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Marriage of Reason and Squalor, Saturday Disaster Right Hand Panel and Drowning Girl

1969

American, born 1938

Pettibone was an early practitioner of "appropriation," the term for a widespread approach in the 1980s when artists borrowed and copied images as commentaries on originality. His copies are always reduced to miniature scale and can be seen as vest pocket samplings of art world tastes and interests.

Here he brings together three renowned titans from the 1960s: Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, and Roy Lichtenstein.

Acrylic on canvas

12 1/2 x 13 in. (31.8 x 33 cm)

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

2014.25.58

Provenance: [O K Harris Works of Art, New York, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, May 14, 1970

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryPullman, Washington, Museum of Art Washington State University, Art and Context: the 1950s and 60s, Sep. 29 - Dec. 15, 2006. Text by Chris Bruce and Keith Wells. No cat. no., reproduced p. 8.

Published ReferencesFairbrother, Trevor. The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, 1999; p. 202 [not in exhibition].

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