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===World of Art=== [[File:IngresOdipusAndSphinx.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres|Ingres]]' ''[[Oedipus and the Sphinx (Ingres)|Oedipus and the Sphinx]]'' was among the works displayed in the Fine Arts Pavilion.]] The Fine Arts Pavilion (later the Exhibition Hall) brought together an art exhibition unprecedented for the [[West Coast of the United States]]. Among the 50 contemporary American painters whose works shown were [[Josef Albers]], [[Willem de Kooning]], [[Helen Frankenthaler]], [[Philip Guston]], [[Jasper Johns]], [[Joan Mitchell]], [[Robert Motherwell]], [[Georgia O'Keeffe]], [[Jackson Pollock]], [[Robert Rauschenberg]], [[Ad Reinhardt]], [[Ben Shahn]], and [[Frank Stella]], as well as Northwest painters [[Kenneth Callahan]], [[Morris Graves]], Paul Horiuchi, and [[Mark Tobey]]. American sculptors included [[Leonard Baskin]], [[Alexander Calder]], [[Joseph Cornell]], [[Louise Nevelson]], [[Isamu Noguchi]], and 19 others. The 50 international contemporary artists represented included the likes of painters [[Fritz Hundertwasser]], [[Joan Miró]], [[Antoni Tàpies]], and [[Francis Bacon (artist)|Francis Bacon]], and sculptors [[Henry Moore]] and [[Jean Arp]]. In addition, there were exhibitions of Mark Tobey's paintings and of Asian art, drawn from the collections of the Seattle Art Museum; and an additional exhibition of 72 "masterpieces" ranging from [[Titian]], [[El Greco]], [[Michelangelo Caravaggio|Caravaggio]], [[Rembrandt]], and [[Peter Paul Rubens|Rubens]] through [[Henri Toulouse-Lautrec|Toulouse-Lautrec]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]], and [[J. M. W. Turner|Turner]] to [[Paul Klee|Klee]], [[Georges Braque|Braque]], and [[Pablo Picasso|Picasso]], with no shortage of other comparably famous artists represented.<ref>''Official Guide Book'', pp. 88–95.</ref> [[File:Igor Stravinsky LOC 32392u.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Igor Stravinsky]]]] A separate gallery presented [[Northwest Coast art|Northwest Coast Indian art]], and featured a series of large paintings by [[Bill Holm (art historian)|Bill Holm]] introducing Northwest Native motifs.<ref>''Official Guide Book'', p. 96.</ref>
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