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Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come on Petunia)

1984

Gary Hill

American, born 1951

Single-channel color video, stereo sound on 2 inch reel to reel

33 min., 09 sec.

Gift of the artist, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

2007.90

Provenance: The artist; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2007

Not currently on view

Resources

Published ReferencesGary Hill: Selected Works and Catalogue Raisonné. Published: Cologne, Germany: DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag (2002), on the occasion of the exhibition Gary Hill. Selected Works at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, November 9, 2001 to March 10, 2002.

Quasha, George, Charles Stein, "An Art of Limina Gary Hill's Works and Writings", Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 2009, various

Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. "A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, illus. p. 122

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