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    The Conversation, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Mackie, Jack, 1946- , sculptor.
    Title: 
    The Conversation, (sculpture).
    Other Titles: 
    It's Only Money, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1990.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Painted steel, polished black granite.
    Dimensions: 
    3 units. Each chair frame: approx. 56 x 48 x 48 in.; Stone marker: approx. H. 3 in. x W. 48 in.
    Inscription: 
    (On stone marker, inscribed:) MONEY DOESN'T GROW ON TREES (On chair frame closest to Seneca Street, painted silver:) MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING BUT IT'S WAY AHEAD OF WHATEVER'S SECOND/BESSIE SMITH/MONEY CANNOT FILL OUR NEEDS/DOROTHY PARKER/SUBJECT TO A DISEASE THEY CALLED LACK OF MONEY/RABELAIS/FOR NOW IT MUST BE EVIDENT THAT MONEY IS NOT WEALTH/HENRY MILLER/MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND/MONEY DOES NOT PAY FOR ANYTHING, NEVER HAS, NEVER WILL/ALBERT JAY NOCK/PINK FLOYD/MONEY, ITS A GAS/A DILLAR, A DOLLAR, A TEN O'CLOCK SCHOLAR/MONEY BEGETS MONEY/JOHN RAY/ENDLESS MONEY FORMS THE SINEWS OF WAR/CICERO/HER VOICE IS FULL OF MONEY/ F. SCOTT FITZGERALD/BUY ART/ANNE GERBER/READY MONEY IS ALADIN'S LAMP/LORD BYRON/MONEY WON'T CHANGE YOU BUT TIME WILL TAKE YOU ON/JAMES BROWN/IS MONEY MONEY OR ISN'T MONEY MONEY?/GERTRUDE STEIN/MONEY DOESN'T TALK, IT SWEARS/BOB DYLAN/UP AND DOWN THE CITY ROAD, IN AND OUT THE EAGLE,/THAT'S THE WAY THE MONEY GOES - POP GOES THE WEASEL!/TAKE THE CASH, AND LET THE CREDIT GO/EDWARD FITZGERALD/A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS/JOHN HEYWOOD/MONEY DOESN'T CHANGE YOUR BIRTH/HORACE
    (On chair frame closest to Spring Street, painted silver:) A GOOD REPUTATION IS MORE VALUABLE THAN MONEY/PIBLILIUS SYRUS/CAN'T BUY ME LOVE/LENNON-MCCARTNEY/THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RICH AND OTHER PEOPLE IS THAT THE RICH HAVE MORE MONEY/HEMINGWAY/CAN ANYBODY REMEMBER WHEN THE TIMES WERE NOT HARD AND THE MONEY WAS NOT SCARCE?/EMERSON/I'LL BET MY MONEY ON THE BOBTAIL NAG/STEPHEN FOSTER/THE LOVE OF MONEY AND THE LOVE OF LEARNING RARELY MEET/GEORGE HERBERT/PUT MONEY IN THY PURSE/SHAKESPEARE/TIME IS MONEY/BENJAMIN FRANKLIN/THE KING WAS IN HIS COUNTINGHOUSE COUNTING OUT HIS MONEY/MONEY IS TRASH/THOMAS DECKER/MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING/TOM GRAY/A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON PARTED/ITS ONLY MONEY/JACK MACKIE/MONEY: THERE'S NOTHING SO DEMORALIZING AS MONEY/SOPHOCLES/THE LOVE OF MONEY/IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL/I TIMOTHY/HEALTH IS A BLESSING MONEY CANNOT BUY/IZAAK WALTON/COCO CHANNEL/THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE MONEY AND PEOPLE WHO ARE RICH/WILLIE LOWMAN NEVER MADE A LOT OF MONEY/ARTHUR MILLER/YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY AND TAKES YOUR CHOICE/PUNCH signed
    Description: 
    Installation consisting of two abstract chair-like steel frames and a polished granite marker. Each of the frames is painted brown and is set in a tree grate, causing the frame to partially encircle a tree. The marker, a long, flat rectangular piece of black granite, is set flat into one side of a tree grate and lays flush with the sidewalk.
    Subject: 
    Abstract -- Geometric
    Allegory -- Quality -- Wealth
    Object -- Furniture -- Chair
    Literature -- Smith
    Literature -- Parker
    Literature -- Rabelais
    Literature -- Miller
    Literature -- Nock
    Literature -- Pink Floyd
    Literature -- Ray
    Literature -- Cicero
    Literature -- Fitzgerald
    Literature -- Gerber
    Literature -- Byron
    Literature -- Brown
    Literature -- Stein
    Literature -- Dylan
    Literature -- Heywood
    Literature -- Horace
    Literature -- Syrus
    Literature -- Lennon
    Literature -- McCartney
    Literature -- Hemingway
    Literature -- Emerson
    Literature -- Foster
    Literature -- Herbert
    Literature -- Shakespeare
    Literature -- Franklin
    Literature -- Decker
    Literature -- Gray
    Literature -- Sophocles
    Religion -- New Testament -- I Timothy
    Literature -- Walton
    Literature -- Channel
    Literature -- Punch
    Literature -- Proverb
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Washington -- Seattle
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Seafirst Bank, Administrative Services Division, 800 5th Avenue, 20th Floor, P. O. Box 3977, Seattle, Washington 98214
    Located 2nd Avenue between Seneca & Spring Streets, Seattle, Washington
    Remarks: 
    IAS files contain copy of related article from Seattle Times, Nov. 15, 1990.
    References: 
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Washington survey, 1994.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS WA000536
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