The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Grenada High School, Livermore, California

1974

Bill Owens

(American, b. 1938)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 16.6 x 21.4 cm (6 9/16 x 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2019.285
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Since 1970, more Americans have lived in suburbs than in the cities they surround.

Description

In Suburbia, Bill Owens addresses suburban life in Northern California and the deflation of the American Dream in the 1970s. Contemporary photographer Gregory Crewdson likened Owens’s images of suburban America to the writings and pictures of Edward Hopper, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver in the way they “find unexpected beauty and mystery within the American vernacular.”
  • ?-2019
    George Stephanopoulos [1961-], New York, NY
    December 2, 2019
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.285