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Illustration to Promote the Release of the Screaming Trees' "Dust" Album
Performing artist
Screaming Trees
Artist
Alan Forbes
Printer
Artrock
Date1996
Mediumpaper (fiber product); ink
DimensionsOverall (HWD): 27 5/16 × 21 9/16 in. (69.374 × 54.769 cm)
Credit LineMoPOP permanent collection
Object number1997.528.6
Text EntriesArtist Alan Forbes (b. 1968) created this illustration to promote the release of Screaming Trees' seventh and final album, Dust, released June 25, 1996.
Taking their name from a guitar distortion pedal, Screaming Trees were formed in Ellensburg, Washington in 1985 by singer Mark Lanegan (b. 1964), guitarist Gary Lee Conner (b.1962), bassist Van Conner (b. 1967), and drummer Mark Pickeral (birthdate unknown). Barrett Martin (b. 1967) replaced Pickeral in 1992 and was the drummer on the band’s most successful albums.
Screaming Trees is one of the bands that pioneered the Grunge musical style. Despite finding early success and being one of the first Grunge bands to sign with a major label, Epic Records in 1989, due to their erratic output, Screaming Trees never saw the same level of success as other Northwest bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam.
Following the June 25, 2000, opening concert for the Experience Music Project, now MoPOP, the group announced their official breakup. After the breakup, Lanegan pursued a successful solo career and worked on other projects including the band, Queens of the Stone Age and, after moving to Ireland in 2021 announced a new collaborative project Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe with Joe Cardamone of The Icarus Line. Van Conner went on to form the bands VALIS and Musk Ox, and Gary Lee Conner formed a new band in 2010, Microdot Gnome, and in 2020 released two solo endeavors, Revelations in Fuzz and The Opposite of Christmas.
Black and white hand-drawn illustration, thick scalloped framing with “Screaming Trees” at the top and “Dust, June 25, 1996” at the bottom in handwritten, outline lettering. The middle section contains a line drawing of two trees with twisted trunks and limbs, clouds, and grass covered ground. In the middle is an inverted scythe, winged hourglass surrounded by a wooden frame, the top of the hourglass containing a dripping heart circled with barbed wire and flames coming out of the top, the bottom hourglass contains dark liquid.
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