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Photo: Pete Mauney
IF I RULED THE WORLD
Photo: Pete Mauney

IF I RULED THE WORLD

Date2018
Object number2018.17
ProvenanceThe artist; [Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York]; purchased from gallery by Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2018
Photo CreditPhoto: Pete Mauney
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.
Credit LineModern 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
Dimensions79 x 15 x 15 in. (200.7 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm)
MediumRepurposed punching bag, acrylic felt, glass beads, metal jingles, artificial sinew, and nylon fringe
Trade Beads:  Lorraine Cross
19th century
Object number: 91.1.134.5
Trade Beads:  Napoleon
19th century
Object number: 91.1.134.8
Buxic’ (Bird rattle)
First Nations, Nuu-chah-nulth, Hesquiat
ca. 1890
Object number: 91.1.24
Photo: Paul Macapia
ca. 1850
Object number: 91.1.57
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
1971
Object number: 84.224
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
1994
Object number: 2003.122
Photo: Scott Leen
1935
Object number: 84.131