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Woman on a Bed

Woman on a Bed

1963

George Segal

American, 1924 - 2000

Plaster and metal
Height: 50 in. (127 cm)
Overall (bed frame): 45 × 78 × 39 in. (114.3 × 198.1 × 99.1 cm)
Gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection
77.42
Provenance: Green Gallery, New York, NY; Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, 1964; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
location
Not currently on view

Resources

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, 2021
Published 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.

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