id: 173669 accession number: 1915.695 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.695 updated: 2024-08-08 15:18:26.745000 Pitcher and a Glass on a Table, 1878. Otto H. Bacher (American, 1856–1909). Oil on wood; unframed: 57 x 35.6 cm (22 7/16 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1915.695 title: Pitcher and a Glass on a Table title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1878 creation date earliest: 1878 creation date latest: 1878 current location: creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: oil on wood department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Cleveland School type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Otto H. Bacher (American, 1856–1909) - artist Painter and printmaker Otto Bacher was the first artist from Cleveland to earn international renown in the art world. Born in Cleveland, Bacher grew up in a neighborhood bordering the east bank of the Cuyahoga River near the mouth of Lake Erie. A childhood pastime of sketching shipping activities in the busy port eventually led to a job painting inscriptions on commercial vessels. He became interested in art during his teen years and studied with De Scott Evans and also learned from Willis Seaver Adams and Sion Wenban. In 1876 Bacher helped found the Art Club and had a solo show at the Kemmer and Kushman Decorating Company. The following year he had his second solo exhibition, at J. W. Sargeant’ s Art Shop. He traveled to Europe in 1878, attended the Munich Royal Academy, and studied with Cincinnati native Frank Duveneck in Munich, Florence, and Venice. A chance meeting in Venice with James A. McNeill Whistler in 1880 led to a long friendship that had a decisive effect on Bacher’ s etching style. In 1883 Bacher returned to Cleveland and began teaching at the Cleveland Academy of Art and privately at a summer retreat he organized in Richfield, Ohio. He returned to Europe in 1885, hoping to stay for an extended period, but his financial situation forced him to come back to America. After a brief visit to Cleveland, Bacher settled in New York City. To support himself, he did illustrations for Century Magazine in 1888. In 1895 he moved to Bronxville, New York, and by that time his artistic style revealed a strong debt to impressionism. During the last two decades of his life, he exhibited in New York, London, Paris, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Cleveland. Bacher died in Bronxville.
"Transformations in Cleveland Art" (CMA, 1996), p. 222. --- measurements: Unframed: 57 x 35.6 cm (22 7/16 x 14 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed upper left corner: Otto H. Bacher / 78 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Long Term Loan - Ohio Artists in the Governor's Residence opening date: 2002-04-22T04:00:00 Long Term Loan - Ohio Artists in the Governor's Residence. Ohio Governor's Residence, Bexley, Ohio (April 22, 2002-December 31, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Framingham, MA, Danforth Museum of Art, Explorations in Realism: 1870-1880-Frank Duveneck and His Circle from Bavaria to Venice (21 April-2 July 1989), cat. no. 8, illus. p. 52.', 'opening_date': '1989-04-21T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, Western Reserve Historical Society, F.C. Gottwald and the Old Bohemians (13 November1993-30 January 1994); traveled to Sandusky, Sandusky Cultural Center (6-27 February 1994), cat. no. 32, illus. p. 25.', 'opening_date': '1994-01-03T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE H. B. Hurlbut, Cleveland (1880). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Sackerlotzky, Rotraud, Mary Sayre Haverstock, Nan Grossman. F.C. Gottwald and the Old Bohemians. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Artists Foundation, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 25; Mentioned: p. 24 url: Strahan, Edward, ed. The Art Treasures of America: Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America. vol. 8. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1879. page number: Mentioned: p. 74 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). pp. 1-36. page number: Mentioned: p. 22 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 5 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.695/1915.695_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.695/1915.695_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.695/1915.695_full.tif