{ "data": { "id": 110905, "accession_number": "1929.422", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "History of a Picture No. 1: Before the Jury, c. 1929. Frank Wilcox (American, 1887\u20131964). Pencil and wash heightened with white; paper: 35.3 x 41.8 cm (13 7/8 x 16 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Howard M. Hanna, 1929.422", "current_location": null, "title": "History of a Picture No. 1: Before the Jury", "creation_date": "c. 1929", "creation_date_earliest": 1924, "creation_date_latest": 1929, "artists_tags": [ "Cleveland Institute of Art (alumni)", "male", "Cleveland Institute of Art (faculty)", "May Show" ], "culture": [ "America, Ohio, Cleveland" ], "technique": "pencil and wash heightened with white", "support_materials": [ { "description": "Whatman Illustration Board", "watermarks": [] } ], "department": "Drawings", "collection": "DR - American - Cleveland School", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Paper: 35.3 x 41.8 cm (13 7/8 x 16 7/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "paper": { "height": 0.353, "height_inch": 13, "height_inch_fraction": 0.875, "width": 0.418, "width_inch": 16, "width_inch_fraction": 0.4375 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Signed, in black ink, in bottom right: WILCOX", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 381597, "title": "The May Show: 11th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen", "description": "The May Show: 11th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 23-June 2, 1929).", "opening_date": "1929-04-23T05:00:00" }, { "id": 309578, "title": "Graphic Humor", "description": "Graphic Humor. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 1-August 29, 1982).", "opening_date": "1982-06-01T04:00:00" }, { "id": 310252, "title": "Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940", "description": "Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 28-September 10, 1989).", "opening_date": "1989-06-28T04:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Mrs. Howard M. Hanna, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1929", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1929-", "sortorder": 2 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The style of this drawing, reminiscent of caricature, resembles Wilcox\u2019s illustrations from his trip to Europe from 1913 to 1914.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Frank Wilcox submitted this satire of art exhibitions to the Cleveland Museum of Art\u2019s annual May Show, suggesting his sense of humor. In the first part, a group of judges assesses a picture. Although one holds a notepad and another crouches before the picture, the rows of frames leaning against the wall in the background suggest the men work quickly. The man in the middle stares directly outward, shifting the judgment from the framed picture onto the viewer.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80003044" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Frank Wilcox Entry Card to 1929 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01815" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.422", "images": { "annotation": null, "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.422/1929.422_web.jpg", "width": "1062", "height": "893", "filesize": "175448", "filename": "1929.422_web.jpg" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.422/1929.422_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2860", "filesize": "1730910", "filename": "1929.422_print.jpg" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1929.422/1929.422_full.tif", "width": "4030", "height": "3391", "filesize": "41020452", "filename": "1929.422_full.tif" } }, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Howard M. Hanna", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 110905, "creators": [ { "id": 6783, "description": "Frank Wilcox (American, 1887\u20131964)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Cleveland-born Frank Wilcox received artistic training with Frederick Gottwald, Henry Keller, and Louis Rorimer while at tending the Cleveland School of Art, 1906\u201310. On a travel scholarship from the school, Wilcox studied at the Acad\u00e9mie Callorossi in Paris during the winter of 1910\u201311 and exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1911. He then returned to Cleveland, where the Taylor Gallery organized his first solo exhibition in the fall of 1911. The Korner & Wood Galleries organized his second solo exhibition in 1913, the same year he began teaching at the Cleveland School of Art. Among his students were Charles Burchfield, Carl Gaertner, and Clarence Carter. The Cleveland School of Art mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings (1916), and he exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1919\u201360). Wilcox made painting trips to Maine and the eastern seaboard during summers, 1920\u201325, and studied and painted in Paris, 1926\u201327. He established a reputation as a book illustrator with the publication of Ohio Indian Trails in 1933. In the 1930s his paintings appeared in group exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and in New York at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Cleveland School of Art mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings in 1937. In the 1940s he made several painting trips to the American Southwest and illustrated a historical survey of the Ohio canal system. After retiring from the Cleveland School of Art in 1957, Wilcox continued to paint. \"Transformations in Cleveland Art\" (CMA, 1996), p. 240.
Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1887", "death_year": "1964", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1929-05-16T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1924, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1929", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-08-04 18:33:21.889000" } }