id:			322085
accession number:	2019.280
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.280
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:22.443000

Our Kind of People: Halloween Party (Bats on Wall), Livermore, California, c. 1971. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print; image: 15.5 x 21.5 cm (6 1/8 x 8 7/16 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 2019.280

title:				Halloween Party (Bats on Wall), Livermore, California
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series:				Our Kind of People
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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: 15.5 x 21.5 cm (6 1/8 x 8 7/16 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: “V0116/3500”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “Bill Owens (signed)”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “Bill Owens (signed)”
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	inscription:	Written in blue marker on verso: “W-253”
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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:
Visiting the United States in the 1830s, French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans “were forever forming associations.”

digital description:
Owens’s project <em>Our Kind of People</em>, shot mostly in the 1970s, explored American groups and rituals ranging from the Girl Scouts to Halloween parties in his native Northern California. With club membership declining today in America, the kind of formal and informal associations documented by Owens are now an endangered species.

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