Artist List    Mary Randlett    Images  |  Bio Born in 1924 in Seattle, Mary Randlett began an early interest in photography receiving her first camera at the age of eleven. She studied at Whitman College and began exhibiting her work in 1969, initially at the Richard White Gallery in Seattle. She has a lifelong interest in the natural surroundings of the region and befriended many artists whom she would photograph. Her photographs are included in over forty permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. She was recently given a retrospective exhibition of her landscapes at the Tacoma Art Museum, which includes a catalog that couples her work with the poetry of Denise Levertov.