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Feb 12, 2019
Feb 12, 2019
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)
Gelatin silver print (printed 2005)
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.)
Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2017.309
Edition: 1/15
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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.
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