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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Bill Owens

Selected Images from Suburbia

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October 17, 04:46 PM GMT

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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Bill Owens

b. 1938

Selected Images from Suburbia


a group of 3 gelatin silver prints, comprising 'My Husband, Pat, Has a Theory About Watering Our Newly Seeded Lawn'; 'Our House is Built with the Living Room in the Back...'; and 'I Don't Feel that Ritchie Playing with Guns Will Have a Negative Effect on His Personality...', variously signed and annotated in ink and pencil in the margins and on the reverse, each with an overmat with an affixed text panel, framed

images from: 5½ by 8½ in. (14 by 21.6 cm.) to 10⅜ by 8⅞ in. (26.4 x 22.6 cm.) or the reverse

frames from: 15 by 18 in. (38.1 by 45.7 cm.) to 20½ by 16⅜ in. (52 by 41.6 cm.) or the reverse

Executed 1968-1974.

'My Husband, Pat, Has a Theory About Watering Our Newly Seeded Lawn' and 'Our House is Built with the Living Room in the Back...'

Robert Shimshak 

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York 

Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner


'I Don't Feel that Ritchie Playing with Guns Will Have a Negative Effect on His Personality...'

Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles/New York 

Paul Morris Gallery, New York 

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner

'My Husband, Pat, Has a Theory About Watering Our Newly Seeded Lawn'

Robert Harshorn Shimshak, ed., Suburbia Bill Owens (New York, 1973), p. 23


'Our House is Built with the Living Room in the Back...'

Robert Harshorn Shimshak, ed., Suburbia Bill Owens (New York, 1973), p. 115


'I Don't Feel that Ritchie Playing with Guns Will Have a Negative Effect on His Personality...'

Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection (New York, 2021), pp. 344 and 417