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Mem, 1959, 97 x 140 in. (246.4 x 355.6 cm), Acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas, du177

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Rights administered by Artists Rights Society (ARS)

Collection:

Seattle Art Museum, Washington, United States. Promised gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

Provenance:

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Mr. and Mrs. Bagley Wright, Seattle

Exhibitions:

(E 102): New York: André Emmerich Gallery, 1966

(E 121): Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; St. Louis, Missouri: City Art Museum (cat. no. 24, color, p. 48), 1967

(E 128): Seattle Art Museum (cat. no. 3, color), 1967

(E 435): New York: Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth, Texas: Fort Worth Art Museum; Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution (color, p. 117), 1986-1987

(E 487): Denver, Colorado: Denver Art Museum; Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum; Nashville, Tennessee: Frist Center for the Visual Arts (color pl. 16, p. 43), 2007-2008

References:

(B 189): Michener 1967, color, p. 41

(B 249): Fried 1970, bw pl. 64

(B 264): Nemser 1970, bw, p. 328

(B 412): Upright 1985, cat. no. 177, color, p.149

Rothbart, Daniel, Jewish Metaphysics as Generative Principle in American Art (Naples: Ulisse e Calipso, 1994), fig. 20, bw

ML number:

ML 2-90

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