Focus on Host (painting) and explain the History.
This painting was acquired by the museum with gifts from Richard and Elizabeth Hedreen and the Margaret E. Fuller Purchase Fund. Host was first exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters' "Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture" in 2000 in New York City. It was exhibited four times at the Seattle Art Museum as part of various group exhibitions. It was also exhibited in New York at the New Museum as part of Gallagher's solo show, "Ellen Gallagher: Don't Axe Me" in 2013.
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