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The Tender Boy
Jim Dine (American, b. 1935)

Title

The Tender Boy

Artist

Jim Dine (American, b. 1935)

Date

2004

Medium

paint on carved wood

Dimensions

90 × 53 × 24 in. (228.6 × 134.6 × 61 cm)

Classification

Sculpture

Credit Line

The Phillip G. Schrager Collection. Gift of Terri L. Schrager

Object Number

2024.15.3

On View

On view

Copyright

© Jim Dine / Arists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Provenance

With Pace Wildenstein, New York, 2004.
With Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, by 2005;
Purchased from Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, by Mr. Phillip G. Schrager (1937–2010), Omaha, Nebraska, May 16, 2005–2010;
Inherited by his wife, Mrs. Terri L. Schrager (b. 1953), Omaha, Nebraska, by 2016;
Her gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2024.

Exhibition History

Jim Dine: Pinocchio As I Knew Him, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, April 5–June 17, 2005.

Published References

Jim Dine, “Jim Dine on Pinocchio,” interview by Paul Gray, in Jim Dine: Pinocchio As I Knew Him, exh. cat. (Chicago: Richard Gray Gallery, 2005), front cover, back cover, n.p., (repro.).

Candi Puren, “Gallery View,” One Magazine, July 2006, 57, (repro.).

Phil Rooney, “Size of Schrager's Growing Art Collection Merits New, Much Bigger Galleries,” Omaha Daily Record, September 5, 2006, 1, (repro.).

Will Simons, “Go West: Philanthropist Phil Schrager Offers a Choice Collection of Contemporary Art,” Omaha City Weekly, May 2–8, 2007, 37, (repro.).

L. Kent Wolgamott, “Art Education” Lincoln Journal Star, July 22, 2007, 6K.

Dane Stickney, “No More Artful Dodger,” Omaha World-Herald, May 1, 2008, E1, (repro.).

Gabriele Conrath-Scholl and Susanne Lange, This is how I remember, now: Portraits, Photographs by Jim Dine, exh. cat. (Gottingen: Steidl Publishers, 2008), 52, 104, 134, (repro.).

Janet Farber, “Collector Phillip Schrager,” interview by Michael Krainak, Artland, Spring 2012, 18–19, 21, (repro.).

Karin Campbell, The Phillip G. Schrager Collection at the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2024), 42–43, 141, (repro.).