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Memory Ware Flat #30
Mike Kelley (American, 1954–2012)
Title
Memory Ware Flat #30
Artist
Mike Kelley (American, 1954–2012)
Date
2001
Medium
beads, buttons, jewelry, pulp, tile grout, and acrylic
Dimensions
70 1/2 × 46 1/8 × 4 in. (179.1 × 117.2 × 10.2 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
The Phillip G. Schrager Collection. Gift of Terri L. Schrager
Object Number
2024.15.9
On View
On view
Copyright
© Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All Rights Reserved / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Provenance
Purchased from Contemporary Art Part II sale, Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, November 14, 2003, lot 119, 2003.
With Metro Pictures, New York, by 2004;
Purchased from Metro Pictures, New York, by Mr. Phillip G. Schrager (1937–2010), Omaha, Nebraska, November 13, 2004–2010;
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
Published References
“Lot 119: Mike Kelley,” in Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg Contemporary Art Part II, published in conjunction with the auction in New York, November 14, 2003 (New York: Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, 2003).
L. Kent Wolgamott, “You’ve Just Got to Look at It,” Lincoln Journal Star, July 17, 2007, K1–2.
Ralph Rugoff, Mike Kelly Memory Ware: A Survey, exh. cat. (Hauser & Wirth Publishers: New York, 2017), 144–45, 246, (repro.).
Karin Campbell, The Phillip G. Schrager Collection at the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2024), 70–71, 141, (repro.).