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Black Wall Piece
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Black Wall Piece

Date1971
Object number2014.25.1
Provenance[Ace Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Nov. 15, 1971
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Contemporary Art Council Collects Art of the 70s, Feb. 4 - Mar. 19, 1972 Newport, California, Orange County Museum of Art, Peter Alexander: In This Light, May 29 - Sept. 12, 1999 (Las Vegas, Nevada, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Oct. 8 - November 28, 1999). Text by Dave Hackey and Naomi Vine. No cat. no., reproduced p. 51, pl. 8. Pullman, Washington, Museum of Art, Washington State University, 3 Degrees of Cool: Masterworks of Contemporary Art, Jan. 6 - Feb. 29, 2004 New York, New York, Foundation 20 21/ Nyehaus, Peter Alexander: Resin Works 1965 - 2009, July 6 - Nov. 2, 2009. Ed. by Tim Nye. Cat. no. 11, reproduced pl.11. La Jolla, California, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Phenomenal: California Light and Space, Sept. 25, 2011 - Jan. 22, 2012, Text ed. by Robin Clark, Michael Auping. No cat. no. Seattle, Washington, Wright Exhibition Space, 9 from L.A., Sept. 26 - Apr. 25, 2014Published ReferencesFairbrother, Trevor. The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, 1999; p. 199, reproduced on endsheet [not in exhibition].
Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions67 x 98 1/2 in. (170.2 x 250.2 cm)
MediumCast acrylic in five parts
2005
Object number: 2010.31.12
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
2003
Object number: 2015.7.1
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
2003
Object number: 2015.7.2
Courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery
2018
Object number: 2018.13
Photo: Mark Woods
2012
Object number: 2017.27
Gumpilil
1984
Object number: SC85.14
1983
Object number: 2014.25.29
Anklet (Inkalulungani)
Object number: 2000.12.20.1