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Now Here's That Blame Treaty
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Now Here's That Blame Treaty

Date1983
Maker William T. Wiley American, 1937 - 2021
Label TextThis densely laden work is a quintessential example of William T. Wiley’s enigmatic use of puns, self-referential symbolism, sociopolitical references, and chaotically overlapping imagery. We can make out distinct and disparate forms in a darkened artist studio—a palette and easel, a baby’s pacifier, a skull, an angel, an infinity symbol—that seem to suggest but do not fully reveal a complex narrative. In the center radiates a glowing grid, both a recurring symbol in the artist’s work and one that paradoxically represents a mainstream form of geometric abstraction standing in diametrical opposition to Wiley’s idiosyncratic and elusive consciousness.
Object number92.140
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture, June 21 - September 2, 2024.
Credit LineGift of Marcia Bartholme and Rockwell Smith
DimensionsSheet h.: 51 7/8 in. Sheet w.: 41 7/8 in. Image h.: 44 3/4 in. Image w.: 35 3/4 in. Plate h.: 45 in. Plate w.: 36 in.
MediumEtching
Photo: Scott Leen
William T. Wiley
1983
Object number: 92.139
Photo: Scott Leen
William T. Wiley
1974
Object number: 82.118
Photo: Scott Leen
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1975
Object number: 86.284
Photo: Scott Leen
William T. Wiley
1984
Object number: 91.283
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
William T. Wiley
1978
Object number: 86.283
Photo: Scott Leen
William T. Wiley
1973
Object number: 2006.131
XIIb here's one more story for you
Jay Bolotin
1984
Object number: 92.46.29
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Lucia Wiley
ca. 1935
Object number: 69.386