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accession number: 1928.214
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Gulls Feeding, 1927–1928. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Watercolor; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1928.214
title: Gulls Feeding
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creation date: 1927–1928
creation date earliest: 1927
creation date latest: 1928
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creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
technique: watercolor
department: Drawings
collection: DR - American - Cleveland School
type: Drawing
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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
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The May Show: 10th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
opening date: 1928-04-25T05:00:00
The May Show: 10th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 25-June 3, 1928).
title: Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today
opening date: 1937-06-23T04:00:00
Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).
title: Animals in Art
opening date: 1947-02-03T05:00:00
Animals in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 3-March 3, 1947).
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).
title: Henry G. Keller's Watercolors and Drawings
opening date: 1962-01-03T05:00:00
Henry G. Keller's Watercolors and Drawings. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (organizer) (January 5-February 2, 1962).
title: Water Color
opening date: 1962-06-06T04:00:00
Water Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 6-August 27, 1962).
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: Watercolors - [William] Sommer and [Henry] Keller
opening date: 1968-02-07T05:00:00
Watercolors - [William] Sommer and [Henry] Keller. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-March 27, 1968).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, June 23 - October 4, 1937: "Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 until Today," cat. no. 106, p. 29', 'opening_date': '1937-06-23T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Henry Keller Entry Card to 1928 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01534/
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. 37; Reproduced: Plate XXIX
url: https://archive.org/details/HenryGKeller/page/n97
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