id:			452736
accession number:	2022.28
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.28
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:35.906000

David Cowboy, 1982, printed later. Judy Gelles (American, 1944–2020). Archival pigment print with original handwriting; paper: 48.9 x 59.1 cm (19 1/4 x 23 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Gelles Family and Pentimenti Gallery 2022.28

title:				David Cowboy
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creation date:			1982, printed later
creation date earliest:		1982
creation date latest:		1982
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creditline:			Gift of the Gelles Family and Pentimenti Gallery
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culture:	America, 20th  century
technique:	archival pigment print with original handwriting
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Judy Gelles (American, 1944–2020)  - artist
American photographer, born 1944
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measurements: Paper: 48.9 x 59.1 cm (19 1/4 x 23 1/4 in.)
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Estate of the Artist
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	(Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA), given to The Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-2022
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 7, 2022-
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fun fact:
A stay-at-home mother with two young children, Judy Gelles enrolled in a class at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1977 to learn to take the perfect baby picture.

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Gelles’s goal as a photographer changed the following year, as the difficulties of parenting increased and the feminist movement burgeoned. She began the <em>Family Portrait </em>series, Gelles said, “to break through the veneer of the Happy Family and the Content Mother and to expose the hidden and mundane events of family life. . . . These photographs were microcosmic of the Feminist reaction against the charade of the idyllic home life."

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