University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
4219 (Accession No. 4219-003)
Utley, Windsor, 1920-1989
Windsor Utley
papers
1927-1990
.63 cubic feet (2 boxes)
Collection materials are
in English.
Papers of a
Seattle painter, gallery owner, and friend of painter Mark Tobey.
Windsor Utley (1920-1989) was a Seattle painter, a gallery owner, and
a friend of the painter Mark Tobey. He was born in Los Angeles in 1920 and
spent his early years concentrating on his musical studies in California. He
moved to Seattle during World War II. Although Windsor Utley has been
celebrated as a Northwest artist, he lived at times in California, Washington,
New York, Canada, and Italy. He exhibited his paintings extensively throughout
the United States and Canada.
Windsor Utley opened Utley's Art Galleries, first in Seattle in 1966
and in Victoria, British Columbia, during the 1970s. He moved the galleries to
Laguna Beach, California, in 1983 and re-opened Utley's Galleries in Seattle in
1987. Windsor Utley died in Seattle in 1989.
Utley's papers include correspondence, exhibit notices, exhibit lists
and catalogs, publications, reviews and other clippings, photographs, legal
documents, news releases, and lists and receipts, 1927-1990 (bulk
1945-1989).
Although Windsor Utley was an artist, musician, and teacher, most of
the materials in these papers concern his work and exhibits as a painter. The
only material concerning Windsor Utley's immediate family is a letter to his
grandmother (1927). Utley was a friend of Mark Tobey and corresponded with him
often. However, the Mark Tobey file consists primarily of clippings and does
not contain personal documents.
The papers are open to all users.
Request at UW
The creator's literary rights have been transferred to the University
of Washington Libraries.
Gift of Josephine Utley, Windsor Utley's widow, in June 1990 and
January 1991.
Two accessions were merged and processed in 1991.
Additional correspondence from Mark Tobey was donated to the
Smithsonian Institution.
Utley, Windsor, 1920-1989--Archives
Hallsten, Pehr, d. 1965
Tobey, Mark
Graham Art Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
Seattle Art Museum
Duveen-Graham (Gallery)
Painters--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives
Painting, American--20th century
Art--Collectors and collecting--United States
Art galleries, Commercial--New York (State)--New York
Art galleries, Commercial----Washington (State)--Seattle
Art museums--Washington (State)--Seattle
correspondence
exhibition catalogs
ephemera
Lists
Press releases
Legal documents
Photographs
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
Fine Arts
Seattle
British Columbia
Photographs
Incoming letters
1/1
Colescott, Robert and
Zdenka
1957
1/2
Duveen-Graham Gallery (New York
City)
1955-1958
1/3
Graham Gallery (New York
City)
1958-1960
1/4
Hallston, Pehr
1957-1965
1/5
Seattle Art Museum
1951-1965
1/6
Tobey, Mark
1957-1965
1/7
Allied Arts of
Seattle
1988
1/7
American Federation of
Arts
1955
1/7
Anderson, Frances
1957
1/7
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
(British Columbia)
1976
1/7
Art in America
1955
1/7
British Columbia, Provincial
Coordinator of Art
1974-1975
1/7
Camosun College (Victoria,
British Columbia)
1973
1/7
Chi Omega Alumnae
1956
1/7
DuPen, Everett and
Charlotte
1972
1/7
Gilkey, Gordon W.
1956
1/7
Graham, Colin
See: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
1/8
Hollesch, Carlo
1959
1/8
Los Angeles Art
Association
1954
1/8
Museum of Modern Art (New York
City)
1955-1956
1/8
Northwest Water Color
Society
1956
1/8
Oregon, Portland State
College
1955
1/8
Osver, Arthur
1952
1/8
Pike Place Farmers Market
Association
1964
1/8
Portland Art Museum
1955
1/8
Schneider, Joe
1959-1960
1/8
Seattle Municipal Art
Commission
1964
1/8
Seattle Public
Schools
1964
1/8
Tana, Emo
1957
1/8
University of Washington Henry
Gallery
1956
Outgoing letters
1/9
To grandmother, age 6
1927
1/10
Other
1957-1958
1/11
General correspondence
1988-1990
Regarding Utley's painting
Tribute to Beethoven.
1/12
Exhibition notices
1952-1989, undated
1/13-14
Exhibition lists and
catalogs
1945-1989, undated
1/15
Legal documents
1960
2/1
Publications
1955-1962
2/2
Poem
circa
1932
2/3
News releases
1974-1990
Lists
2/4
Artists Equity Association
membership list
1956
2/4
Auction from the private
collection of Mr. and Mrs. Windsor Utley
undated
2/5
Receipts
1955
2/6
Clippings
1940-1988, undated
Photographs
2/7
Children of Summit Art Class,
Bush School
1953
2/8
Miscellaneous
1945-1985, undated
Subject series: Mark
Tobey
2/9
Correspondence covers
1957-1964, undated
2/9
Miscellaneous
1951-1959, undated
2/10
Ephemera
1961,
undated
2/11
Duplicates
undated