The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Black Walnuts, Vineyard Avenue Between Pleasanton and Livermore, California

c. 1975

Bill Owens

(American, b. 1938)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 17.6 x 11.9 cm (6 15/16 x 4 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.2 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2020.318
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.
  • ?-2020
    George Stephanpoulos [1961-], New York, NY
    December 7, 2020
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.318