IF I RULED THE WORLD

2018

Jeffrey Gibson

Native American, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians/Cherokee, born 1972

Repurposed punching bag, acrylic felt, glass beads, metal jingles, artificial sinew, and nylon fringe

79 x 15 x 15 in. (200.7 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm)

Modern Art Acquisition Fund; by exchange, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Childe Hassam Fund; Sidney and Anne Gerber; Jan and Gardner Cowles; David Hoberman; Gordon Woodside; Ed Rossbach; Pat Klein and Stephen Wirtz Gallery; Gary Wiggs; Jerome D. Whalen; Karin Webster; Virginia Zabriskie; Dinah James and the Diane Gilson Gallery; Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Weyerhaeuser; Norman and Amelia Davis Collection; Mrs. Will Otto Bell; Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters Award in memory of Eustace P. Ziegler, 1969

2018.17

Provenance: The artist; [Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2018

Photo: Pete Mauney

Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Jeffrey Gibson: LIKE A HAMMER, Feb. 28 - May 12, 2019. [Exhibition organized by the Denver Art Museum and circulated to the Mississipi Museum of Art, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and Seattle Art Museum; IF I RULED THE WORLD shown only in Seattle.]

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Reverberations: Contemporary Art and Modern Classics, Dec. 22, 2022 - ongoing.

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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