B/W XIII

Date1968

Maker Al Held American, 1928 - 2005

Object number2014.25.27

Provenance[Andre Emmerich, New York, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, 1968; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2014

Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen

Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, Al Held, Recent Paintings, Nov. 19 - Dec. 26, 1968 (Houston, Texas, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Jan. 7 - 27, 1969). Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum (Modern Art Pavilion), The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: Artists of the Sixties, May 23 - June 29, 1969. Cat. no. 6. Bellingham, Washington, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Paintings of the Sixties: From the Collection of Virginia and Bagley Wright, Jan. 6 - 23, 1970. Tacoma, Washington, the Tacoma Art Museum, Contemporary American Paintings from the Collection of Bagley and Virginia Wright, Oct. 2 - 28, 1974. Pullman, Washington, Fine Art Gallery, Washington State University, Contemporary American Abstract Painting 1960 -1974, Nov. 1 - 22, 1974. Denver, Colorado, Denver Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection: American Art Since 1960, Feb. 1 - Mar. 16, 1975. Text by Thomas N. Maytham, et al. Cat. no. 20, reproduced, unpaginated. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Art of the Seventies, Aug. 1 - Sept. 5, 1977. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Mar. 4, 1999 - May 5, 1999. Text by Trevor Fairbrother. No cat. no., reproduced fig. 11, pp. 32, 141 (detail), 181. Seattle, Washington, Wright Exhibition Space, Big is Better (or Some Claim), unknown start date - Mar. 6, 2010. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Reverberations: Contemporary Art and Modern Classics, Dec. 22, 2022 - ongoing.Published References

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

Dimensions96 x 72 in. (243.8 x 182.9 cm)

MediumAcrylic on canvas