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
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series:				Leisure
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creation date:			1976, printed later
creation date earliest:		1976
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: 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.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "0911M/1500"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "Bill Owens (signed)"
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	inscription:	Stamped in black ink on verso: "© BILL OWENS/EXTRA BOOK PRINT"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "L112"
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	George Stephanpoulos [1961-], New York, NY
	date: ?-2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 7, 2020
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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. <em>Leisure </em>was the fourth such project, begun in the 1970s but not published in book form until 2004.

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