Image: Cascadia Art Museum, Edmonds
Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds will present 'Eternal Forms: The Sculpture of Everett DuPen' from March 20 to September 13, 2026. The retrospective focuses on Everett DuPen (1912–2005), whom the museum describes as a master sculptor and educator with a career that spanned nearly eight decades. The exhibition is listed by the museum as part of its 2026 program and is accompanied by a publication, 'Eternal Forms: The Sculpture of Everett DuPen', by curator David F. Martin, to be nationally distributed by the University of Washington Press.
According to the museum’s exhibition page, DuPen began formal art studies at the University of Southern California in 1932, later studied architecture at Harvard, and graduated with a BFA from Yale in 1937. He also spent a year studying the old masters at the American Academy of Art in Rome. Later in his career, he took sabbaticals to study bronze casting in Florence, Italy, and art in India, Nepal, and Egypt. Those details place the retrospective within a long, international training history that shaped DuPen’s approach to sculpture.
DuPen relocated with his family to Seattle in 1945 and spent 38 years teaching at the University of Washington. Cascadia says that during that time he played a major role in building UW’s Sculpture Division into a nationally and internationally known program. The museum also notes that he was well known for life drawing classes, in addition to sculpture courses, and that he taught, influenced, and mentored generations of local and national Seattle-area artists.
The exhibition highlights DuPen’s work in figurative sculpture across terra cotta, stone, wood, and bronze. Cascadia says he participated in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions across the United States, including at the Seattle Art Museum, the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, the San Francisco Museum, and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. The museum’s announcement frames the show as an overview of both his artistic production and his role as an educator within the Northwest art community.
Cascadia also points to DuPen’s public art presence in the region. Among his best-known works are the DuPen Fountain at Seattle Center and the fountain on the grounds of the Joel Pritchard Building at the Washington State Capitol in Olympia. The museum’s July newsletter included an image of 'Earth', circa 1950, in terra-cotta, from the museum’s collection, with a gift credited to the DuPen Family Foundation.
The retrospective will run alongside other summer exhibitions at Cascadia, including 'Between Water and Sky: Works on Paper from the Garvey Family Collection' and 'Shadows of a Fleeting World: Pictorial Photography and the Seattle Camera Club', both on view June 17 through September 13, 2026. Cascadia Art Museum, located at 190 Sunset Ave. S., #E in Edmonds, is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with adults admission listed at $15 and seniors at $10.
