id: 97134 accession number: 1916.773 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.773 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:19.863000 In the Sand-pit, 1901. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Oil on canvas; unframed: 61 x 53.3 cm (24 x 21 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Cleveland Art Association 1916.773 title: In the Sand-pit title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1901 creation date earliest: 1901 creation date latest: 1901 current location: creditline: Gift of The Cleveland Art Association 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 * Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949) - artist A leader of the Cleveland modernist movement, Henry Keller grew up in the city and enrolled in the Western Reserve School of Design for Women in 1887. In 1890 he went to Karlsruhe, Germany, for a year of study with Hermann Baisch. Unable to find a teaching position after returning to Cleveland, Keller worked for eight years at the Morgan Lithograph Company, where he specialized in designing circus posters. In 1899 he returned to Germany to study at art academies in Düsseldorf and Munich. In 1902, after receiving a silver medal at the Munich Kunstakademie’ s spring exhibition, he returned to Cleveland. Around 1903 he began teaching at the Cleveland School of Art, first as a part-time watercolor instructor, then as full-time instructor of decorative illustration. He also taught private classes on family-owned farmland in Berlin Heights, Ohio, during summers from 1903 to 1914. In the 1910s he championed the cause of modern art through lectures and teaching. He exhibited in the Armory Show (1913) and the annuals of the Carnegie Institute of Art in Pittsburgh. The Cleveland School of Art sponsored several solo exhibitions of his paintings. He exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1919–50) and in annuals at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. When he retired from the Cleveland School of Art in 1945, Keller moved to San Diego, where he died.
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 232 --- measurements: Unframed: 61 x 53.3 cm (24 x 21 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: H. G. Keller 1901. 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: Henry G. Keller Memorial Exhibition opening date: 1950-02-01T05:00:00 Henry G. Keller Memorial Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 1-March 19, 1950). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 26-37. page number: Mentioned: p. 26 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136070 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Henry G Keller, and William Mathewson Milliken. The Henry G. Keller Memorial Exhibition: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by Henry G. Keller. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1950. page number: Mentioned: p. 21 url: https://archive.org/details/HenryGKeller/page/n29 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.773/1916.773_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.773/1916.773_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.773/1916.773_full.tif