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Photo by: Gary Hill
Incidence of Catastrophe
Photo by: Gary Hill

Incidence of Catastrophe

Date1987-88
Maker Gary Hill American, born 1951
Object number2007.89
ProvenanceThe artist; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2007
Photo CreditPhoto by: Gary Hill
Published ReferencesGary Hill: Selected Works and Catalogue Raisonné. Published: Cologne, Germany: DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag (2002), on the occasion of the exhibition Gary Hill. Selected Works at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, November 9, 2001 to March 10, 2002. Quasha, George, Charles Stein, "An Art of Limina Gary Hill's Works and Writings", Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 2009, pg. 333 Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. "A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, illus. p. 122
Credit LineGift of the artist, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions43 min., 51 sec.
MediumSingle-channel color video, stereo sound
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