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Dec 6, 2023 · The archive was purchased by Lilly Library from Chrisann Verges, an award-winning producer, and Ricky Jay’s spouse. “I am so pleased that my husband’s archives and spirit photography collection will have a home at the Lilly Library,” Verges said.
Oct 19, 2021 · “It was a joy.” Verges first approached a few institutions about acquiring the entire collection, but they deemed it too diverse. She then invited representatives from Sotheby’s auction house to...
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Verges first approached a few institutions about acquiring the entire collection, but they deemed it too diverse. She then invited representatives from Sotheby’s auction house to explore Jay’s accumulated treasure, which occupied nearly every shelf, drawer and display case in their two-story house.
Dec 6, 2023 · In fall 2023, the Lilly Library used its Solcum Room to display a few of the hundreds of spirit photographs in the Ricky Jay collection. The Lilly Library also acquired Jay’s remarkable collection of historical spirit photography, one of the most significant such collections ever assembled.
Jan 31, 2016 · A couple of weeks earlier, he and his wife, Chrisann Verges, had arrived from Los Angeles at their pied-à-terre on the Upper West Side. ... Among the twenty-six works from Jay’s collection, for ...
Oct 23, 2021 · Selby Kiffer, Sotheby's international senior specialist for books and manuscripts, was one of two experts from the auction house to visit Verges at home in California and select what they wanted...
Nov 4, 2020 · In 2017 we purchased Jay’s extensive collection, and in the fall of that same year, we began the process of inventorying all the parts and packing them up (doing our best to organize as we went). After that, the collection was moved from Tampa, Florida to Granite Falls, Minnesota, where it is now permanently housed.
