id:			322275
accession number:	2019.292
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.292
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:22.687000

Our Kind of People: Honoring your parents, especially your mother, is one of the teaching of DeMolay. Leadership training, love of country, love of parents and the dress code all help to build character so that young men can become Masons or go on in life with the teachings of brotherhood. During DeMolay Week, members pay respect to mothers who have passed on, 1972. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print; image: 14.8 x 21.4 cm (5 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.); paper: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2019.292

title:				Honoring your parents, especially your mother, is one of the teaching of DeMolay. Leadership training, love of country, love of parents and the dress code all help to build character so that young men can become Masons or go on in life with the teachings of brotherhood. During DeMolay Week, members pay respect to mothers who have passed on
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series:				Our Kind of People
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creation date:			1972
creation date earliest:		1972
creation date latest:		1972
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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: 14.8 x 21.4 cm (5 13/16 x 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “BO-1069 4000”
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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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CURRENT 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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