id: 101498 accession number: 1920.279 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.279 updated: 2025-02-08 22:57:37.446000 The Old Market, Cleveland, 1920. Frank Wilcox (American, 1887–1964). Gouache; overall: 73 x 57.8 cm (28 3/4 x 22 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with funds given by friends of the May Show 1920.279 title: The Old Market, Cleveland title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1920 creation date earliest: 1920 creation date latest: 1920 current location: creditline: Purchased with funds given by friends of the May Show copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: gouache department: Drawings collection: DR - American - Cleveland School type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Frank Wilcox (American, 1887–1964) - artist Cleveland-born Frank Wilcox received artistic training with Frederick Gottwald, Henry Keller, and Louis Rorimer while at tending the Cleveland School of Art, 1906–10. On a travel scholarship from the school, Wilcox studied at the Académie Callorossi in Paris during the winter of 1910–11 and exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1911. He then returned to Cleveland, where the Taylor Gallery organized his first solo exhibition in the fall of 1911. The Korner & Wood Galleries organized his second solo exhibition in 1913, the same year he began teaching at the Cleveland School of Art. Among his students were Charles Burchfield, Carl Gaertner, and Clarence Carter. The Cleveland School of Art mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings (1916), and he exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1919–60). Wilcox made painting trips to Maine and the eastern seaboard during summers, 1920–25, and studied and painted in Paris, 1926–27. He established a reputation as a book illustrator with the publication of Ohio Indian Trails in 1933. In the 1930s his paintings appeared in group exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and in New York at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Cleveland School of Art mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings in 1937. In the 1940s he made several painting trips to the American Southwest and illustrated a historical survey of the Ohio canal system. After retiring from the Cleveland School of Art in 1957, Wilcox continued to paint. "Transformations in Cleveland Art" (CMA, 1996), p. 240.
Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. --- measurements: Overall: 73 x 57.8 cm (28 3/4 x 22 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The May Show: 2nd Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen opening date: 1920-05-04T04:00:00 The May Show: 2nd Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 4-June 27, 1920). title: Retrospective Twenty-fifth Anniversary May Show opening date: 1943-01-13T05:00:00 Retrospective Twenty-fifth Anniversary May Show. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 13-February 14, 1943). title: May Show Retrospective - 50 Years opening date: 1968-04-23T05:00:00 May Show Retrospective - 50 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 23-June 16, 1968). title: A Study in Regional Taste: May Show 1919 - 1975 opening date: 1977-07-13T04:00:00 A Study in Regional Taste: May Show 1919 - 1975. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-August 21, 1977). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Frank Wilcox Entry Card to 1920 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS00321/page/n7 Hoffman, Jay, Dee Driscole, and Mary Clare Zahler. A Study in Regional Taste: The May Show, 1919-1975. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977. page number: Reproduced: P. 435, no. 2; Mentioned: P. 77, no. 2 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. 109, fig.108; Mentioned: p. 251 url: Kraynak, Scott, Henry Adams, Douglas Max Utter, William G. Scheele, R. A. Washington, and Mike Hudson. The Heart of Cleveland. Shaker Hts, OH: Red Giant Books, 2018. page number: Reproduced: P. 27, fig. 23 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.279/1920.279_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.279/1920.279_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.279/1920.279_full.tif