Offering

• Title Offering
• Category Painting
• Medium Watercolor and gouache
• Medium Cubism, Pacific Northwest (subject or artist)
• Dimensions 21.75"h x 17"w
• Framed Dimensions 29.5"h x 24.5"w
• Year Completed undated
• Notes Sydney K. Eaton (1919-1996) dabbled in various art forms, from painting to sculpture to printmaking. Eaton was born in Bellingham, Washington. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Whitworth University in1941 and is notorious for being one of the pranksters behind the “Whitworth Rock Hoax.” This title refers to the discovery of a curiously inscribed rock in the excavations for the foundations of the Jay P. Graves Gymnasium. Written on the rock was the date 1703 and inscriptions that generated great attention which in turn generated a plan to have the rock sent to the Smithsonian. As attention to this potentially history changing rock grew, Sydney Eaton and two other students came forward to confess what they had done. After his time at Whitworth, Eaton was stationed in the North and South Pacific islands during World War 2 as the military believed his music experience would make him adept with foreign languages and communication. During his time on these islands, particularly on Papua New Guinea, he became interested in indigenous art. Back in Washington State in 1955, Eaton earned his Master of Arts degree from Washington State University only a year after he founded the art department at Skagit Valley College.
• Artist Sydney K. Eaton American Class of 1941 1919-1996
• Credit Carlson Collection
• Location Weyerhaeuser 202
• Accession Number 2000.0004
• Status Checked Out
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