id: 114968
accession number: 1935.140
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1935.140
updated: 2024-03-26 01:57:26.663000
Workers' Meeting, 1935. Jolán Gross-Bettelheim (American, 1900–1972). Etching; platemark: 21.4 x 17.5 cm (8 7/16 x 6 7/8 in.); sheet: 36.6 x 26.9 cm (14 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1935.140
title: Workers' Meeting
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creation date: 1935
creation date earliest: 1935
creation date latest: 1935
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creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: etching
department: Prints
collection: PR - Etching
type: Print
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CREATORS
* Jolán Gross-Bettelheim (American, 1900–1972) - artist
Jolán Gross-Bettelheim, a Hungarian artist, lived in the United States between 1925 and 1956. Although details about her life remain sketchy, she is best known for her social and political prints of industrial urban life. Born in 1900 in Nitra, then in the Austro-Hungarian empire but now in the Slovak Republic, she began her art studies in 1919 at the Budapest School of Fine Art, where she studied painting with Róbert Berény. In 1920 she studied with Emil Orlik at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna and within a year went to Berlin and enrolled at the Akademie der Bildenden Künst. Between 1922 and 1924 she lived in Paris and studied at the Académie de Grande Chaumière. By 1925 she was living in Cleveland, married to Frigyes Bettelheim, a Hungarian-born radiologist. She exhibited in annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1927–37) and had her first solo exhibition at the Kokoon Klub (1932). In 1936, while on the Works Progress Administration graphic arts project in Cleveland, she made her first lithographs. In 1938 she moved to Jackson Heights, New York, with her husband, who opened a practice in Manhattan. A committed communist, Gross-Bettelheim was a contributor to the New Masses and the Daily Worker as well as a member of the John Reed Club and the American Artists’ Congress. During the 1930s and 1940s her works were exhibited extensively in Ohio, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. She was included in the exhibitions America Today, shown simultaneously in 30 cities (1936), Artists for Victory at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1942), and America in the War, shown simultaneously in 26 locations (1943). Following the death of her husband, she returned to Hungary after 1956. Gross-Bettelheim died in Budapest.
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 230
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measurements: Platemark: 21.4 x 17.5 cm (8 7/16 x 6 7/8 in.); Sheet: 36.6 x 26.9 cm (14 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The May Show: 17th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
opening date: 1935-04-24T05:00:00
The May Show: 17th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 24-June 2, 1935).
title: Prints Accessioned in 1935
opening date: 1936-10-14T05:00:00
Prints Accessioned in 1935. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 14-November 8, 1936).
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).
title: Jolan Gross-Bettelheim
opening date: 2001-04-25T00:00:00
Jolan Gross-Bettelheim. Faulconer Gallery, Print & Drawing Study Room - Burling Library, Grinnel, IA (April 25-May 21, 2001).
title: Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940
opening date: 2021-07-18T04:00:00
Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Jolán Gross-Bettelheim Entry Card to 1935 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS03496/
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. 142
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Stamey, Emilyand Faulconer Gallery. Jolán Gross-Bettelheim : The American Prints : Print and Drawing Study Room of the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, April 27-May 21, 2001. Grinnell, IA: Gallery, 2001.
page number: exh. cat. p. 35, fig. 7
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Channing, Laurence, "Before Neo: The May Show", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 45 no. 07, September 2005
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2005-07/page/6
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