id: 101500 accession number: 1920.281 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1920.281 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:37.961000 The Omnibus. Frank Wilcox (American, 1887–1964). Etching; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with funds given by friends of the May Show 1920.281 title: The Omnibus title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: creation date earliest: creation date latest: current location: creditline: Purchased with funds given by friends of the May Show copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: etching department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print 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: 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: Modern Etchings from Museum Collections opening date: 1923-06-06T04:00:00 Modern Etchings from Museum Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 6-September 11, 1923). title: The May Shows of the Past opening date: 1963-04-05T05:00:00 The May Shows of the Past. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 5-July 24, 1963). 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). --- 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/n3/ 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. 45, no. 40; Mentioned: P. 79, no. 40 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.281/1920.281_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.281/1920.281_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1920.281/1920.281_full.tif