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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2001.24.02.07.jpg?itok=o0o59LRH)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2001.24.02.03.jpg?itok=wTvGPUCh)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2001.24.02.04.jpg?itok=cbOdFNSQ)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2001.24.02.05.jpg?itok=5rhus20d)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2001.24.02.06.jpg?itok=7HAoL-pK)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2001.10.jpg?itok=APmLm2M0)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2013.01.02.jpg?itok=wJ3Ijlqc)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2006.11_0.jpg?itok=0s7G2Gmk)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2008.30.01_0.jpg?itok=G_4n2CEa)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2010.07.jpg?itok=TnBG-PIZ)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2003.08.jpg?itok=x4BsKYIw)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/1997.24.076.jpg?itok=Vh3WN41S)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2016.03a-b_0.jpg?itok=g2VOCgFy)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2006.16.02.jpg?itok=ro1AQf2b)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2006.16.03.jpg?itok=LVu9mgFT)
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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2006.16.04.jpg?itok=mK2bbH7Q)
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
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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
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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
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Lorie Novak
Doorway Shadows, n.d.
Color photograph
Gift of Arthur J. Goodwin
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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
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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.](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2011.17.24.jpg?itok=iiTVkv-A)
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
![](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2010.20.35.jpg?itok=eDnZ9mZd)
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
![](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2011.17.21.jpg?itok=2c6gampm)
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
![](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2011.17.25.jpg?itok=O4kWzv-Q)
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
![](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2011.16.28_0.jpg?itok=lU8yHM4b)
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
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Milton Rogovin
Untitled, from the series, "Working People: Ford,"1977-1978
Gelatin silver print on paper, 10 × 8 inches
Gift of Dr. Philip Greider
![](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2011.16.21_0.jpg?itok=3xhEplMR)
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
![](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2013.09.01_0.jpg?itok=4wfI7Wub)
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
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Roger Shimomura
Memories of Childhood, 1999
Lithographs in handmade book, 7 × 10 inches
Gift of the artist
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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
![](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/2017.07_0.jpg?itok=mQ1h77-h)
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
![](/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/1984.45.10.jpg?itok=dEcpLAp_)
Wolf von dem Bussche
Washington Square East VI, 1978
Gelatin silver print, 15 × 10 inches
Gift of David Devine