id: 322262 accession number: 2020.326 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.326 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:22.657000 Leisure: The middle class has no taste for art! I am not a great artist, but people think I am because I have long hair. Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1976, printed later. Bill Owens (American, b. 1938). Gelatin silver print; image: 16.3 x 20.9 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/4 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 2020.326 title: The middle class has no taste for art! I am not a great artist, but people think I am because I have long hair. Cape Cod, Massachusetts title in original language: series: Leisure series in original language: creation date: 1976, printed later creation date earliest: 1976 creation date latest: 1976 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: 16.3 x 20.9 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "0911M/1500" translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Bill Owens (signed)" translation: remark: inscription: Stamped in black ink on verso: "© BILL OWENS/EXTRA BOOK PRINT" translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "L112" 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: Watching television was the most popular American leisure pastime in the 1970s. digital description: Bill Owens began photographing while taking a visual anthropology course in college. He continued his systematic observation of human behavior and social structures as a staff photographer for a local newspaper and in personal photographic projects shot on the weekends. Leisure was the fourth such project, begun in the 1970s but not published in book form until 2004. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES