id: 95196 accession number: 1915.88 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.88 updated: 2023-03-03 07:01:06.595000 The Umbrian Valley, Italy, 1914. Frederick Gottwald (American, 1860–1941). Oil on canvas; unframed: 72.8 x 60.4 cm (28 11/16 x 23 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. John Huntington 1915.88 title: The Umbrian Valley, Italy title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1914 creation date earliest: 1914 creation date latest: 1914 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. John Huntington copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Cleveland School type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Frederick Gottwald (American, 1860–1941) - artist Born in Vienna, Austria, Gottwald imigrated with his family to Cleveland in 1862. He studied privately with Archibald Willard at the artists’s studio in Cleveland, 1875–80, then went to New York for a year of classes taught by William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League. Gottwald then traveled to Munich and attended the Kunstakademie, 1882–85. Returning to Cleveland, he began teaching at the Western Reserve School of Design for Women and remained on the facility until retiring in 1926. He frequently participated in local group exhibitions at the Art Club, the Brush and Palette Club, the Cleveland School of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. He also showed at the Boston Art Club and the National Academy of Design in New York. Around the turn of the century, he made several summer painting trips to Holland. Beginning in 1903, the Cleveland School of Art mounted the first of many solo exhibitions of his paintings. From 1907 to 1915 he produced a series of landscapes created during annual summer excursions to Italy. He exhibited these works, which yielded his greatest critical and popular acclaim, on a regular basis at the Cleveland School of Art. He was instrumental in founding the Cleveland Society of Artists in 1913. During the 1920s he painted in Italy, Southern France, Spain, and North Africa. His last exhibition was held in Cleveland (1931). The following year Gottwald retired to Pasadena, where he died.
"Transformations in Cleveland Art" (CMA, 1996), p. 229 --- measurements: Unframed: 72.8 x 60.4 cm (28 11/16 x 23 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: F. C. Gottwald translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years opening date: 1982-12-22T05:00:00 The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983). title: Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946 opening date: 1996-05-19T04:00:00 Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-July 21, 1996). 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 * Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, May 19 - July 21, 1996 "Transformations in Cleveland Art 1796-1946", p. 58, fig. 51, p. 247.
Columbus, Ohio, Governor's Residence. (4/22/2002m - 4/30/2003). "Long Term Loan - Ohio Artists in the Governor's Residence" --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Munich-trained Gottwald taught for more than four decades at the Cleveland School (now Institute) of Art, and was the most influential figure in the city’s burgeoning artistic development. During the years leading up to World War I, he spent summers in Italy, where he created this work, the first painting by a living artist acquired by the museum. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "The Collection of Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2:2 (July, 1915). page number: Mentioned: p. 5 url: Sackerlotzky, Rotraud, Mary Sayre Haverstock, Nan Grossman. F.C. Gottwald and the Old Bohemians. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Artists Foundation, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 38; Mentioned: p. 36 url: Witchey, Holly Rarick, with John Vacha. Fine Arts in Cleveland: An Illustrated History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. page number: Reproduced: plate 17, between pp. 32-33 url: Robinson, William H., et. al. Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: p. 58, fig. 51; Mentioned: p. 247 url: Adams, Henry, and Lawrence Waldman. Painting in Pure Color: Modern Art in Cleveland Before the Armory Show (1908-1913). Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Artists Foundation, 2013. page number: Reproduced: p. 23, fig. 10 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.88/1915.88_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.88/1915.88_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.88/1915.88_full.tif