The Important an Unimportant

1999

American, 1931 - 2020

Digital printing, hand lettering, and acrylic paint on canvas

94 x 94 in. (238.8 x 238.8cm)

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

2014.25.6

Provenance: John Baldessari (1931-2020); [Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, May 25, 1999

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, John Baldessari: The Tetrad Series, Apr. 16 - May 21, 1999. Text by Thomas McEvilley. No cat. no., reproduced pl. 3.

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