The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 21, 2023

Gardener's Huts

1999

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François Houtin

(French, 1950-)

France, 20th century

Etching

Sheet: 37.8 x 28.4 cm (14 7/8 x 11 3/16 in.); Platemark: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.)

Gift of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer in memory of Robert Lundie Shearer 1999.304

Location

not on view

Fun Fact

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.

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower left in graphite: XIX/LX Houtin '99

Provenance
?-?
(Richard Reed Armstrong, Chicago, IL, sold to Elizabeth Carroll Shearer, Cleveland, OH)
?-1999
Elizabeth Carroll Shearer, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1999-
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history

Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.304