The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 23, 2025
The forty-fifth annual Thanksgiving dinner for the descendants of the Roy and Nellie Newfarmer family was the highlight of our year. When there are seventy people for dinner you have to be organized. We have carving and serving committees, games and a family quilt everyone sews on. A silent auction pays for the three turkeys. More families should be proud of their heritage. Tri-Valley Area, Northern California
1969–75
(American, b. 1938)
Image: 19 x 24 cm (7 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2019.282
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Visiting the United States in the 1830s, French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans “were forever forming associations.”Description
Owens’s project Our Kind of People, shot mostly in the 1970s, explored American groups and rituals ranging from the Girl Scouts to Halloween parties in his native Northern California. With club membership declining today in America, the kind of formal and informal associations documented by Owens are now an endangered species.- ?-2019George Stephanopoulos [1961-], New York, NYDecember 2, 2019The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.282