id: 110910 accession number: 1929.427 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.427 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:13.952000 History of a Picture No. 2: The Public, c, 1929. Frank Wilcox (American, 1887–1964). Pencil and wash heightened with white; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1929.427 © Wilcox Family Collection LLC title: History of a Picture No. 2: The Public title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c, 1929 creation date earliest: 1924 creation date latest: 1929 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: © Wilcox Family Collection LLC --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: pencil and wash heightened with white department: Drawings collection: DR - American - Cleveland School type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Frank Wilcox (American, 1887–1964) - artist Cleveland-born Frank Wilcox received artistic training with Frederick Gottwald, Henry Keller, and Louis Rorimer while at tending the Cleveland School of Art, 1906–10. On a travel scholarship from the school, Wilcox studied at the Académie Callorossi in Paris during the winter of 1910–11 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 (1919–60). Wilcox made painting trips to Maine and the eastern seaboard during summers, 1920–25, and studied and painted in Paris, 1926–27. 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. --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The May Show: 11th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen opening date: 1929-04-23T05:00:00 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). title: Humor in Prints opening date: 1934-09-13T04:00:00 Humor in Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 13-October 28, 1934). title: Graphic Humor opening date: 1982-06-01T04:00:00 Graphic Humor. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 1-August 29, 1982). 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 Frank Wilcox Entry Card to 1929 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01815/ --- IMAGES