Two Onlookers and Tragedy (With Mice)

Date1989

Maker John Baldessari American, 1931 - 2020

Object number2014.25.5

Provenance[Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York]; [Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, Feb. 15, 1990

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Stories: Narrative and Sequence, Mar. 23 - July 30, 1995. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Mar. 4 - May 5, 1999. Text by Trevor Fairbrother. No cat. no., p. 199, reproduced pp. 165, 173. Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, The Secret Language of Animals, Jan. 23 - June 27, 2010. Bellingham, Washington, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Looking Back - Photography in the Seventies, Sept. 30 - Nov. 20, 2013. 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 ReferencesDean, Robert and Patrick Pardo, ed. John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné Volume Three: 1987-1993. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015; p. 166, reproduced fig. 1989.13. Graves, Jen. "The Great Wright Collection Comes to Seattle Art Museum (and the Marvelous Wright Exhibition Space Closes October 14)." The Stranger Slog, Oct. 6, 2014. http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/10/06/the-great-wright-collection-comes-to-seattle-art-museum-and-the-marvelous-wright-exhibition-space-closes-october-14, reproduced.

Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

Dimensions92 x 64 in. (233.7 x 162.6 cm)

MediumColor and black-and-white photographs, oil tint