The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of June 9, 2026

A vertically oriented color offset lithograph depicts a dense gathering of approximately twenty figures in green and tan camouflage uniforms and helmets. Facing forward in rows, they fill the frame against sandy ground. Each person's face is obscured by a rectangular grid of pixelated brown and tan blocks. They wear gear over their shoulders, with chin straps visible. Bright light creates deep shadows under helmet brims against their light to medium-light skin.

Stolen Faces

1991

Annette Lemieux

(American, b. 1957)
published by

I.C. Editions

America
color offset lithograph
Sheet: 76.5 x 56 cm (30 1/8 x 22 1/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1999.326.a
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. "Fresh Prints: Take a look at the museum's contemporary print acquisitions over the past 25 years.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 55, no. 2 (March/April 2015): 4-5. Reproduced: p. 5; Mentioned: p. 4 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"
    From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art (9/17/2000 - 11/26/2000); "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints."
  • {{cite web|title=Stolen Faces|url=false|author=Annette Lemieux, I.C. Editions|year=1991|access-date=09 June 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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