id:			322004
accession number:	2019.276
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.276
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:22.015000

Suburbia: Young Girls Blowing Cup Bubbles Near a Stream, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, 1969–75. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print; image: 14.1 x 21.2 cm (5 9/16 x 8 3/8 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 2019.276

title:				Young Girls Blowing Cup Bubbles Near a Stream, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
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series:				Suburbia
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creation date:			1969–75
creation date earliest:		1969
creation date latest:		1975
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creditline:			Gift of George Stephanopoulos
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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: 14.1 x 21.2 cm (5 9/16 x 8 3/8 in.); Paper: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “V0352/4000”
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	inscription:	Written in blue marker on verso: “G-21”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “Bill Owens (signed)”
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	inscription:	Commercially imprinted throughout verso: “Agfa”
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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:
Since 1970, more Americans have lived in suburbs than in the cities they surround.

digital description:
In <em>Suburbia,</em> Bill Owens addresses suburban life in Northern California and the deflation of the American Dream in the 1970s. Contemporary photographer Gregory Crewdson likened Owens’s images of suburban America to the writings and pictures of Edward Hopper, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver in the way they “find unexpected beauty and mystery within the American vernacular.”

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