The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Mini-Bike for Sale, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
c. 1970, printed 2005
(American, b. 1938)
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.)
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.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.309