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Bird with Covey
Bird with Covey

Bird with Covey

Date1963
Object number63.95
Provenance[Gordon Woodside Gallery, Seattle]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum (Eugene Fuller Memorial Collection), 1963
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 49th Annual Exhibition of Northwest Artists, November 6 - December 8, 1963. Anacortes, Washington, Anacortes Arts and Crafts Festival, 1964. Olympia, Washington, State Capitol Museum, The 1969 Governor's Invitational Exhibition (Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Center, Oak Harbor Arts Center, Port Townsend Art Gallery, Burien Arts and Crafts, Bellingham, Gallery 217, Yakima, Allied Arts Center, Tacoma Allied Arts, Spokane, Cheney Cowles Museum, Walla Walla Community College, Pullman, Green River Community College, Washington), 1969-1970. Seattle, Washington, Office of Minority Affairs, University of Washington, and the Ford Foundation, in cooperation with the Society of Ethnic and Special Studies, In Praise of Man and Nature, the Second Annual Conference on Special Emerging Programs in Higher Education (held in Olympic Hotel, Seattle), November 6 - 9, 1974.Published ReferencesKarlstrom, Paul J., "The Spirit in the Stone: The Visionary Art of James Washington, Jr.", fig. w/ artist p. 64
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions7 3/4 x 27 x 1 3/8 in. (19.69 x 68.58 x 3.49 cm)
MediumStone
Photo: Scott Leen
1961
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