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Photo: Courtesy Howard House Contemporary Art
Like a Setting Sun (South G. Street, Tacoma, WA)
Photo: Courtesy Howard House Contemporary Art

Like a Setting Sun (South G. Street, Tacoma, WA)

Date2008
Maker Gretchen Bennett American, born 1960
Label TextBennett is drawn to Cobain as a way to address the peculiarities of the Northwest and her own development here. This work is from an ongoing group of drawings made from video stills of movies and film footage featuring Cobain and others portraying him.The intensely-worked color pencil drawing belies a sense of loving devotion to Kurt's memory, as if trying to hold on to him through this act.
Object number2008.26
Photo CreditPhoto: Courtesy Howard House Contemporary Art
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Kurt", May 13 - September 6, 2010 Seattle, Washington, Howard House Contemporary Art Gallery, "Hello", February 28 - April 12, 2008
Credit LineGift of the Contemporary Collectors Forum
Dimensions26 x 35 1/2 in. (66 x 90.2 cm)
MediumPrismacolor pencils on paper
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