Woman on a Bed

Date1963

Object number77.42

ProvenanceGreen Gallery, New York, NY; Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, 1964; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Exhibition HistoryMinneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center, [sculpture show], 1963/1964. São Paulo, Brazil, São Paulo Art Biennial, 1967. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: Artists of the Sixties, May 23 - June 29, 1969. Cat. no. 19. Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum, American Art Since 1960: The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, Feb. 1 - Mar. 16, 1975. No. 26. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, American Sculpture: Three Decades, Nov. 15, 1984 - Jan. 27, 1985. Back cover, reproduced on front cover. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Unpretty Pictures, June 26, 1997. Bellingham, Washington, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Decades of Giving: Virginia Wright and Sculpture at Western, Sept. 27-Oct. 13, 1999. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, First Person Singular, May 31, 2001 - Mar. 17, 2002. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Contemporary Art from SAM Collection, Mar. 8 - Aug. 17, 2014. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle, Oct. 23, 2020 - Jan. 18, 2021Published ReferencesMaytham, Thomas N. et al. “The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: American Art Since 1960.” Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1975, cat. no. 26. Unpaginated, illus. opposite “Untitled”, Ron Davis.

Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection

DimensionsHeight: 50 in. (127 cm) Overall (bed frame): 45 × 78 × 39 in. (114.3 × 198.1 × 99.1 cm)

MediumPlaster and metal