id: 114473
accession number: 1934.105
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.105
updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:24.957000
Study for "Boyhood Memories" , Before 1934. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Black chalk with touches of brown and blue chalk with white heightening ; sheet: 32.6 x 43.4 cm (12 13/16 x 17 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist 1934.105
title: Study for "Boyhood Memories"
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creation date: Before 1934
creation date earliest: 1930
creation date latest: 1934
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creditline: Gift of the Artist
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culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
technique: Black chalk with touches of brown and blue chalk with white heightening
department: Drawings
collection: DR - American - Cleveland School
type: Drawing
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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
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measurements: Sheet: 32.6 x 43.4 cm (12 13/16 x 17 1/16 in.)
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inscription: Lower right, in graphite: artist's monogram / Keller
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PROVENANCE
gift of the artist
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RELATED WORKS
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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: Study for "Boyhood Memories." (Nos. 51, 55, 247.)
page number: Mentioned: p. 49
url: https://archive.org/details/HenryGKeller/page/n57
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