id: 307525
accession number: 2017.309
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.309
updated: 2022-01-04 18:07:31.443000
Mini-Bike for Sale, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, c. 1970. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print (printed 2005); image: 33.5 x 43.6 cm (13 3/16 x 17 3/16 in.); paper: 40.4 x 50.4 cm (15 7/8 x 19 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2017.309
title: Mini-Bike for Sale, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
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creation date: c. 1970
creation date earliest: 1965
creation date latest: 1975
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creditline: Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
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culture: American, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print (printed 2005)
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1951-Present
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Bill Owens (American, b. 1938) - artist
American photographer, born 1938
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measurements: Image: 33.5 x 43.6 cm (13 3/16 x 17 3/16 in.); Paper: 40.4 x 50.4 cm (15 7/8 x 19 13/16 in.)
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edition of the work: 1/15
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “BO-1412M”
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “4000”
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “Bill Owens (signed)”
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inscription: Stamped in black ink on verso: “© BILL OWENS/EDITION 15/3AP/NUMBER 1 (written in pencil)/PRINTED 2005 (written in pencil)”
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “2476.1”
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso: “boA98LB136”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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fun fact:
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This quintessential image from Owens’s series Leisure addresses the deflation of the American Dream in the early 1970s America. The artist’s photographs convey both the smug comfort of suburban middle-class affluence and an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and disillusionment.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Owens, Bill, and Robert Harshorn Shimshak. Leisure. [New York, N.Y.]: Fotofolio, 2004.
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Claudia Zanfi (ed.), Bill Owens, Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2007. With an introduction by A.M. Holmes.
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