Kurt Cobain at MTV's Live and Loud, Pier 48, Seattle, WA, Dec. 13, 1993
1993, printed 2010
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