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The First Sea
Matthew Ritchie (British, b. 1964)
Title
The First Sea
Artist
Matthew Ritchie (British, b. 1964)
Date
2003
Medium
oil and marker on canvas
Dimensions
99 × 110 in. (251.5 × 279.4 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
The Phillip G. Schrager Collection. Promised gift of Terri L. Schrager
Object Number
L-2021.3.31
On View
On view
Copyright
© Matthew Ritchie
Provenance
Purchased from Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, by Mr. Phillip G. Schrager (1937–2010), Omaha, Nebraska, December 2, 2003–2010;
Inherited by his wife, Mrs. Terri L. Schrager (b. 1953), Omaha, Nebraska, by 2016;
Her promised gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.
Exhibition History
Published References
Solenne Ducos, “The Boom of Painting,” University of New South Wales, http://artwrite.cofa.unsw.edu.au/0432/s-solenne.htm, (repro.).
Janet Farber, “Collector Phillip Schrager,” interview by Michael Krainak, Artland, Spring 2012, 21.
Lynn Herbert, Matthew Ritchie: Proposition Player, exh. cat. (Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2003), frontispiece, 5, 10, 13, 14, 71, (repro.).
Bonnie Clearwater, Matthew Ritchie, Suzanne Weaver, Jenelle Porter, and Daniel Birnbaum, Matthew Ritchie: Incomplete Projects 01–07 (N.P.: Wild Card Crew, 2006), SSl14, (repro.).
Will Simons, “Go West: Philanthropist Phil Schrager offers a choice collection of contemporary art,” Omaha City Weekly, May 2–8, 2007, 36, (repro.).
Klaus Kertess, Thom Mayne, Matthew Ritchie, Carter Scholz, Jonathan Lethem, Elizabeth M. Grady, Shelley Jackson, and Ander Monson, Matthew Ritchie: More Than the Eye (New York: Rizzoli, 2008), n.p., (repro.).
Karin Campbell, The Phillip G. Schrager Collection at the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2024), 14, 102–3, 141, (repro.).