Credit: COURTESY THE WRIGHT COLLECTION

Yesterday, I posted the announcement that the artist John Chamberlain has died.

“So odd—I thought of him two days ago when I saw a carrier full of crushed cars go by,” former Stranger art critic Emily Hall posted on my Facebook link.

A Slog commenter, porchedge, reminded me that the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection in Seattle includes a significant Chamberlain. It’s called Toots Wheat, and it’s from 1989. It’s not on display now at the Wright Exhibition Space—which actually doesn’t have a show up currently. The next show opens mid-February, and probably won’t include the Chamberlain, curator Jan Day says. But here’s an image to hold you over until you next meet…

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  • COURTESY THE WRIGHT COLLECTION

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...

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