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0012270
Author/Editor: HACKETT Regina.
Publisher: Post-Intelligencer
Place Published: Seattle, Wash.
Year: 1987
Date & Collation: (1 Jan)..(1 Moore illus).
Description: Photograph of David Mendoza and Linda Farris celebrating the retention of Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, 1968-1969 bronze and outline of how the work was retained in Seattle. Also mentions Moore's death in 1986, as did two dozen other newspapers on 1 January 1987 in their surveys of 1986.
0000365
Author/Editor: HACKETT Regina., NOBLE Alice.
Publisher: Post-Intelligencer
Place Published: Seattle
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (30 Aug)..(1 illus).
Description: J.M.B. Property Management Corporation and Artech Fine Art Services had failed to obtain a permit to remove Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, 1968-1969 bronze and J.M.B. may need to replace it with another art work. Developer Martin Selig said he had offered to buy the work and been told it was not for sale, and Seattle Art Museum's curator of contemporary art, Bruce Guenther, is quoted as saying it was an unfortunate and possibly even scandalous turn of events"."
0011912
Publisher: Post-Intelligencer
Place Published: Seattle, Wash.
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (1 Sept)..(1 illus).
Description: P.I. Staff and News Services obituary notice, outlining Moore's life and career, and reporting sale of Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, 1968-1969 bronze and calls for its retention in the city.
0012031
Author/Editor: NOBLE Alice.
Publisher: Post-Intelligencer
Place Published: Seattle
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (6 Sept)..
Description: City officials say Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, 1968-1969 bronze isn't going anywhere until the Department of Construction and Land Use issues a master use permit to dismantle it. Both Seafirst Bank and J.M.B. Property Management indicated they have no plans to file for a permit. It remains to be seen when the buyer will be able to claim the property and remove it from the city.
0012039
Author/Editor: MARSHALL John.
Publisher: Post-Intelligencer
Place Published: Seattle, Wash.
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (9 Sept)..
Description: Saga of Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, 1968-1969 bronze in Seattle as a soap opera, As the Vertebrae Turns. Will Vertebrae still be crated up and sail off into the sunset? And what will replace the mammoth Moore on JMB's plaza?" Another cutting labelled Post-Intelligencer 9 September 1986 carries a note by Alice Noble and Scott Maier entitled "Royer enlists help to keep...". Mayor Charles Royer has asked a private art dealer to track down the new owner of the bronze. A similar report headed Seattle (U.P.I.) appeared in other U.S.A. newspapers on 10 September 1986."
0012084
Author/Editor: FOSTER George.
Publisher: Post-Intelligencer
Place Published: Seattle, Wash.
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (11 Oct)..(1 illus).
Description: Photograph of consultant David Mendoza and dealer Linda Farris at a party by Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, 1968-1969 bronze to celebrate its remaining in Seattle. A dozen U.S.A. newspapers featured this photograph and story on 12 October 1986 through A.P.
0012082
Author/Editor: HACKETT Regina.
Publisher: Post-Intelligencer
Place Published: Seattle, Wash.
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (9 Oct)..(1 illus).
Description: Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, 1968-1969 bronze will stay on the Plaza in front of the former Seafirst Building. It now belongs to the Seattle Art Museum which bought the bronze with money provided by Seafirst Bank and J.M.B. Property Management Corporation. AP or UPI news features on this appeared in two dozen other U.S.A. newspapers on 9 October 1986.
0012020
Author/Editor: NOBLE Alice.
Publisher: Post-Intelligencer
Place Published: Seattle, Wash.
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (3 Sept)..(1 illus).
Description: Story of Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, 1968-1969 bronze, continued from 0000365. Outlines developments, mentioning the Honda Motor Company, and comments that someone in Seattle tried to buy it back. A shorter report by Richard Seven had appeared in the 2 September 1986 issue of Post-Intelligencer and an A.P. story appeared in other American newspapers at the time, including 3 September 1986 issues of: Skagit Valley Herald (Mount Vernon, Wash.); News Review (Roseburg, Oreg.); Herald (Everett, Wash.); Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.).
0012026
Author/Editor: NOBLE Alice., SEVEN Richard.
Publisher: Post-Intelligencer
Place Published: Seattle
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (4 Sept)..
Description: Seafirst Bank unwittingly sold the bronze to an overseas buyer without realizing J.M.B. Property Management Corporation had right of first refusal. A compromise gave the title to the first buyer, but provided compensation for J.M.B. The sculpture was eventually sold to a Japanese dealer who has since resold it. Wayne Andersen stated that technically J.M.B. bought the sculpture. Either J.M.B. or Seafirst must now replace it with another work of art before the city will allow its removal. Outlines events of recent months leading to current situation.
0012055
Author/Editor: MAIER Scott., NOBLE Alice.
Publisher: Post-Intelligencer
Place Published: Seattle, Wash.
Year: 1986
Date & Collation: (16 Sept)..
Description: Mayor Charles Royer still does not know who actually owns Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae, 1968-1969 bronze but he believes negotiations are under way between all parties involved on the fate of the work.