Edward Owens

Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts

On view
Floor 5

Date
1966

Classification
Film

Medium
16mm film, color, silent, 5:51 min., transferred to video

Accession number
2021.85

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Film and Video Committee

Rights and reproductions
© The New American Cinema Group, Inc./The Film-Makers' Cooperative

API
artworks/63783

Edward Owens, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts (still), 1966. 16mm film, color, silent, 5:51 min., transferred to video. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Film and Video Committee 2021.85. ©️ The New American Cinema Group, Inc./The Film-Makers' Cooperative
Installation view of Sixties Surreal (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 24, 2025–January 19, 2026). Edward Owens, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, 1968–70. Artwork © The New American Cinema Group, Inc./The Film-Makers' Cooperative. Photograph by Ron Amstutz, digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art

From the exhibition Sixties Surreal
Installation view of Sixties Surreal (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 24, 2025–January 19, 2026). From left to right: Luis Jimenez, Blond TV Image, 1967; Lee Friedlander, Nashville, 1963; Lee Friedlander, Galax, Virginia, 1962; Lee Friedlander, Florida, 1963; Carlos Villa, My Roots, 1970–71; Edward Owens, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, 1968–70. Artworks © 2025 Luis Jimenez / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Luhring Augustine, New York; © Carlos Villa Art Estate; © The New American Cinema Group, Inc./The Film-Makers' Cooperative. Photograph by Ron Amstutz, digital image © Whitney Museum of American Art

From the exhibition Sixties Surreal

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