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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1927.180", "current_location": null, "title": "The Creation", "creation_date": "before 1927", "creation_date_earliest": 1917, "creation_date_latest": 1927, "artists_tags": [ "May Show", "Cleveland Institute of Art (alumni)", "male" ], "culture": [ "America, Ohio, Cleveland" ], "technique": "woodcut", "support_materials": [ { "description": "wove paper", "watermarks": [] } ], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Apparatus", "type": "Print", "measurements": "Image: 28.5 x 19.1 cm (11 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": { "image": { "height": 0.285, "height_inch": 11, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 0.191, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Signed, in graphite, at bottom right: C. A. Kubinyi", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 381573, "title": "The May Show: 9th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen", "description": "The May Show: 9th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 5, 1927).", "opening_date": "1927-04-27T04:00:00" }, { "id": 356476, "title": "Prints by Cleveland Artists", "description": "Prints by Cleveland Artists. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 10-October 9, 1935).", "opening_date": "1935-07-10T04:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Studio of the artist, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1927", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1927", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1927-", "sortorder": 3 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This woodcut won the third prize in its category at the Cleveland Museum of Art\u2019s 1927 May Show.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "In this woodcut, Kubinyi\u2019s title and the image itself seem intended to evoke religious themes. Rays of light cascade from a dark sky onto a peaceful nude man, transforming the clouds beyond into a representation of the heavens. The man\u2019s confident posture and calm expression suggest a sense of ease, much like the innocence of Adam and Eve from the Christian Bible, whose story the print\u2019s title directly references. The coastal landscape and bountiful plants around the figure similarly evoke a primordial world.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80001097" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1927.180-the-creation" ] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "\u201cFront Matter.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 14, no. 5 (1927): 91.", "page_number": "", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137026" }, { "citation": "K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kubinyi Entry Card to 1927 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01354/" } ], "catalogue_raisonne": "Dancyger, 4", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.180", "images": { "annotation": null, "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.180/1927.180_web.jpg", "width": "604", "height": "893", "filesize": "579132", "filename": "1927.180_web.jpg" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.180/1927.180_print.jpg", "width": "1864", "height": "2757", "filesize": "5128271", "filename": "1927.180_print.jpg" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.180/1927.180_full.tif", "width": "1864", "height": "2757", "filesize": "15442376", "filename": "1927.180_full.tif" } }, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 109009, "creators": [ { "id": 20121, "description": "K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kubinyi (American, 1906\u20131973)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Born in Cleveland, Kalman Kubinyi was raised in the city's large Hungarian community. While a child, he attended art classes taught by William Zorach at the Jewish Council for Education Alliance. Primarily financed by scholarships, Kubinyi attended the Cleveland School of Art, graduating in 1926. In 1927 he studied in Munich with his uncle Sandor Kubinyi von Demenfalva, who introduced him to intaglio processes. During the 1920s-40s, Kubinyi was active in the graphic arts as an artist, a teacher, and an administrator. He frequently participated in competitive print exhibitions in Cleveland, Dayton, Chicago, and New York City, including the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1926-45), the Venice Biennale, and the New York World's Fair (1939). He taught print-making at the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art, 1936-40, as well as at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In 1930 he founded the Cleveland Print Makers and was listed as its president until 1941. He also organized the Cleveland Print Market in 1932 and was its director until 1934, when his brother took over the business end. In 1933 Kubinyi married his former classmate, the artist Doris Hall. He was the supervisor for the Cleveland graphic arts project of the Works Progress Administration, 1935-39, and district supervisor of the entire Cleveland WPA project, 1939. He was active in the Cleveland Artist's Union and a member of the American Artists' Congress, participating in their exhibition America Today (1936). He contributed to the Cleveland cultural periodicals IV Arts and Crossroads. After two sessions as a visiting instructor at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1948-50, Kubinyi moved to Gloucester, Massachusetts, and opened a gallery. He and his wife worked at the Bettinger Company in Waltham, Massachusetts, making enameled murals, but were forced to quit because the process made Doris Hall severely ill. The couple moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1963. In 1967 Kubinyi began working for Stockbridge School as director of the art department. Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), pp.232-33.
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