Mini-Bike for Sale, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

c. 1970
(American, b. 1938)
Image: 33.5 x 43.6 cm (13 3/16 x 17 3/16 in.); Paper: 40.4 x 50.4 cm (15 7/8 x 19 13/16 in.)
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Location: not on view

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This quintessential image from Owens’s series Leisure addresses the deflation of the American Dream in the early 1970s America. The artist’s photographs convey both the smug comfort of suburban middle-class affluence and an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and disillusionment.
Mini-Bike for Sale, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

Mini-Bike for Sale, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

c. 1970

Bill Owens

(American, b. 1938)
American, 20th century

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