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"tombstone": "Under the High Level Bridge, 1932. Jol\u00e1n Gross-Bettelheim (American, 1900\u20131972). Drypoint; sheet: 36.7 x 26.6 cm (14 7/16 x 10 1/2 in.); plate: 24 x 17.7 cm (9 7/16 x 6 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1932.138",
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"title": "The May Show: 14th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen",
"description": "The May Show: 14th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 5, 1932).",
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"title": "Prints of Industrial Subjects",
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"title": "Prints by Cleveland Artists",
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"title": "The May Shows of the Past",
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"title": "Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940",
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"title": "Central European Prints Between the Wars",
"description": "Central European Prints Between the Wars. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-August 28, 1994).",
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"title": "Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946",
"description": "Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-July 21, 1996).",
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"title": "Jolan Gross-Bettelheim",
"description": "Jolan Gross-Bettelheim. Faulconer Gallery, Print & Drawing Study Room - Burling Library, Grinnel, IA (April 25-May 21, 2001).",
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"did_you_know": "The area depicted in this piece is known as the Flats, Cleveland\u2019s industrial area that sits at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River.",
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"description": "In this work, Gross-Bettelheim abstracted Cleveland\u2019s High Level Bridge. Steel beams run diagonal to telephone wires, street railings, and the roofs of houses, filling the scene with energy. The bridge was a popular icon in the city during the first half of the 20th century due to its massive structure and sleek design. The lack of human figures suggests Gross-Bettelheim's interest lay in the construction of the bridge rather than its role as a main route for city travelers during the workday.",
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"citation": "Jol\u00e1n Gross-Bettelheim Entry Card to 1932 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS02382"
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"citation": "Robinson, William H., et. al. Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 176; Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 187",
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"citation": "Stamey, Emily. Jola\u0301n Gross-Bettelheim: The American Prints. Grinnell, IA: Faulconer Gallery, 2001.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 29, fig. 1",
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"biography": "Jol\u00e1n Gross-Bettelheim, a Hungarian artist, lived in the United States between 1925 and 1956. Although details about her life remain sketchy, she is best known for her social and political prints of industrial urban life. Born in 1900 in Nitra, then in the Austro-Hungarian empire but now in the Slovak Republic, she began her art studies in 1919 at the Budapest School of Fine Art, where she studied painting with R\u00f3bert Ber\u00e9ny. In 1920 she studied with Emil Orlik at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna and within a year went to Berlin and enrolled at the Akademie der Bildenden K\u00fcnst. Between 1922 and 1924 she lived in Paris and studied at the Acad\u00e9mie de Grande Chaumi\u00e8re. By 1925 she was living in Cleveland, married to Frigyes Bettelheim, a Hungarian-born radiologist. She exhibited in annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1927\u201337) and had her first solo exhibition at the Kokoon Klub (1932). In 1936, while on the Works Progress Administration graphic arts project in Cleveland, she made her first lithographs. In 1938 she moved to Jackson Heights, New York, with her husband, who opened a practice in Manhattan. A committed communist, Gross-Bettelheim was a contributor to the New Masses and the Daily Worker as well as a member of the John Reed Club and the American Artists\u2019 Congress. During the 1930s and 1940s her works were exhibited extensively in Ohio, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. She was included in the exhibitions America Today, shown simultaneously in 30 cities (1936), Artists for Victory at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1942), and America in the War, shown simultaneously in 26 locations (1943). Following the death of her husband, she returned to Hungary after 1956. Gross-Bettelheim died in Budapest.
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 230",
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