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Bon Fire

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Bon Fire

1983

Robert Helm

American, born 1943

Oil painting on wood inlay in three parts
26 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. (67.3 x 50.2cm)
Gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
2014.25.29
Provenance: [La Louver, Venice, California]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, Feb. 1, 1984
location
Not currently on view

Resources

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].

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