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Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Winter and the Fire
Photo: Elizabeth Mann

Winter and the Fire

Date1949
Maker Leo Kenney born 1925, Spokane, Washington; died Seattle, Washington, 2001
Label TextFire, traditional symbol of consuming passion, and winter, often employed as a metaphor for death, are forces at work upon innate human frailty, likely symbolized by the broken ewer.
Object number2009.52.48
Provenancethe artist, by gift to Joanna Eckstein, Seattle; Marshall and Helen Hatch, Seattle
Photo CreditPhoto: Elizabeth Mann
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Leo Kenney retrospective", November 3 - December 16, 1973 Seattle, Washington, Henry Art Gallery, "Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper", September 12 - November 2, 1986
Credit LineGift of the Marshall and Helen Hatch Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions10 x 13 1/2 in. (25.4 x 34.3 cm)
MediumInk and gouache on paper
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1946
Object number: SC81.107
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1948
Object number: 2009.52.46
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
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1949
Object number: 2009.52.47
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1946
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1953
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1954
Object number: 2009.52.51
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1962
Object number: 2009.52.52
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1962
Object number: 2009.52.54
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1966
Object number: 2009.52.55
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1970
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1971
Object number: 2009.52.56
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1975
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