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City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle presents works from one of the best collections of modern and contemporary art in the country—all thanks to one visionary Seattleite. See works by major American artists including Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, David Hammons, Jasper Johns, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol in this extraordinary exhibition. You can’t tell the story of Seattle’s art world without telling the story of Jinny Wright.

Featuring 64 works created between 1943–2003 that define bold and experimental art movements across the United States and Europe, City of Tomorrow features but a fraction of the many works that Jinny and her husband Bagley gifted to SAM over the years, many of which have not previously been displayed at SAM. The exhibition will also include archival photographs, ephemera, and other materials that trace the transformation of SAM, the city, and Washington state.

From gestural paintings coming out of the United States in the late 1940s and ’50s, to intense fields of color, to Assemblage, Pop and Minimal art, and the interdisciplinary art of the 1980s and ‘90s, Jinny ‘s priority was always to support young artists by collecting the work that was groundbreaking in its moment. She studied art, lived with art, and considered how art impacted the cultural landscape of her home, the Pacific Northwest.