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Kurt Cobain at MTV's Live and Loud, Pier 48, Seattle, WA, Dec. 13, 1993

© Alice Wheeler, Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle

Kurt Cobain at MTV's Live and Loud, Pier 48, Seattle, WA, Dec. 13, 1993

1993, printed 2010

Alice Wheeler

American, born 1961

Wheeler became close to Cobain through mutual friends in Olympia, and as a result had unusual access to him as he rose to fame. This is one of her most iconic images of the musician at the absolute height of his fame, when the pressures of celebrity and the effects of his drug use were at their most severe.
Color digital print
27 x 40 1/2 in. (68.6 x 102.9cm)
Purchased with funds from Clinton T. Willour in honor of Greg Kucera and Larry Yocom
2010.5
Provenance: Artist Studio (printed February/March 2010); to Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA ; to Seattle Art Museum via gift of Clinton T. Willour
© Alice Wheeler, Courtesy of Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
location
Not currently on view

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Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "KURT", May 13 - September 6, 2010

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