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        "tombstone": "Working: House Painter, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, 1974\u201376. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print; image: 17.7 x 14.5 cm (6 15/16 x 5 11/16 in.); paper: 25.2 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2019.277",
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        "title": "House Painter, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California",
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                "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \u201cHouse Painter\u201d",
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                "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \u201cBill Owens (signed)\u201d",
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                "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \u201c30-1100 3500\u201d",
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                "description": "George Stephanopoulos [1961-], New York, NY",
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        "did_you_know": "There was a serious decline in job satisfaction in America in the last half of the 1970s.",
        "description": "In his examination of people\u2019s attitudes towards their jobs, Owens gives us the subjects\u2019 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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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:01:44.729000"
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