 | When Seattle sculptor Everett Du Pen died in 2005 after a career that spanned almost eight decades, he left behind a huge body of work, much of which remained in his own collection. Now the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner has mounted a retrospective of his career, and KUOW art critic, Gary Faigin, finds it a somewhat jumbled presentation of an under-appreciated local artist. When the Seattle City Council was searching for a site for a new skateboard park at Seattle Center, their first idea was to replace a very period fountain from the 1962 World’s Fair near the center of the campus called the Fountain of Creation. The hue and cry that arose from the art community and other concerned citizens quickly led to a change of heart on the part of the authorities, but it was also a reminder that the sculptor of that fountain, longtime UW professor Everett DuPen, had fallen off the radar of regional awareness. |
