"The collectors Eric Richter and Charles Shoener have wide-ranging tastes, reflected in their homes on Manhattan's Upper West Side and on an island in Maine. Their collection spans abstraction by Edward Zutrau, Thomas Müller, Jose Dávila and Ishmael Randall-Weeks, conceptual works by Walead Beshty, Jannis Kounellis and Sophie Calle, and sculpture by Ivan Argote. In 2022, the couple-Richter is a manager at the financial services firm the Capital Group,"
"I didn't think of it as a work of art at the time, but in my late 20s, I bought an anonymous photograph of the Castel Sant'Angelo from an antique shop in an exurb of St Louis. I definitely had the view that the desire to own art was absurd, because there were so many museums and public venues with an essentially limitless supply of masterpieces."
"The backing had deteriorated, so when I got home I opened it up and found the photo was supported by torn folded pages of an 1890s issue of a periodical on steam boilers. I had never been to Rome, and the object instantly became a portal both to an exotic place and the time of its making, so that much to my chagrin, I started a personal relationship with this now mesmerising work."
Eric Richter and Charles Shoener maintain residences on Manhattan's Upper West Side and on an island in Maine. Their collection spans abstraction by Edward Zutrau, Thomas Müller, Jose Dávila and Ishmael Randall-Weeks; conceptual works by Walead Beshty, Jannis Kounellis and Sophie Calle; and sculpture by Ivan Argote. In 2022 the couple donated a Zanele Muholi photo triptych to the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, where Richter has served on the board of trustees since 2014. Richter's first purchase was an anonymous Castel Sant'Angelo photograph found in an antique shop, later revealed to be supported by torn 1890s periodical pages. The most recent acquisition was a Rachel Whiteread door. A sought-after portrait eluded acquisition.
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