Indian Summers: Washington State College and the Nespelem Art Colony, 1937-41
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Indian Summers: Washington State College and the Nespelem Art Colony, 1937-41 Overview
The aged ranks of eastern Washington's old-time warriors and women of the chief Joseph band of Nez Perce, Chief Moses' Sinkiuse, and the San Poil-Nespelem, Yakima, Palouse, and other tribes were rapidly dimishing in the late 1930s. To compile an artistic and historical record of these people and their modern-day descendants, Washington State College established the Nespelem Art Colony.
In summer sessions from 1937 to 1941, students and instructors took up residence in and around Nespelem, the headquarters of the Colville Confederated Tribes in north-central Washington. It was a colony in the true sense of the word, producing a prodigious amount of regional art. Close friendships developed between the artists and their subjects. During the eight-week sessions, some artists took quarters in Indian houses while others slept in motels in Nespelem and nearby Grand Coulee.
WSC's Art Department came of age during this period and was recognized as a grand addition to the college (now Washington State University). Well-known WSU artists - including Worth Griffin, Clyfford Still, George Laisner, and Glenn Wessels - spent their formative years at the college and served as instructors at Nespelem.
The origins of the Nespelem colony grew out of the American Scene movement of the 1930s. After 1941, it and other thriving art colonies across the nation generally were forced to close due to the outbreak of World War II.
Creighton has compiled a compelling and extensively illustrated account of Washington State College's special summer sessions and the art department in this period. Also included are first-hand reminiscences by Ruth Kelsy and Anne Harder Wyatt, former students at the colony.
