id: 161185 accession number: 1999.304 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.304 updated: Gardener's Huts, 1999. François Houtin (French, 1950-). Etching; sheet: 37.8 x 28.4 cm (14 7/8 x 11 3/16 in.); platemark: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer in memory of Robert Lundie Shearer 1999.304 title: Gardener's Huts title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1999 creation date earliest: 1999 creation date latest: 1999 current location: creditline: Gift of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer in memory of Robert Lundie Shearer copyright: --- culture: France, 20th century technique: etching department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * François Houtin (French, 1950-) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 37.8 x 28.4 cm (14 7/8 x 11 3/16 in.); Platemark: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: lower left in graphite: XIX/LX Houtin '99 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Imagining the Garden opening date: 2015-10-24T00:00:00 Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Richard Reed Armstrong, Chicago, IL, sold to Elizabeth Carroll Shearer, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Elizabeth Carroll Shearer, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: ?-1999 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1999- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Before working as a printmaker, François Houtin was renowned as a topiarist. digital description: The work of François Houtin, a landscape architect, typically presents utopian gardens which have grown uninhibited by the world around them. This etching belongs to a set of 14 in which the artist invented charming gardener sheds that blend nature and architecture into imaginative designs. wall description: Houtin, a landscape architect, also makes etchings of utopian gardens. In this suite of 14 prints he invented charming gardener sheds that blend nature and architecture into delightful, imaginative follies. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES