The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Stolen Faces

1991

Annette Lemieux

(American, b. 1957)
America
color offset lithograph
Center: 76.6 x 111.8 cm (30 3/16 x 44 in.); Left: 76.5 x 56 cm (30 1/8 x 22 1/16 in.); Right: 76.7 x 55.8 cm (30 3/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1999.326
Location: Not on view

Description

Stolen Faces acknowledges the ubiquity of the photograph in our experience of the modern world. The "pixelated" faces of anonymous soldiers are presented so that they resemble people on television news shows who wish to hide their identities. A war photograph is represented on the right panel as the image would be seen on a black-and-white television while on the left is its color television counterpart. The central panel of the triptych further dramatizes the anonymity of war with an image of only the pixelated heads of soldiers, disembodied, as if vaporized by the technologies of war, photography, and electronic mass media.
  • Glaubinger, Jane. “Acquisition Highlights 2014: Fresh Prints.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 55, no. 2 (March/April 2015): 4-5. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 5 archive.org
  • Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 22-July 26, 2015).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art (3/22/2015 - 7/26/2015); "Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now"
  • {{cite web|title=Stolen Faces|url=false|author=Annette Lemieux|year=1991|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.326