Northwest Found

Northwest Found NORTHWEST FOUND, based in Seattle, WA, actively purchases and sells quality early Northwest artwork and antique Native American Indian art.

A passion for early Pacific Northwest artwork and historic Native Americana drives our livelihood. NORTHWEST FOUND, based in Seattle, WA, actively purchases and sells quality paintings, prints, vintage photography and Arts & Crafts period decorative arts produced in Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Canada during the late 19th- and early 20th- centuries, as well as a fine examples of 19th - and early 20th- century Native American Indian art and material culture.

// NEW OFFERING // Rare original SIGNED watercolor painting by famed Seattle, Washington artist PAUL MORGAN GUSTIN (1886...
08/29/2021

// NEW OFFERING // Rare original SIGNED watercolor painting by famed Seattle, Washington artist PAUL MORGAN GUSTIN (1886- 1974, American/Washington + Canada) depicting wood nymph wildflowers, signed and dated 1950 lower right corner. Framed in a mid-century white washed wood frame. Watercolor measures 8-3/4" L x 6-1/2" W, overall including frame 18" L x 15" W.

// NEW OFFERING // Intricate antique medium-sized coiled Western Washington PUGET SOUND COAST SALISH Native American ful...
08/22/2021

// NEW OFFERING // Intricate antique medium-sized coiled Western Washington PUGET SOUND COAST SALISH Native American fully-imbricated western red cedar berry basket with a polychrome stepped "snake" design in dark brown (mud-dyed western red cedar bark) and red (western red cedar bark) against a beautifully yellowed white (beargrass) ground, ca. 1900. Circular base with flaring walls, decorated with braided rim. Measures 7-1/2" H x 7-1/2" W (rim) x 7-1/4" D (rim).

// NEW OFFERING // Antique Haida Northwest Coast First Nations hammered coin silver cuff bracelet, the expanding convex ...
08/14/2021

// NEW OFFERING // Antique Haida Northwest Coast First Nations hammered coin silver cuff bracelet, the expanding convex band with shallowly-engraved formline linework depicting a Sea Bear. Hinged catch, late 19th century. Measures 1-1/2" H (center) x 2-1/4" W. Inner circumference 7" when clasped.

Antique Haida Northwest Coast First Nations hammered coin silver cuff bracelet, the expanding convex band with shallowly-engraved formline linework depicting a Sea Bear. Hinged catch, late 19th century. Measures 1-1/2" H (center) x 2-1/4" W. Inner circumference 7" when clasped.

// NEW OFFERING // Exceptional early NORMAN TAIT ( , 1941 - 2016)   hand-carved alder wood "Frog Spirit" mask, polychrom...
07/31/2021

// NEW OFFERING // Exceptional early NORMAN TAIT ( , 1941 - 2016) hand-carved alder wood "Frog Spirit" mask, polychrome painted with black horsehair and western red cedar bark plumage, 1989. Measures 18-3/4” H (including hair and fringe) x 14" W (including hair and fringe) x 6" D.

// NEW OFFERING // Wonderful Elsie Thomas (attrib.) (1910 - 2007) KLICKITAT Native American (COLUMBIA RIVER PLATEAU) med...
07/24/2021

// NEW OFFERING // Wonderful Elsie Thomas (attrib.) (1910 - 2007) KLICKITAT Native American (COLUMBIA RIVER PLATEAU) medium-sized coiled fully-imbricated western red cedar root cone-shaped berry basket with a polychrome repeating vee "mountain" pattern encircling the basketry body, accented with isolated diamond-shaped motifs, ca. 1940s. Imbrication executed in brown mud-dyed cedar bark and red-dyed cedar bark against a white beargrass ground. Design bookended by single-row of dark brown below rim and above base. Continuous top loop rim. Measures 8-1/4" H x 7-1/2" Dia. (rim).

Wonderful Elsie Thomas (attrib.) (1910 - 2007) KLICKITAT Native American (COLUMBIA RIVER PLATEAU) medium-sized coiled fully-imbricated western red cedar root cone-shaped berry basket with a polychrome repeating vee "mountain" pattern encircling the basketry body, accented with isolated diamond-shape...

// NEW OFFERING // Asking $3,500Exceptional antique Columbia River Plateau Native American flat rectangular beaded bag, ...
07/10/2021

// NEW OFFERING // Asking $3,500
Exceptional antique Columbia River Plateau Native American flat rectangular beaded bag, with white galloping horse framed by floral motifs against a robin's egg blue beaded ground, dated 1914 along the top edge of the bag in transulent gold seed beads. Edged in Native-tanned hide, with original printed calico cloth lining on interior (back panel) and red trade cloth backing.

Exceptional antique Columbia River Plateau Native American flat rectangular beaded bag, with white galloping horse framed by floral motifs against a robin's egg blue beaded ground, dated 1914 along the top edge of the bag in transulent gold seed beads. Edged in Native-tanned hide, with original prin...

N E W // Incredible pair of   Seattle - Studio hand-hammered     bookends with   ice ax segments crafted from fossilized...
07/07/2019

N E W // Incredible pair of Seattle - Studio hand-hammered bookends with ice ax segments crafted from fossilized walrus ivory tusks. Features unique inscription on verso by Berry indicating origin of ivory. //

// NEW OFFERING // Original BLIND STAMPED antique sepia-toned platinum photograph by famed Seattle, Washington photograp...
02/16/2019

// NEW OFFERING // Original BLIND STAMPED antique sepia-toned platinum photograph by famed Seattle, Washington photographer EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868 - 1952, American/Washington + Californian), titled "Spirit of the Past - Apsaroke." Seattle, Washington Studio, 1908. The photograph includes Curtis' copyright blindstamp and negative number (615 - 08) in the lower left corner. Framed in a period Arts & Crafts quarter-sawn or "tiger" oak frame.

he visible photographic image measures approximately 12-1/2" x 9-1/2," and overall the piece measures approximately 18-3/4" x 15-1/4" including the frame.

// NEW OFFERING // Original SIGNED antique sepia-toned platinum photograph by famed Seattle, Washington photographer EDW...
02/16/2019

// NEW OFFERING // Original SIGNED antique sepia-toned platinum photograph by famed Seattle, Washington photographer EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868 - 1952, American/Washington + Californian), titled "Oasis in the Badlands - Sioux." Seattle, Washington Studio, 1905. The photograph is signed within in the image in the bottom right corner in black quill ink, and includes Curtis' copyright blindstamp and negative number (616 - 05) in the lower left corner. Framed in a period Arts & Crafts quarter-sawn or "tiger" oak frame.

The visible photographic image measures approximately 9" x 12," and overall the piece measures approximately 15" x 18" including the frame.

Pleased to have our rare "Si Wa Wata Wa"   photographic print by   included within the Seattle Art Museum 's new exhibit...
06/14/2018

Pleased to have our rare "Si Wa Wata Wa" photographic print by included within the Seattle Art Museum 's new exhibition, "Double Exposure: Edward S. Curtis, Marianne Nicolson, Tracy Rector, Will Wilson." The exhibition will be open to all beginning this Thursday, and run through September 9th!

Edward S. Curtis, "Si Wa Wata Wa - ," ca. 1904 - 1906. Gum-bichromate photographic print on textured paper. 14" x 11."

// S O L D // Original SIGNED antique sepia-toned platinum photograph by famed Seattle, Washington photographer EDWARD S...
05/14/2018

// S O L D // Original SIGNED antique sepia-toned platinum photograph by famed Seattle, Washington photographer EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868 - 1952, American/Washington + Californian), titled "Blood Lodge (Blackfoot)." Seattle, Washington Studio, ca. 1917 - early 1920s. The photograph is double mounted in an exhibition style on deckled paper and signed in brown ink by the artist in bottom right corner, and signed within in the image in the bottom left corner along with the negative number X642. //

// S O L D // Intricate antique medium-sized coiled Western Washington COWLITZ SOUTHERN COAST SALISH Native American ful...
05/05/2018

// S O L D // Intricate antique medium-sized coiled Western Washington COWLITZ SOUTHERN COAST SALISH Native American fully-imbricated western red cedar berry basket with a polychrome repeating vee design known as the "salmon gill" pattern encircling the basketry body, accented with isolated "hands or fingers" motifs. Imbrication executed in cedar bark, mud-dyed cedar bark, yellow-dyed beargrass, and white beargrass. Oval start decorated with white beargrass "beading," with flaring walls and circular opening, with below-rim Cowlitz-style top loops accented with polychrome twisted "barberpole." Circa 1900.

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