id:			322080
accession number:	2019.278
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.278
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:22.412000

Suburbia: Nursing Your Baby, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, c. 1971. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print; image: 15.8 x 21.5 cm (6 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.); paper: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2019.278

title:				Nursing Your Baby, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
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series:				Suburbia
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creation date:			c. 1971
creation date earliest:		1966
creation date latest:		1976
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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: 15.8 x 21.5 cm (6 1/4 x 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “V0100/2500”
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	inscription:	Stamped in black ink on verso: “042081”
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	inscription:	Imprinted in black type on white paper label adhered to verso with cellophane tape: “R-1 Nursing your baby makes you closer to him than if you fed/him with a bottle. Most women don’t understand what that/closeness is.”
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	inscription:	Stamped in black ink on verso: “© PHOTO/BILL OWENS”
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	inscription:	Imprinted on white adhesive label on verso: “All rights reserved/This photo must be returned”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “Bill Owens (signed)
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	inscription:	Written in black ink on verso: [illegible number scribbled out and circled]”
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	inscription:	Written in black ink on verso: 17 (circled)”
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	inscription:	Written in blue ink on verso: “© BILL OWENS/BBM [stamped in black ink] Jeroboam, Inc [written in blue ink]”
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	inscription:	Written in black marker on verso: “R-1”
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	inscription:	Stamped in black ink on verso: “USE WITH/JEROBOAM INC. CREDIT LINE/RETURN TO CATEGORY
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	inscription:	Written in black ink on verso: “Use with Jeroboam Credit/Families-Mom/Nursing [remainder of title scribbled out]”
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	inscription:	Written in blue ink on verso: “BO-60-11/79”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “BOA0010”
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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 Stephanpoulos [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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