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