"History museum exhibit is a rare look at Guthrie's notebooks and sketches"
Friday, March 23, 2001
By CAROLINE ALLEN
SPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/pop/fam23.shtml
http://www.wshs.org/text/exhibit-guthrie.htm


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Vanessa Helder's Grand Coulee
http://www.wshs.org/text/exhibit-helder.htm
Presented in conjunction with "This Land is Your Land: The
Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie," an exhibit of
twenty-two powerful watercolors of the Grand Coulee Dam
by Washington artist Vanessa Helder will be on display at
the Washington State History Museum from March 24,
2001 through September 30, 2001.
...
As Guthrie was writing songs about Bonneville Power
Administration projects, Vanessa Helder rested her
sketchbook on the steering wheel of her 1935 Ford and
sketched the scenes that became these twenty-two
watercolors. Her work shows the dam and the Eastern
Washington landscape as two powerful forces. Also,
depicted are the dam-builders' houses, recreation spots,
and the workers engaged in their labor.

Vanessa Helder's watercolors and Woody Guthrie's songs
proclaimed that the Grand Coulee Dam was "the biggest
thing that man has ever done." Juxtaposed with the Guthrie
exhibit, Helder's watercolors help visitors have a greater
understanding of and sympathy for the builders and
operators of these great projects. Guthrie's music and
Helder's paintings portray a dam of mythic dimensions,
designed by scientific methods, built by heroic workers,
and standing larger than life. Although they created their
tributes to Grand Coulee Dam in the same year, 1941,
Guthrie and Helder apparently never met.
...

an article about WG from "Columbia" The Magazine Of Northwest History:
http://www.wshs.org/columbia/0101-a2.htm

"Guthrie, Gospel, Gumption"
Protest Music Heard in UW Tacoma Series
http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/march01/folkcourse.html

"From the beginning of American history, the downtrodden and oppressed
have sung of their discontent. African-American slaves, poor white
mountaineers, labor organizers, women working in textile mills, Chicano
farmworkers and Native American fishers have always used song to bring
voice to their standing at the bottom of the social and economic pyramid.

"UW Tacoma Professor Michael Honey will explore this form of musical
expression when he conducts a performance-and-lecture series at 5 p.m.
on Thursday nights from April 5 to May 23 at the Washington State
History Museum, 1911 Pacific Ave., in Tacoma.
..."

"Exploring Woody Guthrie's Attic"
http://www.familywonder.com/6to8/news/148311