Wesley Wehr

born Everett, Washington, 1929; died Seattle, Washington, 2004

BiographyWes Wehr was an artist, composer, writer and paleontologist, a man of many interests who also was a patron of numerous regional artists. He lived as simply as possible so he could donate his time and material goods to the people and studies he believed in. Wehr studied music at the University of Washington in the 1940s. One of his piano students was the artist Mark Tobey. They became friends and Tobey introduced him to the rest of his circle as well as a wide community of Northwest artists. Wehr eventually began to experiment with art himself and became known as a painter of small abstracted landscapes. He later wrote the book The Eighth Lively Art: Conversations with Painters, Poets, Musicians and the Wicked Witch of the West about the Seattle art community. Wehr also was a poet and an affiliate curator at the Burke Museum winning awards for his paleontology work.

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http://old.seattletimes.com/html/obituaries/2001904963_wehrobit16m.html

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