The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
On our commune everyone has to work. We chase off the freeloaders. The commune has to make money. It has to be a business, then it can grow. The government isn't going to take care of you. You have to band together to help each other. Taos, New Mexico
1976
(American, b. 1938)
Image: 21.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.); Paper: 25.3 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2019.299
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
There was a serious decline in job satisfaction in America in the last half of the 1970s.Description
In his examination of people’s attitudes towards their jobs, Owens gives us the subjects’ own words to accompany his images of them. The series was not as much a critique as a mirror that allowed people some distance from which to view their situation. This and his other projects conveyed both the comfort of suburban middle-class life and an undercurrent of dissatisfaction and disillusionment with it.- ?-2019George Stephanopoulos [1961-], New York, NYDecember 2, 2019The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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