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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2019.278", "current_location": null, "title": "Nursing Your Baby, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California", "series": "Suburbia", "creation_date": "c. 1971", "creation_date_earliest": 1966, "creation_date_latest": 1976, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "America" ], "technique": "gelatin silver print", "support_materials": [], "department": "Photography", "collection": "PH - American 1951-Present", "type": "Photograph", "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.)", "dimensions": { "image": { "height": 0.158, "height_inch": 6, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 0.215, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.4375 }, "paper": { "height": 0.202, "height_inch": 7, "height_inch_fraction": 0.9375, "width": 0.252, "width_inch": 9, "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \u201cV0100/2500\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Stamped in black ink on verso: \u201c042081\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Imprinted in black type on white paper label adhered to verso with cellophane tape: \u201cR-1 Nursing your baby makes you closer to him than if you fed/him with a bottle. Most women don\u2019t understand what that/closeness is.\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Stamped in black ink on verso: \u201c\u00a9 PHOTO/BILL OWENS\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Imprinted on white adhesive label on verso: \u201cAll rights reserved/This photo must be returned\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \u201cBill Owens (signed)", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Written in black ink on verso: [illegible number scribbled out and circled]\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Written in black ink on verso: 17 (circled)\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Written in blue ink on verso: \u201c\u00a9 BILL OWENS/BBM [stamped in black ink] Jeroboam, Inc [written in blue ink]\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Written in black marker on verso: \u201cR-1\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Stamped in black ink on verso: \u201cUSE WITH/JEROBOAM INC. CREDIT LINE/RETURN TO CATEGORY", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Written in black ink on verso: \u201cUse with Jeroboam Credit/Families-Mom/Nursing [remainder of title scribbled out]\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Written in blue ink on verso: \u201cBO-60-11/79\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \u201cBOA0010\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Commercially imprinted throughout verso: \u201cAgfa\u201d", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "George Stephanpoulos [1961-], New York, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-2019", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "December 2, 2019", "sortorder": 2 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Since 1970, more Americans have lived in suburbs than in the cities they surround.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "In Suburbia, Bill Owens addresses suburban life in Northern California and the deflation of the American Dream in the 1970s. Contemporary photographer Gregory Crewdson likened Owens\u2019s 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 \u201cfind unexpected beauty and mystery within the American vernacular.\u201d", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84278919" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.278", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of George Stephanopoulos", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 322080, "creators": [ { "id": 291453, "description": "Bill Owens (American, b. 1938)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "American photographer, born 1938", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1938", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2019-12-02T00:00:00-05:00", "sortable_date": 1966, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1971", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:58.627000" } }