id: 114177 accession number: 1933.427 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.427 updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:24.047000 Circus, 1932. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Lithograph; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1933.427 title: Circus 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: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949) - artist A leader of the Cleveland modernist movement, Henry Keller grew up in the city and enrolled in the Western Reserve School of Design for Women in 1887. In 1890 he went to Karlsruhe, Germany, for a year of study with Hermann Baisch. Unable to find a teaching position after returning to Cleveland, Keller worked for eight years at the Morgan Lithograph Company, where he specialized in designing circus posters. In 1899 he returned to Germany to study at art academies in Düsseldorf and Munich. In 1902, after receiving a silver medal at the Munich Kunstakademie’ s spring exhibition, he returned to Cleveland. Around 1903 he began teaching at the Cleveland School of Art, first as a part-time watercolor instructor, then as full-time instructor of decorative illustration. He also taught private classes on family-owned farmland in Berlin Heights, Ohio, during summers from 1903 to 1914. In the 1910s he championed the cause of modern art through lectures and teaching. He exhibited in the Armory Show (1913) and the annuals of the Carnegie Institute of Art in Pittsburgh. The Cleveland School of Art sponsored several solo exhibitions of his paintings. He exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1919–50) and in annuals at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. When he retired from the Cleveland School of Art in 1945, Keller moved to San Diego, where he died.
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 232 --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Recent Accessions of Prints, 1933-34 opening date: 1935-02-20T05:00:00 Recent Accessions of Prints, 1933-34. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-March 13, 1935). 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). title: Beasts, an Alphabet of Fine Prints opening date: 1968-10-26T04:00:00 Beasts, an Alphabet of Fine Prints. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (October 26-December 1, 1968). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Henry G Keller, William Mathewson Milliken, and Cleveland Museum of Art. The Henry G. Keller Memorial Exhibition: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by Henry G. Keller. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1950. Published as: Circus, No. 2. page number: Mentioned: p. 53 url: https://archive.org/details/HenryGKeller/page/n61 --- IMAGES