id:			161185
accession number:	1999.304
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.304
updated:		2022-01-04 17:27:51.747000

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
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creation date:			1999
creation date earliest:		1999
creation date latest:		1999
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creditline:			Gift of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer in memory of Robert Lundie Shearer
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culture:	France, 20th century
technique:	etching
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* François Houtin (French, 1950-)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 37.8 x 28.4 cm (14 7/8 x 11 3/16 in.); Platemark: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	lower left in graphite: XIX/LX    Houtin '99
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Imagining the Garden
	opening date:   2015-10-24T00:00:00
	<i>Imagining the Garden</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Richard Reed Armstrong, Chicago, IL, sold to Elizabeth Carroll Shearer, Cleveland, OH)
	date: ?-?
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	Elizabeth Carroll Shearer, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: ?-1999
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1999-
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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.
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