Bill Ritchie's art in the
Evonne Agnello Collection
Little Spaceship Crash
1977. Print. Intaglio, relief, stencil, litho. Ochre, red, blue, black, gray. Image 12 X 9 in on 15 X 11 3/4 in Van Gelder Zonen (natural, buff) paper. Artist's Proof. Signed lower right. Label on verso Impressions Workshop, Inc.. Exhibited in the Boston Printmaker's Exhibition where it won a purchase award.
Private collections: K. Beckley, Bryan, Dillon, Evans/Mee, Fuller-Schwab, Harrison, Hoffman, Jones, Kirkpatrick, Law, Lonay, Middleton, Parsons, Pepin, Pope, Praczukowski, L. Ritchie, Sparling/Beckley, Stanley and others.
Institutions and corporate collections: Baker University , USIA Tokyo, University of Washington, Norton Building (Seattle), Davis, Wright & Jones (Seattle), Teller Training Institute (WA), United Pacific Reliance Corp. (CA)
Artist's Comment: Spanning two years of development and about 75 impressions, Little Spaceship Crash was the seed for a larger work. These came out of the movie, Planet of the Apes. I like to tell the story about the path flown by the helicopter filming it, and then my entry into computers graphics and how I learned the X-Y-Z of IT. This print was test of methods I would need for a larger version, then the tests resulted in an edition that stood on its own.