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Exhibition History"Director's Choice," thirty-four works of art purchased with the Director's Discretionary Fund, 1973-1982 - a gift to the Des Moines Art Center from the Gardner and Florence Call Cowles Foundation, color cat. repro.

"Selected Cowles Family Gifts to the Permanent Collection," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

"Commitment, Community and Controversy: The Des Moines Art Center Collections," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, January 24, 1998 - May 10, 1998
DimensionsSheet: 45 7/16 × 30 in. (115.4 × 76.2 cm)
Accession Number 1976.91
Classificationswork on paper
InscriptionsLuther Utterback 1976 (on verso l/l) Titled: in image (upper right center)
Omphalos
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Wangechi Mutu
ca. 2000
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Anna Gaskell
2004
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William T. Wiley
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Walt Kuhn
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Dorothy Dehner
1947
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Marlene Dumas
1996
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Wayne K. Nowack
1951
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Charles Oscar
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William T. Wiley
1975