As theme shows culled from a museum's permanent collection go, "Northwest in the West: exploring Our Roots" is not half bad.
There are works that have been shown at TAM multiple times before, like Gaylen Hansen's iconic "Kernal Riding Through Snakes" and William Ivey's "Blues and Whites," and that's all right because both of those are great paintings worth viewing again and again. There are also some fabulous pieces I have never before seen, such as Mark Tobey's "Northwest Fantasy," Rick Bartow's "Old Time Picture" and Sherry Markovitz's mind-boggling sculpture of a mounted moose head, "Eternal Vigilance."
Read Alec Clayton's full review of "Northwest in the West" in the Music & Culture section.
"NORTHWEST IN THE WEST: EXPLORING OUR ROOTS," 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday, through Fall 2015, Tacoma Art Museum, 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, $8-$10, 253.272.4258
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