id:			322003
accession number:	2019.275
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.275
updated:		2022-10-29 17:59:24.104000

Working: Kaiser Chemist, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, 1974–76. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print; image: 16.3 x 21.6 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/2 in.); paper: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2019.275

title:				Kaiser Chemist, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
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series:				Working
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creation date:			1974–76
creation date earliest:		1974
creation date latest:		1976
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of George Stephanopoulos
copyright:			

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culture:	America
technique:	gelatin silver print
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: 16.3 x 21.6 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “Bill Owens (signed)”
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	inscription:	Written in black ink on verso: “© Bill Owens/Jeroboam, Inc.”
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	inscription:	Stamped in red ink on verso: “USE WITH/JEROBOAM INC. CREDIT LINE/RETURN TO CATEGORY:”
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	inscription:	Written in black ink on verso: “Health/Exams & Clinics”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “V0252 4000”
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	inscription:	Written in red ink on verso: “BO250-11/82”
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	inscription:	Commercially imprinted throughout verso: “Agfa”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	George Stephanopoulos [1961-], New York, NY
	date: ?-2019
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 2, 2019
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fun fact: 
There was a serious decline in job satisfaction in America in the last half of the 1970s.

digital description: 
In his examination of people’s attitudes towards their jobs, Owens gives us the subjects’ own words to accompany his images of them. The series was not as much a critique as a mirror that allowed people some distance from which to view their situation. This and his other projects conveyed both the comfort of suburban middle-class life and an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and disillusionment with it.

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