David F. Martin

David F. Martin is an art historian with a primary focus on female, gay or Asian-American artists. He is an authority on the art of Washington State during the period 1890-1960, and in particular on members of the Seattle [Camera Club], and chiefly composed of Japanese American photographers working in the Pictorialist style.

Career

Martin has been the consulting curator for the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, Washington since 2015. He has previously served as Program Director for the American Art Council at the Seattle Art Museum and as regional President of the Northwest Chapter of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. He is the only male Honorary Member of Women Painters of Washington. He has been instrumental in recovering the artistic legacies of Washington State artists Virna Haffer and Soichi Sunami, among others.