{ "data": { "id": 106892, "accession_number": "1924.903", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Hermitage of Talavera, 1924. Henry Keller (American, born Germany, 1869\u20131949), Paul B. Travis (American, 1891\u20131975). Etching. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist, 1924.903", "current_location": null, "title": "Hermitage of Talavera", "creation_date": "1924", "creation_date_earliest": 1924, "creation_date_latest": 1924, "artists_tags": [ "May Show", "Cleveland Institute of Art (faculty)", "male" ], "culture": [ "America, Ohio, Cleveland" ], "technique": "etching", "support_materials": [], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Etching", "type": "Print", "dimensions": {}, "state_of_the_work": "II (final)", "edition_of_the_work": "1st printing", "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 344811, "title": "Print Club Publications: Past Fifteen Years", "description": "Print Club Publications: Past Fifteen Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-March 20, 1938).", "opening_date": "1938-02-09T05:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": null, "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79893990" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1924.903", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of the Artist", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 106892, "creators": [ { "id": 4433, "description": "Henry Keller (American, born Germany, 1869\u20131949)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "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 D\u00fcsseldorf and Munich. In 1902, after receiving a silver medal at the Munich Kunstakademie\u2019 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\u201350) 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", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1869", "death_year": "1949", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 }, { "id": 4534, "description": "Paul B. Travis (American, 1891\u20131975)", "extent": "printed by", "qualifier": null, "role": "printer", "biography": "Born in Wellsville, Ohio, Paul Bough Travis grew up on his family's farm. After attending high school, he worked for a few years as a teacher in a country schoolhouse. Inspired by a catalogue to attend the Cleveland School of Art, he enrolled at the school in 1913 and graduated in 1917. During his student years he associated with Henry Keller and Charles Burchfield. In 1918 Travis served in the army, stationed in France. He remained overseas for a year after the Armistice, painting watercolors and teaching at American universities in France and Germany. In 1920 he returned to Cleveland and began exhibiting at the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art, continuing to do so for more than 50 years. He served on the faculty of the Cleveland School of Art, 1919-57. In 1927 he fulfilled a lifelong dream to paint in Africa, where he also purchased tribal art with funds provided by the Gilpin Players of Karamu House. The works were subsequently divided between the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and Karamu House. Exhibitions of his African subjects were held at the Eastman-Bolton Galleries of Cleveland (1929) and the Milwaukee Art Institute (1931). In the 1930s his paintings were featured in group shows at the Carnegie Institute of Art in Pittsburgh and the Art Institute of Chicago. The Butler Art Institute in Youngstown organized a solo exhibition of his paintings (1943). Travis continued to paint after retiring from teaching in 1957 and died in Cleveland. Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 239.
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