The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 22, 2024
The middle class has no taste for art! I am not a great artist, but people think I am because I have long hair. Cape Cod, Massachusetts
1976, printed later
(American, b. 1938)
Image: 16.3 x 20.9 cm (6 7/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2020.326
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Watching television was the most popular American leisure pastime in the 1970s.Description
Bill Owens began photographing while taking a visual anthropology course in college. He continued his systematic observation of human behavior and social structures as a staff photographer for a local newspaper and in personal photographic projects shot on the weekends. Leisure was the fourth such project, begun in the 1970s but not published in book form until 2004.- ?-2020George Stephanpoulos [1961-], New York, NYDecember 7, 2020The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.326