id: 114863 accession number: 1934.56 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.56 updated: 2023-08-26 11:09:32.635000 Storm Frightened Animals, 1933. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Oil on canvas; unframed: 76.3 x 101.6 cm (30 1/16 x 40 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1934.56 title: Storm Frightened Animals title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1933 creation date earliest: 1933 creation date latest: 1933 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Cleveland School type: Painting 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: Unframed: 76.3 x 101.6 cm (30 1/16 x 40 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: Keller under his monogram. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The May Show: 16th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen opening date: 1934-04-25T05:00:00 The May Show: 16th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 25-June 3, 1934). title: Animals in Art opening date: 1947-02-03T05:00:00 Animals in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 3-March 3, 1947). title: Exhibition of Ohio Painters opening date: 1967-04-04T05:00:00 Exhibition of Ohio Painters. The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (organizer) (April 4-30, 1967). title: Paintings by Ohio Artists opening date: 1967-11-28T05:00:00 Paintings by Ohio Artists. Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (organizer) (November 28, 1967-January 14, 1968). title: May Show Retrospective - 50 Years opening date: 1968-04-23T05:00:00 May Show Retrospective - 50 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 23-June 16, 1968). title: Circus and Carnival opening date: 1970-02-17T05:00:00 Circus and Carnival. Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-May 15, 1970). title: Burchfield / Keller opening date: 1973-06-24T04:00:00 Burchfield / Keller. Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (June 24-August 13, 1973). title: Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820 - 1940 opening date: 1977-02-18T05:00:00 Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820 - 1940. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (organizer) (February 18-April 10, 1977). title: The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years opening date: 1982-12-22T05:00:00 The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE May Show, 1934 date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 117744 Study for "Storm Frightened Animals", 1933. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Pencil and crayon; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Artist 1938.367 relationship: --- CITATIONS Henry Keller Entry Card to 1934 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS03276 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Henry G Keller, and William Mathewson Milliken. The Henry G. Keller Memorial Exhibition: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by Henry G. Keller. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1950. page number: Mentioned: p. 27; Reproduced: Plate XIV url: https://archive.org/details/HenryGKeller/page/n81 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 557 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n104 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 193 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n217 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 193 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n217 Hoffman, Jay, Dee Driscole, and Mary Clare Zahler. A Study in Regional Taste: The May Show, 1919-1975. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977. page number: Mentioned: P. 77, no. 16 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 239 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n259 Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. page number: Reproduced: p. 19 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952/page/n19/mode/2up --- IMAGES