ROBERT BRUCE INVERARITY // BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
The following was written by Inverarity as a formal submission to “Who’s Who in Art” - the journal had requested a full background directly with him in the 1970s.
Exhibited:
Seattle Fine Arts Society - one man show - 1928
13th Annual Exhibition by Northwest Artists Seattle Arts Society 1927 and 1928
Curtis Galleries, San Francisco 1929
Blanding Sloan Workshop, Gallery, San Francisco one man show - 1929
Edward Weston Gallery man show -1929 - Carmel, California
Studio on Wheels - Santa Barbara, California 1930
El Paseo Gallery, Palm Springs 1930
Studio on Wheels - Ventura, California 1930
722 Montgomery, San Francisco - one man show - 1930
Lowman & Handford - Seattle - one man show - 1930
Henry Gallery, Univ. of Wash. N. W. Printmakers 1930
Brooklyn Society of Etchers, Brooklyn Museum 1931
Chicago Society of Etchers, Art Institute Chicago 1930
Hudson's Bay Co. Vancouver, Canada - one man show - 1931
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada - one man show - 1932
National Gallery of Canada, 1933
Chicago World's Fair 1933
Seattle Art Museum, 1935
20th Annual Exhibition by Northwest Arts, Seattle Art Museum 1934
Gump Gallery, San Francisco - one man show - 1935
Mary Dale Studios, Tacoma - one man show - 1935
New York World's Fair, 1939
Oakland Art Gallery, 1941
California Watercolor Society - L. A. County Museum 1942 & 1943
Los Angeles Art Association 1948
War Paintings - U.S. Navy
Mural, U. S. Naval Air Station, Seattle Mosaics, Bagley Hall, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Teaching:
Cornish School, Seattle, Washington 1927-28
Y.W.C.A., San Francisco, California 1929-30
Director, School of Creative Art, Vancouver, Canada 1931-33
University of Washington 1933-37
Assistant Director, F. Archer School of Photography, Los Angeles, California 1947-49
Positions:
State Director - Federal Art Project, Washington State 1937-39
State Director - Washington State Art and Craft Project, WA, 1939-41
Chief of Design, Camouflage - U.S. Navy, 13th District, 1941-43
Official War Artist, U.S. Navy 1943-45
Art Director, Boeing Aircraft Co. (Sales) 1946-47
Director, Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1949-54
Director, Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, N. Y. 1954-65
Director, Adirondack Historical Association, Blue Mountain Lake, New York 1954-65
Designer of art books and classical series for the University of California Press, Berkeley 1967-69
Director, Philadelphia Maritime Museum
Other Associations:
Member, , UNESCO, I.C.O.M. Conference on "Museums and Race" - Paris 1951
Associate, , School of American Research, Santa Fe, N.M. 1949-54
Member, Advisor Board, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona 1952-54
Member, Board of Trustees, Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, 1950-54
Member, Board of Directors, International Folk Art Foundation 1952-54
Consultant, Human Relations Area Files, Inc., New Haven, Conn. 1951-52
Research Assistant, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 1951-53
Member
I. C. O. M. conference on "Museums and Race" held under auspices of UNESCO in Paris, 1945
Member, California Watercolor Society Member, California Color Society, 1947-49
Museum Consultant, Arizona Pioneers Historical Society, 1954
Museum Consultant, Adirondack Historical Association, 1954
Trustee, Eskimo Art Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan 1953-55
Advisory Board, National Art Museum of Sport 1962-63
Advisory, New York State Council on the Arts 1961-65
Consultant to New York State Board of Regents 1963
Collected for Canadian National Museum, Ottawa, Canada 1933
Recipient Meritorious Civilian Service Award, U.S. Navy 1945
Grant - Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research in 1951
One of sixteen scholars from France, Italy, Germany Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research at Burg Wartenstein, Austria, 1962
Societies:
Member, Society for Nautical Research, Greenwich, England 1964-66
Associate, International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, England 1960-70
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, London, England 1933-54
Member, Executive Committee - Western States Branch - American Anthropological Association 1950-52
Fellow, American Anthropological Association 1952-70
Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science, 1953-1972
Member, American Ethnological Association 1952-68
Member, American Association of Museums 1966-16
Phi Beta Kappa Academie Latine, Paris, , France, 1949-
Council Member, New York State Association of Museums, 1963-64
Vice President, New York State Association of Museums, 1964-65
Travel since 1937 in the following countries:
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United States, U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia. In 1951 made a survey of Scandinavian Museums and in 1964 made a study of 66 museums in 14 Near East and European countries. In 1970 studied a variety of museums in U.S.S.R. In 1979 to Japan, Phillippines, Singapore, India, Thailand, Hong Kong and Hawaii. In 1980 and 1981 Mexico
Writing:
Art columnist, Seattle Daily Times, Seattle, Washington 1930-31
Syndicate columnist for sixteen major West Coast newspapers, 1931
Numerous articles on museums, art and anthropology for related journals.
Technical writing for U. S. Navy and Federal Art Project
Designed and illustrated various books.
Some Publications:
Block Printing and Stenciling, New York 1930 o. p.
The rainbow Book, New York, 1931 0.p.
Manual of Puppetry, Masks and Marionettes of the Northwest Coast Indians, Bloomington Hills, Michigan 1940
Northwest Coast Indian Art, Washington State Museum 1946
Art of the Northwest Coast Indians, Berkeley, 1950
Contributing author The Use of Computers in Anthropology - The Hague, 1965
Contributing author - Early Chinese Art and Its Possible Influence in the Pacific Basin 3 vols. New York 1972
Editor, Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks, Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. 1959
visual Files Coding Index, Publication Fifteen, Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics 1960
Accessioning and Cataloguing, Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. 1965
Early Marine Navigation, Philadelphia 1976
Philadelphia Port of History 1699 -1837 Philadelphia 1976
Catalogue for The Inverarity Collection in the British Museum, 1978
Illustrator and Designer of book Jackets, University of California Press, Berkeley 1967-69
Consultant over a period of years to various museus and participant in conferences on museums, anthropology and information storage and retrieval.
Planned and organized Arizona Pioneer's Historical
Society Museum and Spokane Art Center.
Planned, organized, developed and directed Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York.
Reorganized, developed, planned and directed Philadelphia Maritime Museum 1969 - 1976
Incidental Data
Color consultant, U. S. Government, Federal Fousing Authority 1947
Consultant, Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport, Maine 1960
Consultant, Bell Telephone Company of Canada 1963
Consultant, Canadian National Museum, Ottawa 1964-65
Consultant, Rome Historical Association, Rome, N. I. 1965
Consultant, Peabody Museum, Harvard Univ., Cambridge 1966
Member of Faculty, Historic-House Keeping. Auspices N. Y.
State Historical Association and National Trust for Historic Preservation. Cooperstown. N. Y. 1957
Member, Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference on the Place of Museums in Higher Education, Indiana Univ. 1958
Member, Panel on Microforms, Council of Library Resources, Washington, D.C. 1958
Member, Symposium on Folk Art. Am. Folklore Society and N. Y. Folklore Society, Albany, N. Y. 1959
Member, Wenner-Gren Foundation. Conference, Visual Communication in Commerce and the Museum N. Y. C. 1960
Member, Conference on Information Retrieval for Historical Materials, Winterthur Museum, Delaware1963
Member, Conference of Museums and Anthropological Research. National Museum of Canada, Ottawa 1963
Member, Colloquium on Information Retrieval for Historical Materials, Drexel Institute of Technology, Philadelphia 1965
Chairman, Sea Museums Council. 1971-73
Member, Am. Assoc. Museums Accreditation Visiting Committee 1972
Member, , Franklin In Club, Philadelphia 1971-75
Contributing author, Tearbook of Anthropology 1955
Advisor; Mingei International, Museum of World Folk Art, 1978-
Member Board of Honorary Governor, American Friends of the Haifa Maritime Museum, 1980-
Speaker, Annual Northeast Museums Conference, Cooperstown, N. Y. 1961
Annual Meeting of American Association for State and Local History and the Society of American Archivists Raleigh, N. C. 1963
Speaker, N. Y. Skin Divers Association, Syracuse, N. Y. 1963
Speaker, 1st Conference on Underwater Archaeology, St. Paul, Minn. 1963
Speaker, New England Conference, American Association Stockbridge, Mass. 1963
Speaker, American Association of Museums 60th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia 1965
Keynote Speaker, American Association of Museums, N. E. Conference, Mystic, Conn. 1969
Consultant Human Relations Area Files, New Raven 1951-53
Member Advisory Board, Heard Museum, Phoenix 1952-55
Member Board of. Directors International Folk Art Foundation 1952-54
Jury member, Architectural League of New York 1938
Judge - Seattle International Exhibition of Photography 1946
President Santa re Sinfonietta and Choral Society 1951-52
Trustee National Maritime Historical Society 1972-73
Chairman Sea Museums Council 1971-73
Executive Committee member, Council of American Maritime Museums 1973 - 76
Member National Board of Trustees, Operation Sail 1976, Inc. 1973 - 76
Chairman Op Sail 76 Philadelphia Committee
Further Reference:
Who's Who in the West - 1951
Who's Who in the East - 8th Edition
Who's Who in America (Supplement Mar. - May 1957)
Who's Who in American Art 1936
Authors and Writers Who's Who - London 48-49
Directory of British and American Writers - London 1970
Dictionary of International Biography 1970-71,72,73
The Writers Directory, London 1971-73, 1976-78
A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Ottawa 1968
Fifth International Directory of Anthropologists, Chicago International Who's Who in Art and Antiques, Cambridge, Eng.
Directory Of American Scholars, 3rd Edition, 1957
