Whether you're interested in art history, Native American culture, or the past lives of the city of Seattle, you'll want to know more about early twentieth-century sculptor James A. Wehn.

Encouraged to create art during one of his frequent periods of illness as a youth, he was introduced to his first mentor, painter Rowena Nichols Leinss, in 1895. In 1905, at twenty-three, he started his first studio-distinguishing him as Seattle's "First Sculptor." Native Americans intrigued Wehn from an early age, so it's no surprise that his first completed bust was of Princess Angeline, the...