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Published References"Bill Owens: Suburbia," Straight Arrow Books, 1972, unpag. reference

"Bill Owens: Suburbia," fotofolio, 1999, p. 83 reference
DimensionsOverall: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Accession Number 2025.146
Classificationsphotograph
Edition3/15
Portfolio/Series"Suburbia" series
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
I don't feel that Richie playing with guns will have a negative effect on his personality. (He already wants to be a policeman). His childhood gun-playing won't make him into a cop-shooter. By playing with guns he learns to socialize with other children. I find the neighbors who are offended by Richie's gun, either the father hunts or their kids are the first to take Richie's gun and go off and play with it., from the "Suburbia" series
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Tyazheloe orudie (Heavy Gun), from "Vzelenskaja Voiná Ъ (Universal War)"
Aleksei Kruchenykh
1916
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Untitled (Man wearing high hat and tails, holding a shot gun - skeleton in back with both hands on man's anat. left shoulder, flying creatures in background)
Karl Mattern
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Boy aiming a gun, USA
Ken Heyman
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: Cpl. Frank Wilson, Piakskill, New York cleans 155 mm gun on Korean front while Cpl. Alfred Valader, New Bronfield, Texas, has a bite to eat, July 14, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: An American machine gun crew are well prepared for the enemy in the southwest sector of the Korean war zone. Left to right: Pfc. Richard Bowker, Cheyenne, South Dakota; Pfc. Carle Batty, Rock Island, Illinois; and Cpt. George E. Murphy, August, Georgia, August 7, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
As they pulled him out of the river I could see that his face was gone. He had been in about two weeks
Leonard Freed
1976
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Bileam (The Story of Balaam and the Ass). "Und die Eselin sahe den Engel des Herrn im wege stehen und ein blas Schwert in seiner Hand (And he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his drawn sword in his hand)…" (Numbers 22:31 - 23)
Georg Lemberger
ca.1530
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
"Et il avait dans sa main droite sept étoiles, et de sa bouche sortaitune e'pee aiguë adeux tranchants (And he had in his right hand seven stars...)," from the portfolio "Apocalypse de Saint-Jean"
Odilon Redon
1899
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
And He Carried in His Right Hand from Revelations of St. John
Odilon Redon
1899
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
South Korea: American wounded in battle in South Korea are evacuated by jeeps and litter from the front line. They pass a column of troops being moved up to the front. One man is going into battle well shaved as he soaps his face, July 10, 1950
1950
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
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