id: 113824 accession number: 1933.117 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.117 updated: 2023-08-30 11:08:03.493000 Furnace Floor, 1933. Stevan Dohanos (American, 1907–1994). Wood engraving; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1933.117 © Stevan Dohanos / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Furnace Floor title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1933 creation date earliest: 1933 creation date latest: 1933 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: © Stevan Dohanos / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: wood engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Wood engraving type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Stevan Dohanos (American, 1907–1994) - artist Born in Lorain to immigrant parents, Stevan Dohanos decided to pursue a career in art after selling sketches to his co-workers at the National Tube Co. He attended night school at the Cleveland School of Art and subsequently received a scholarship to attend full-time, 1929–32. In 1932, the year he began printmaking, he attended the George Pearce Ennis School in Eastport, Maine, where he and Walter Richards studied lithography with Stow Wengenroth. Continuing his art studies at night at the Huntington Polytechnic Institute, Dohanos worked at several commercial art agencies in Cleveland, including the Greene Art Studios and Tranquillini Art Studios. He left Cleveland in 1934 to pursue commercial art work in New York City. In 1936 he was commissioned by the Treasury Department to paint watercolors for the Federal Building in the Virgin Islands. He also made murals for the Forest Service Building in Elkins, West Virginia, and a post office in West Palm Beach, Florida. He exhibited prints and watercolors in annual exhibitions in Philadelphia, Chicago, New York City, and Cleveland, including May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1929–35). He was a member of the Cleveland Society of Artists and a director of the Cleveland Print Makers. In 1942, following his move to Westport, Connecticut, he pursued a career as a free-lance graphic artist, and his work appeared in Fortune, Good Housekeeping, Life, McCall’s, New Yorker, and Saturday Evening Post. He also designed and supervised the production of postage stamps during his tenure on the Postmaster General’s Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee. In 1973 he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame. Dohanos died in Westport.
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 227 --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The May Show: 15th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen opening date: 1933-05-02T04:00:00 The May Show: 15th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 2-June 11, 1933). title: Prints of Industrial Subjects opening date: 1934-12-12T05:00:00 Prints of Industrial Subjects. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 1934-January 15, 1935). title: A Golden Age of American Printmaking opening date: 1982-01-12T05:00:00 A Golden Age of American Printmaking. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 12-April 11, 1982). title: The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art opening date: 1989-01-24T05:00:00 The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 24-April 9, 1989). title: Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946 opening date: 1996-05-19T04:00:00 Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-July 21, 1996). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, May 19 - July 21, 1996 "Transformations in Cleveland Art 1796-1946", p. 192, fig. 199, p. 246. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Stevan Dohanos Entry Card to 1933 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS02797 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 and Mentioned: p. 192 url: --- IMAGES