id: 114884 accession number: 1934.69 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.69 updated: 2025-02-09 00:11:13.843000 Man of the Soil, 1934. Stevan Dohanos (American, 1907–1994). Lithograph; image: 41.8 x 31.6 cm (16 7/16 x 12 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1934.69 © Stevan Dohanos / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Man of the Soil title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1934 creation date earliest: 1934 creation date latest: 1934 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: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph 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: Image: 41.8 x 31.6 cm (16 7/16 x 12 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: In graphite, lower right: "Stevan Dohanos (signed)" translation: remark: inscription: In graphite, lower left: "Man of the Soil 1934" 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: 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: Retrospective Twenty-fifth Anniversary May Show opening date: 1943-01-13T05:00:00 Retrospective Twenty-fifth Anniversary May Show. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 13-February 14, 1943). title: Human Rights opening date: 1963-11-05T05:00:00 Human Rights. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1963-January 12, 1964). title: Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940 opening date: 1989-06-28T04:00:00 Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 28-September 10, 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 --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: p. 189; Mentioned: p. 188 url: Stevan Dohanos 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/CMAMS03201 --- IMAGES