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Bon Fire
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Bon Fire

Date1983
Maker Robert Helm American, born 1943
Object number2014.25.29
Provenance[La Louver, Venice, California]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, Feb. 1, 1984
Exhibition HistoryPurchase, New York, Neuberger Museum of Art, Awards in Visual Arts 5, Apr. 13 - June 15,1986 [organized by Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina] (Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art, Sept. 14 - Oct. 18, 1986; West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery and School of Art, Dec. 12, 1986 - Jan. 25, 1987). Text by Jamey Gambrell. Cat. no. 22, reproduced p. 46. New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Paintings, Mar. 9 - May 9, 1990. Text by Roni Feinstien. No Cat. no., p. 19. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Views and Visions in the Pacific Northwest, June 7 - Sept. 2, 1990 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Downtown Inaugural Exhibition: Northwest Contemporary Art Gallery, Dec. 5, 1991 - Jan. 1993 Houston, Texas, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Robert Helm 1981 – 1993, Sept. 10 - Oct. 10, 1994 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Reclaimed: Nature and Place through Contemporary Eyes, May 2 - Sept. 30, 2011 Published ReferencesJohns, Barbara. Modern Art from the Pacific Northwest in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1990; reproduced fig. 29, p. 33. Fairbrother, Trevor. The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, 1999; p. 200 [not in exhibition].
Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions26 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. (67.3 x 50.2 cm)
MediumOil painting on wood inlay in three parts
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