id: 108010 accession number: 1925.632 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1925.632 updated: 2022-04-05 09:00:45.640000 The Madonna of Ivory, 20th century. Henry Keller (American, 1869-1949). Oil on canvas; unframed: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Benjamin P. Bole 1925.632 title: The Madonna of Ivory title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 20th century creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1949 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. Benjamin P. Bole 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: 76.2 x 63.5 cm (30 x 25 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed upper left: H. G. Keller. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The May Show: 7th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen opening date: 1925-05-04T04:00:00 The May Show: 7th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 4-June 7, 1925). title: Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940 opening date: 1989-06-28T04:00:00 Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 28-September 10, 1989). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Henry Keller Entry Card to 1925 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS00951/ 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. 26 url: https://archive.org/details/HenryGKeller/page/n35 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. 49, no. 10; Mentioned: P. 77, no. 10 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.632/1925.632_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.632/1925.632_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1925.632/1925.632_full.tif