San José Museum of Art

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    REVISITED ONLINE: May 26, 2020 – Ongoing
    Organized by Lauren Schell Dickens, curator

    Permanent Collection Works in the Exhibition

    Works on view for The House Imaginary.

    A pencil drawing of a room, furnished with a small round table with two chairs and a lamp. A fireplace mantel displays a candle holder, a potted plant, and small portrait. The angle is as though it's drawn from above the room.

    Gertrude Bleiberg
    Our Home, from the "Quincy series," 1974-76
    Etching on paper, 11 × 15 inches
    Gift of Diana and Deborah Jacobson, Wendy Maybaum and Victoria Zatkin in memory of our mother Gertrude T. Bleiberg

    A pencil drawing of a dining room. The perspective is from above. A medium sized table is surrounded by 4 chairs on a rug. There are 4 candles and a centerpiece on the table. A large window in the background has many bottles on the sill.

    Gertrude Bleiberg
    How Many Happy Times!, from the "Quincy series," 1974-76
    Etching on paper, 11 × 15 inches
    Gift of Diana and Deborah Jacobson, Wendy Maybaum and Victoria Zatkin in memory of our mother Gertrude T. Bleiberg

    A pencil drawing of a house nestled against a hillside. The house is L-shaped with a single car garage and an outward opening arched front door. There is no shading, only simple clean lines.

    Gertrude Bleiberg
    We Always Come Through The Front Door, from the "Quincy series," 1974-76
    Etching on paper, 11 × 15 inches
    Gift of Diana and Deborah Jacobson, Wendy Maybaum and Victoria Zatkin in memory of our mother Gertrude T. Bleiberg

    A pencil drawing of a living room, furnished with an armchair with several rips. A large chest sits in center of the room with a wall mounted pendulum clock, 6 pictures hang on the wall. There is a large free standing plant and a hanging plant.

    Gertrude Bleiberg
    Home- Diana and Norm, from the "Quincy series," 1974-76
    Etching on paper, 11 × 15 inches
    Gift of Diana and Deborah Jacobson, Wendy Maybaum and Victoria Zatkin in memory of our mother Gertrude T. Bleiberg

    A pencil drawing of a family room, with a couch in the center surrounded by a piano, rocking chair, armchair, bookshelf, and fireplace. The view is from above and at a diagonal angle. A freestanding plant and ceiling plant are between the chairs.

    Gertrude Bleiberg
    Home- Debby and Jim, from the "Quincy series," 1974-76
    Etching on paper, 11 × 15 inches
    Gift of Diana and Deborah Jacobson, Wendy Maybaum and Victoria Zatkin in memory of our mother Gertrude T. Bleiberg

    A multigenerational family enjoys watermelon in the evening under the moon and stars. The family spread out on a large porch, on a red swing chair, on steps, on other chairs. They all enjoy the fruit—actively eating, reaching, cutting it, and etc.

    Carmen Lomas Garza
    Sandia, 1997
    Color lithograph on paper, 22 × 30 inches
    Gift from the artist in memory of her grandfather Antonio Lomas and his ancestors, the Coahuiltecas of south Texas and northeast Mexico

    Within a small brick room, with no ceiling and dirt floors is a playful, yet daring scene. The blurry photograph of a child mid-jump is contrasted by playmates watching excitedly. Although joyful, poverty and conflict emanate from the scene.

    Gauri Gill
    New homes after the flood, Lunkaransar, from the series "Notes from the Desert," 1999-2000
    Gelatin silver print, 30 3/4 × 24 3/4 inches
    Gift of Wanda Kownacki, the Lipman Family Foundation and Dipti and Rakesh Mathur

    A photograph of a row of houses descend down a grade, behind a guardrail. Power lines parallel the houses with a faint glow of the sun behind the houses.

    Todd Hido
    #2523, from the series "Outskirts, 1999," 1999
    Chromatic print on paper, 48 × 38 inches
    Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Collections Committee

    A wood framed house-like structure in front of wooden fences. The structure's walls are made with stacked blue glass bottles. The fences are made of wooden horizontal panels and on either ends of the walls are panels made from blue glass bottles.

    Mildred Howard
    Adobe: Sanctuary for the Familia(r), 1994
    Bottles, wood, sand, walking stones, and lights
    Gift of Kate and Drew Gibson

    A portrait of the back of a brown man’s head against a pink background. He is not bald but has a very short haircut tapered to a point at his neck. Without seeing the man’s face, he looks like he could be in his twenties.

    Salomón  Huerta
    Untitled (Head), 2007
    Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 11 3/4 × 11 inches
    Gift of Yvonne and Mike Nevens

    A sepia toned photograph of multiple rows of densely packed identical houses. They are lined up a hill with several cars from the late 1950s or 60s.

    Robert Isaacs
    Ticky Tacky Houses in Daly City, 1968
    Gelatin silver print on board, 32 × 40 inches
    Gift of Robert Isaacs

    A black and white photograph of a doorway opens out to a hallway with a stairway that leads up and down. In front of the threshold is a ceramic potted flower. A brimmed straw hat hangs on the wall. Although there are several visible items, it feels empty.

    Andre Kertesz
    Chez Mondrian, 1926
    Gelatin silver print, 9 5/8 × 7 1/4 inches
    Gift of Arthur J. Goodwin

    Two rectangular shapes resembling bookshelves jut out of a white wall. There is light cast down from above the rectangles creating a shadow underneath.

    Won Ju Lim
    Kiss D7, 2015
    Plexiglass and light, 7 1/4 × 59 × 17 inches
    Museum purchase with funds provided by the Council of 100

    A vertical piece of red material, with rows of black making patterns from top to bottom of arcs and diamond shapes. In the center of the diamond shapes is a circle.

    An Te Liu
    Levittown (Red), from the series, Pattern Language I, 1999-2005
    Print on vinyl, 96 × 22 1/2 inches
    Gift of L.J. Cella

    A vertical piece of crème/white colored material, with rows of black making patterns from top to bottom of half circle and diamond shapes, similar to a snake's pattern.

    An Te Liu
    Levittown (White), from the series, Pattern Language I, 1999-2005
    Print on vinyl, 96 × 22 1/2 inches
    Gift of L.J. Cella

    A vertical piece of purple colored material, with wavy rows of purple thread that make patterns from top to bottom of small waves. At certain parts the waves merge and create elongated oval shape patterns, similar to a snake's pattern.

    An Te Liu
    Levittown (Mauve), from the series, Pattern Language I, 1999-2005
    Print on vinyl, 96 × 22 1/2 inches
    Gift of L.J. Cella

    An Te Liu
    Levittown (Gold), from the series, Pattern Language I, 1999-2005
    Print on vinyl, 96 × 22 1/2 inches
    Gift of L.J. Cella

    Don Martin
    The house of,  from the "Codex series," 1987
    Ink on paper, 18 × 18 inches
    Gift of Gilbert Martin with additional support contributed by the Museum's Collection Committee

    Lorie Novak
    Doorway Shadows, n.d.
    Color photograph
    Gift of Arthur J. Goodwin

    Bill Owens
    I get a lot of compliments on the front room wall. I like Italian Syrocco floral designs over the mantle. It goes with the Palos Verde rock fireplace, from the series "Suburbia," ca.1972
    Vintage gelatin silver print, 8 × 10 inches
    Gift of Robert Harshorn Shimshak and Marion Brenner

    Bill Owens
    Sunday Breakfast Table, from the series "Our Kind of People," c. 1972-74
    Vintage gelatin silver print, 8 × 10 inches
    Gift of Robert Harshorn Shimshak and Marion Brenner

    A pencil drawing of a house nestled against a hillside. The house is L-shaped with a single car garage and an outward opening arched front door. There is no shading, only simple clean lines.

    Bill Owens
    ​Cocktail Party, from the series "Our Kind of People," ca. 1972-1974
    Vintage gelatin silver print, 8 × 10 inches
    Gift of Robert Harshorn Shimshak and Marion Brenner

    Bill Owens
    ​I love to cook. Meal time is the only time the family has together, ca. 1972
    Vintage gelatin silver print, 8 × 10 inches
    Gift of Robert Harshorn Shimshak and Marion Brenner

    Bill Owens
    ​Meeting in a living room, from the series "Our Kind of People," ca. 1972-1974
    Vintage gelatin silver print, 8 × 10 inches
    Gift of Robert Harshorn Shimshak and Marion Brenner

    Bill Owens
    ​Group outside ranch house, from the series "Our Kind of People," ca. 1972-1974
    Vintage gelatin silver print, 8 × 10 inches
    Gift of Robert Harshorn Shimshak and Marion Brenner

    Milton Rogovin
    ​Untitled, from the series, "Working People: Chevy,"1977-1978
    Gelatin silver print on paper, 10 × 8 inches
    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Braunstein

    Milton Rogovin
    ​Untitled, from the series, "Working People: Ford,"1977-1978
    Gelatin silver print on paper, 10 × 8 inches
    Gift of Dr. Philip Greider

    Milton Rogovin
    ​Untitled, from the series, "Working People: Amherst Foundry,"1979
    Gelatin silver print on paper, 10 × 8 inches
    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jon Vein

    Clare Rojas
    Red Dress Lady in Living Room, 2009
    Gouache and latex on panel, 14 × 11 1/4 inches
    Museum purchase with funds contributed by Barbara and William Hyland

    Roger Shimomura
    Memories of Childhood, 1999
    Lithographs in handmade book, 7 × 10 inches
    Gift of the artist

    Larry Sultan
    Mom Posing by Green Wall and Dad Watching T.V., 1984
    Color coupler print on paper, 41 × 47 1/2 inches
    Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Council of 100

    Tabiamo
    dolefullhouse, 2007
    Single channel video installation with panoramic screen, 276 × 84 inches
    Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Acquisitions Committee with additional funds provided by the Lipman Family Foundation

    Wolf von dem Bussche
    Washington Square East VI, 1978
    Gelatin silver print, 15 × 10 inches
    Gift of David Devine