id: 113129 accession number: 1932.148 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.148 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:20.758000 The Portygee Playground, 1932. Ora Coltman (American, 1858–1940). Color woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1932.148 title: The Portygee Playground title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1932 creation date earliest: 1932 creation date latest: 1932 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: color woodcut department: Prints collection: PR - Chiaroscuro type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Ora Coltman (American, 1858–1940) - artist One of Cleveland’s most popular painters of the early 20th century, Ora Coltman worked in a representational style that featured broad areas of bright color. Born in Shelby, Ohio, he came to Cleveland in the early 1880s to study law but soon abandoned the field for a career in art. He subsequently secured a job as a designer at the Joseph Carabelli Monument Works, a local marble carving firm. In the mid-1880s he traveled to Europe and studied painting at the Académie Julian in Paris and at a private studio in Munich. On returning to America, he studied with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in New York. Coltman returned to Cleveland and had his first solo exhibition in 1902 at the Case Library, showing watercolors painted in France and England. He continued to exhibit watercolors throughout the next decade but in the early 1920s worked more frequently in oil. In the 1920s and 1930s he exhibited in May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the annuals of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. During this time he also exhibited at Cleveland’s Gage Gallery, Women’s City Club, and Lindner’s Little Gallery. After 1918 he began spending his summers painting in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he became an active member of the local art colony. In 1933, under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project, he painted a large triptych titled Dominance of the City for the Cleveland Public Library. During the last years of his life, Coltman continued to paint despite being bedridden from illness.
"Transformations in Cleveland Art" (CMA, 1996), p. 226 --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The May Show: 14th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen opening date: 1932-04-27T04:00:00 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). title: Prints by Cleveland Artists opening date: 1935-07-10T04:00:00 Prints by Cleveland Artists. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 10-October 9, 1935). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ora Coltman Entry Card to 1932 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS02428 --- IMAGES