Artwork copyright George Stillman. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2016.

Evening Gathering, 1983

George Stillman
(American, born 1921, died 1997)

Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Grapeview

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Evening Gathering is part of a series of landscape paintings by artist George Stillman that depict the rich colors and expressive forms of rural farmland.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Department of Transportation.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Artist George Stillman (1921-1997) created paintings, prints and photographs that expressively explored pure abstraction and figurative imagery.

George Stillman grew up in California and began working with photography as a teenager. He was drafted into military service in 1942 and served until 1945. After his discharge, Stillman opened a photography studio and used the G.I. Bill to study art at the California School of Fine Arts. He was a member of the Sausalito Six, a group of early Abstract Expressionist artists working in San Francisco in the late 1940s. Stillman worked in photography during the 1950s in Mexico, Brazil, and Bolivia. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (1968) and Master of Fine Arts degree (1970) from Arizona State University. In 1972, Stillman moved to Washington State where he taught at Central Washington State University in Ellensburg until his retirement in 1988. His artworks are in the collections of the British Museum, London, England; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C.