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Robert Davidson: Abstract Impulse

Nov 16 2013–Feb 16 2014

Seattle Art Museum

In partnership with the National Museum of the American Indian, NY, SAM is proud to organize the first major U.S. exhibition of the Haida artist, Robert Davidson.

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The exhibition has been organized by the Seattle Art Museum in collaboration with the Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, New York.

Green Tri Neg, 2009, Robert Davidson (Haida, born 1946), acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 in., Private Collection, courtesy Kinsman Robinson Galleries. Photo: Kenji Nagai.

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