Mary Randlett

born Seattle, Washington, 1924; died Olympia, Washington, 2019

BiographyMary Randlett lived her entire life in the Puget Sound area. She taught herself photography working in the chemistry building’s darkroom at Whitman College in Walla Walla and apprenticing briefly with photographer Hans Jorgensen (1915-2003). Her work is in the collection of more than forty American museums including the Seattle Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and in more than 200 books and exhibition catalogues. She received numerous grants, awards, and citations including a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and in 1983, a Washington State Governor’s Award of Special Commendation for “unique contributions to the field.”

See the artist's obituary at: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/obituaries/mary-randlett-whose-photographs-chronicled-northwest-artists-and-landscapes-dies-at-94

[accessed Jan 2019]

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