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How To Be
Jonathan Lasker (American, b. 1948)
Title
How To Be
Artist
Jonathan Lasker (American, b. 1948)
Date
1990
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
100 × 125 in. (254 × 317.5 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
The Phillip G. Schrager Collection. Gift of Terri L. Schrager
Object Number
2024.15.10
On View
On view
Copyright
© Jonathan Lasker
Provenance
With Sperone Westwater, New York, by 2000;
Purchased from Sperone Westwater, New York, by Mr. Phillip G. Schrager (1937–2010), Omaha, Nebraska, February 25, 2000–2010;
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
Jonathan Lasker, Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, 1991.
Jonathan Lasker, Sperone Westwater, New York, October 28–November 2, 1991.
Jonathan Lasker: Gemälde/Paintings 1977–1997, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, November 30, 1997–January 25, 1998, no. 39. Traveled to: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, February 8–April 19, 1998; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, May 2–June 28, 1998.
Ideas for the Home: Bogin, Fontana, Halley, Lasker, Turcato, Warhol, Sperone Westwater, New York, September 11–October 31, 1998.
Jonathan Lasker: 1977–2003, pinturas, dibujos, estudios, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, June 5–September 7, 2003, no. 86. Traveled as Jonathan Lasker: 1977–2003, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Studien to: K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, September 20–November 23, 2003.
Published References
Kirby Gookin, Rainer Crone, and David Moos, Jonathan Lasker, exh. cat. (New York: Sperone Westwater, 1991), n.p., (repro.).
Hans-Michael Herzog, ed., Jonathan Lasker: Gemälde/Paintings 1977–1997, exh. cat. (Ostfildern-Ruit: Cantz Verlag, 1997), 84, (repro.).
Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1986–1997, exh. cat. (Issoire: Association Art Contemporain, 1998), 47.
Michael Auping and David Moos, Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity/Paintings from the 1990s, exh. cat. (Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1999), 94, (repro.).
Anna Minola, Maria Cristina Mundici, Francesco Poli, and Maria Teresa Roberto, Gian Enzo Sperone: Torino Roma New York, 35 anni di mostre tra Europa e America, vol. 2 (Turin: Hopefulmonster Editore, 2000), 402, (repro.).
Demetrio Paparoni, ed., Jonathan Lasker Paintings 1977–2001 (Milan: Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore, 2002), 90, (repro.).
Alice Thorson, “Oh My, Omaha,” Kansas City Star, April 6, 2003, J1, (repro.).
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, ed., Jonathan Lasker: 1977–2003, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Studien, exh. cat. (Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2003), 26, 86, 139, 145, (repro.).
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, ed., Jonathan Lasker 1977–2003: Paintings, Drawings, Studies, trans. Ian Pepper, exh. cat. (Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2003), 26, 86, 139, 145, (repro.).
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, ed., Jonathan Lasker: 1977–2003, pinturas, dibujos, estudios, exh. cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2003), 27, 88, 108, (repro.).
Pamela Thompson, “Masterpiece Theater: Sheldon Forum Members Tour an Art Lover's Paradise in Omaha,” L Magazine, March 2004, 20, (repro.).
L. Kent Wolgamott, “You've Just Got to Look at It,” Lincoln Journal Star, July 17, 2007, K1–2.
Karin Campbell, The Phillip G. Schrager Collection at the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2024), 72–73, 141, (repro.).