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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digital description: 
This quintessential image from Owens’s series <em>Leisure</em> 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.), <em>Bill Owens</em>, Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2007. With an introduction by A.M. Holmes.
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