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"tombstone": "Sunday, 1935. Frank Wilcox (American, 1887\u20131964). Watercolor; paper: 36.5 x 52.4 cm (14 3/8 x 20 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Traveling Exhibitions Fund, 1935.76. \u00a9 Wilcox Family Collection LLC",
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"title": "Sunday",
"creation_date": "1935",
"creation_date_earliest": 1935,
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"measurements": "Paper: 36.5 x 52.4 cm (14 3/8 x 20 5/8 in.)",
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"copyright": "\u00a9 Wilcox Family Collection LLC",
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"inscription": "Signed, in black ink, at bottom right: WILCOX",
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"title": "The May Show: 17th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen",
"description": "The May Show: 17th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 24-June 2, 1935).",
"opening_date": "1935-04-24T05:00:00"
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"title": "Cleveland Traditions: Enamels and Watercolors from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Cleveland Traditions: Enamels and Watercolors from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30-October 16, 1983).",
"opening_date": "1983-09-30T04:00:00"
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"description": "Studio of the artist, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"did_you_know": "By the 1940s, Wilcox\u2019s paintings were marketed as telling the story of Ohio between the years 1780 and 1890.",
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"description": "This regionalist image appears to depict a small crowd dressed in Sunday finery dispersing from a church, likely after a morning service. Although many of Frank Wilcox\u2019s images from this period are set in his native Brecksville, the ample trees and building facade do not match the Congregational Church that stood in town. The inclusion of a horse and buggy may also suggest that this is a historical image, removing modern automobiles from the scene to preserve a sense of village life.",
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"citation": "Frank Wilcox 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/CMAMS03813/"
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"creditline": "Cleveland Traveling Exhibitions Fund",
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"description": "Frank Wilcox (American, 1887\u20131964)",
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"biography": "Cleveland-born Frank Wilcox received artistic training with Frederick Gottwald, Henry Keller, and Louis Rorimer while at tending the Cleveland School of Art, 1906\u201310. On a travel scholarship from the school, Wilcox studied at the Acad\u00e9mie Callorossi in Paris during the winter of 1910\u201311 and exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1911. He then returned to Cleveland, where the Taylor Gallery organized his first solo exhibition in the fall of 1911. The Korner & Wood Galleries organized his second solo exhibition in 1913, the same year he began teaching at the Cleveland School of Art. Among his students were Charles Burchfield, Carl Gaertner, and Clarence Carter. The Cleveland School of Art mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings (1916), and he exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1919\u201360). Wilcox made painting trips to Maine and the eastern seaboard during summers, 1920\u201325, and studied and painted in Paris, 1926\u201327. He established a reputation as a book illustrator with the publication of Ohio Indian Trails in 1933. In the 1930s his paintings appeared in group exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and in New York at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Cleveland School of Art mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings in 1937. In the 1940s he made several painting trips to the American Southwest and illustrated a historical survey of the Ohio canal system. After retiring from the Cleveland School of Art in 1957, Wilcox continued to paint. \"Transformations in Cleveland Art\" (CMA, 1996), p. 240.
Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"birth_year": "1887",
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"updated_at": "2026-08-05 12:03:12.308000"
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