The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Gardener's Huts

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)
    ?-1999
    Elizabeth Carroll Shearer, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    1999-
    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