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The Great Western Sky
Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)
Title
The Great Western Sky
Artist
Philip Taaffe (American, b. 1955)
Date
1994
Medium
mixed media on canvas
Dimensions
102 x 120 in. (259.1 × 304.8 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
The Phillip G. Schrager Collection. Promised gift of Terri L. Schrager
Object Number
L-2021.3.41
On View
On view
Copyright
© Philip Taaffe; Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.
Provenance
Purchased from Gagosian Gallery, New York, by Mr. Phillip G. Schrager (1937–2010), Omaha, Nebraska, March 25, 1994–2010;
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
Philip Taaffe: Recent Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, April 9–May 14, 1994.
Paintings from the Phil Schrager Collection, University of Nebraska Omaha Art Gallery, August 28–September 25, 1998.
Published References
Oleg Grabar, Philip Taaffe: Recent Paintings, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery), 28–29, (repro.).
Roberta Smith, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, April 26, 1994, C26.
Stephen Croucher, “Schrager Collection Is Striking,” UNOmaha Gateway, September 4, 1998, 10.
Karin Campbell, The Phillip G. Schrager Collection at the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2024), 18, 126–27, 142, (repro.).
