(Photograph courtesy Clay Eals)
Each on the Seattle Now & Then website and in tomorrow’s Seattle Times Pacific NW magazine, West Seattle journalist/historian Clay Eals tells a thriller story. What you see within the photograph above is a part of it – considered one of greater than 30 metallic artwork panels telling the story of “The Evolution of Lighting.” They had been owned and displayed by Seattle City Light and had been alleged to be introduced alongside when SCL moved into a brand new headquarters within the Seattle Municipal Tower downtown in 1996. However – they weren’t. Most of them have been discovered, however the whereabouts of some stay a thriller. There are a number of West Seattle angles right here – metallic artist John W. Elliott made a lot of the panels in 1935 and labored from a studio in his West Seattle residence on Gatewood Hill; 90 years later, all however three of the panels had been found and purchased earlier this 12 months by West Seattle collector Mike Shaughnessy. You possibly can see the lacking panels in Clay’s story; maybe somebody who reads it can resolve the thriller (not simply of the lacking panels’ whereabouts however why the metallic artwork wasn’t introduced alongside in SCL’s HQ transfer)!
