The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 28, 2024
Gardener's Huts
1999
(French, 1950-)
Sheet: 37.8 x 28.4 cm (14 7/8 x 11 3/16 in.); Platemark: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Before working as a printmaker, François Houtin was renowned as a topiarist.Description
The work of François Houtin, a landscape architect, typically presents utopian gardens which have grown uninhibited by the world around them. This etching belongs to a set of 14 in which the artist invented charming gardener sheds that blend nature and architecture into imaginative designs.- ?-?(Richard Reed Armstrong, Chicago, IL, sold to Elizabeth Carroll Shearer, Cleveland, OH)?-1999Elizabeth Carroll Shearer, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH1999-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).
- {{cite web|title=Gardener's Huts|url=false|author=François Houtin|year=1999|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.304