id: 103837 accession number: 1921.925 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.925 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:47.796000 Disturbed, 1908. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Oil on canvas; unframed: 92.1 x 92.1 cm (36 1/4 x 36 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Korner & Wood Co. 1921.925 title: Disturbed title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1908 creation date earliest: 1908 creation date latest: 1908 current location: creditline: Gift of The Korner & Wood Co. 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: 92.1 x 92.1 cm (36 1/4 x 36 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: H. G. Keller, 08. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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 8, no. 9 (1921): 138-41. page number: Mentioned: p. 138 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136519 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. 22 url: https://archive.org/details/HenryGKeller/page/n31 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 and mentioned: p. 75 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.925/1921.925_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.925/1921.925_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.925/1921.925_full.tif