The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 18, 2024

Mini-Bike for Sale, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

Mini-Bike for Sale, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California

c. 1970
(American, b. 1938)
American, 20th century
gelatin silver print (printed 2005)
Image: 33.5 x 43.6 cm (13 3/16 x 17 3/16 in.); Paper: 40.4 x 50.4 cm (15 7/8 x 19 13/16 in.)
Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2017.309
Location: not on view

Description

This quintessential image from Owens’s series Leisure addresses the deflation of the American Dream in the early 1970s America. The artist’s photographs convey both the smug comfort of suburban middle-class affluence and an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and disillusionment.
  • Owens, Bill, and Robert Harshorn Shimshak. Leisure. [New York, N.Y.]: Fotofolio, 2004.
    Claudia Zanfi (ed.), Bill Owens, Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2007. With an introduction by A.M. Holmes.
  • {{cite web|title=Mini-Bike for Sale, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California|url=false|author=Bill Owens|year=c. 1970|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.309