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Published References"Bill Owens: Leisure," fotofolio, 2004, p. 86
DimensionsOverall: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Accession Number 2025.150
Classificationsphotograph
Edition1/15
Portfolio/Series"Leisure" series
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
...among the blades between the flowers... while the horse watches... for those who bear/bare witness
Ebony G. Patterson
2018
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
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
Bill Owens
1971, printed 2000
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
"et le diable qui les séduisait, fut jeté dans l'étang de feu et de soufre, ou est la bête et le faux prophète (and the devil who seduced them was thrown into the lake of fire)" from the portfolio "Apocaplypse de Saint-Jean"
Odilon Redon
1899
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
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
Bill Owens
1976, 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
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
"Après cela je vis descendre du ciel un ange qui avait la clef de l'abÎme, et une grande chaine en sa main (After that I saw an angel descend from heaven who had the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand)" from the portfolio "Apocalypse de Saint-Jean"
Odilon Redon
1899
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
The actor Nakamura Fukusuke I in his role as Goro in the play "Yayoi-zakura hisago no makubari", from the series "Imayo oshie kagami (The Mirror of Today's Pictures)"
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
1860
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
Beggar Seated on a Grassy bank, his Wares Displayed in a Box Suspended from a Strap Across his Right Shoulder, from the series "Beggars and Other Low Life"
Jan Georg van Vliet
1632
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Baudelaire de profile en chapeau (Baudelaire in profile, wearing a hat), as published in "Charles Asselineau Charles Baudelaire, sa vie et son oeuvre (Charles Baudelaire, His Life and His Work)", 1869
Édouard Manet
etched in 1862, published in 1869
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Charles Baudelaire, de Face as (Charles Baudenaire, three-quarters view), published in "Charles Asselineau, Charles Baudelaire, sa vie et son oeuvre (Charles Asselineau, Charles Baudelaire, His Life and His Work)", 1869
Édouard Manet
etched in 1865, published in 1869