Chief Seattle, 1971

2015

American, born 1970

Custom aluminum sign

48 x 72 in. (121.9 x 182.9 cm)

Northwest Acquisition Fund and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Art Acquisition Fund

2016.9.2

Provenance: The artist; [Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington]; puchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2016

Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Jack Daws: Inconvenient Truths, Nov. 16, 2015 - Mar. 6, 2016.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, American Art: The Stories We Carry, Oct. 20, 2022 - ongoing [on view beginning Apr. 5, 2023].

Seattle Art Museum respectfully acknowledges that we are on Indigenous land, the traditional territories of the Coast Salish people. We honor our ongoing connection to these communities past, present, and future.

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