The way we hammer art

without a nail

Jonathan Borofsky’s Hammering Man was installed right in front of the Seattle Art Museum, in 1991. Hammering Man is a series of monumental sculptures situated in different cities and was created in honour of the working class women and men of the world.


Daedalus/Upliftment, 2016
Acrylic, gold leaf, spray paint on canvas
Fahamu Pecou


Double Elvis, 1963/1976
Silkscreen in, synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Andy Warhol


Caterpillar Suit 1, 2007
Anodized brass wire
Walter Oltmann


Untitled, 1982
Acrylic, spray paint and oil stick on canvas
Jean-Michel Basquiat


Warhol/Basquiat, NYC August 1986
wowe (Wolfgang Wesener)


Birdcage
Wood, metal, ivoyr
Late Qing dynasty (1644-1991) or Republican period (1850-1920)


Leda and the Swan, probably after 1915 and before 1923
Oil on canvas
John Covert


Morning, probably 1933
Oil on burlap
Morris Graves

Morning is a deeply affecting image of retreat, of the pain of facing the light, of the fear of facing the day.


Catfish clan figure, 19th-20th century
Wood, polycrhome
Melanesian, Papua New Guinea, Guam River Region, probably Breri or Igana people


Seattle Art Museum

June 15th, 2018

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