id: 322094 accession number: 2020.321 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.321 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:22.491000 Our Kind of People: Kids with Thanksgiving Hats, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, 1969–75. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print; image: 16.4 x 24.1 cm (6 7/16 x 9 1/2 in.); paper: 20.2 x 25.3 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2020.321 title: Kids with Thanksgiving Hats, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California title in original language: series: Our Kind of People series in original language: creation date: 1969–75 creation date earliest: 1969 creation date latest: 1975 current location: creditline: Gift of George Stephanopoulos copyright: --- culture: America technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Bill Owens (American, b. 1938) - artist American photographer, born 1938 --- measurements: Image: 16.4 x 24.1 cm (6 7/16 x 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.3 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "V0328 4000" translation: remark: inscription: Written in blue marker on verso: "G-12" translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Bill Owens (signed)" translation: remark: inscription: Commercially imprinted throughout verso: "Agfa" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE George Stephanpoulos [1961-], New York, NY date: ?-2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 7, 2020 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Visiting the United States in the 1830s, French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans “were forever forming associations.” digital description: Owens’ project Our Kind of People, 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES