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Published References"Bill Owens: Leisure," fotofolio, 2004, p. 41 (variant)
DimensionsOverall: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Accession Number 2025.140
Classificationsphotograph
Edition1/15 (no more than two prints ever made)
Portfolio/Series"Leisure" series
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Everywhere we go we challenge the local high school team to a game. We let them win. It’s all for charity. Points don’t count unless you shoot from the back of the donkey. Donkeys are dumb and uncooperative, and they really hate to move. Livermore, California, from the "Leisure" series
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Being a broker is the old "buy'em low, sell 'em high game. After the one o'clock bell, brokers have fifteen minutes to close their market orders. This is done by shouting your bids and positioning your hands. Palms out means sell, palms in means buy. I can assure you it's a fun game to win. San Francisco, California, from the "Working" series
Bill Owens
1976, printed 2006
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
I have to keep in shape. It’s hard work being a realtor. Livermore, California, from the "Leisure" series
Bill Owens
1974, printed 1999
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
There does come a time
When laughs become sighs;
We put all to rest,
We said our goodbyes.
Robyn O'Neil
2009
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
For his fifth birthday I took my son Max and his six friends to the Ringling Brothers circus at the Oakland Coliseum. It was all I could do to keep them under control and not lose anyone in the crowd. As party favors I bought each of them batter-powered plastic swords with flame blades and dragons on the handles. It was easy to find them as the sword blades glowed in the dark. Livermore, California, from the "Leisure" series
Bill Owens
1973, printed 1999
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
L'âne (The Donkey), from "Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de Buffon (Histoire naturelle)"
Pablo Picasso
1936, published 1942
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Rick Doerring: If There Is No Ready Answer, If There Is No Logical Explanation For the Pain of Those Dying or the Fear of Those Who Are Ill, For the Grief of Those Left Behind — If There is No Answer, There Is for Us Assuredly a Response. We Must Love Eac
Tilly Woodward
1995
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
What Shall We Do Next?
Winslow Homer
July 31, 1869
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
We Shall Overcome, from the portfolio "Nine Drawings"
Ben Shahn
1965
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Mein Greitel Wir Mosen Dansen E! (My Girl, We Must Dance, Hey!)
Peter Maes
1577
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
We are Pro-Choice
Nancy Spero
1992
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Nancy: There Is a Destiny Which Makes Us Brothers. None Goes His Way Alone. All That We Send Into the Lives of Others Comes Back Into Our Own. I am a Daughter, Sister, a Friend, a Lover, a Mother. I am You.
Tilly Woodward
1995
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Oh! Les Fleurs! Nous Adorons les Fleurs! (Oh! The Flowers! We Love the Flowers!)
Louis Legrand
late 19th/early 20th century