{ "data": { "id": 115654, "accession_number": "1936.370", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Expanse, 1935. K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kubinyi (American, 1906\u20131973). Linocut; image: 31.1 x 20.4 cm (12 1/4 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1936.370", "current_location": null, "title": "Expanse", "creation_date": "1935", "creation_date_earliest": 1935, "creation_date_latest": 1935, "artists_tags": [ "May Show", "Cleveland Institute of Art (alumni)", "male" ], "culture": [ "America, Ohio, Cleveland" ], "technique": "linocut", "support_materials": [ { "description": "Koyena handmade paper", "watermarks": [] } ], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Linocut", "type": "Print", "measurements": "Image: 31.1 x 20.4 cm (12 1/4 x 8 1/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "image": { "height": 0.311, "height_inch": 12, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 0.204, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0625 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": "50", "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Titled and dated, in graphite, at bottom left: Expanse \u201835; signed, in graphite, at bottom right: K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kubinyi", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 382027, "title": "The May Show: 18th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen", "description": "The May Show: 18th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 6-June 14, 1936).", "opening_date": "1936-05-06T04:00:00" }, { "id": 356682, "title": "Recent Accessions of Prints and Drawings", "description": "Recent Accessions of Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 6-31, 1937).", "opening_date": "1937-10-06T05:00:00" }, { "id": 345621, "title": "May Show Prints: Purchases for 1936-1938", "description": "May Show Prints: Purchases for 1936-1938. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 4, 1938).", "opening_date": "1938-11-09T05:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Studio of the artist, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1936", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1936", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1936-", "sortorder": 3 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The long coat and gloves worn by the woman in the image may be a driving outfit, a trend from the early 1900s that came to be associated with the rise of automobiles and women\u2019s independence.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "In this work, Kubinyi created a vision of modern industry. A woman sits on a desk featuring academic symbols: a beaker for chemistry, a book for history and literature, and a leafy plant for biology. Beyond her, human creations fill the landscape. A barge floats down a river lined with impressive bridges and factory smokestacks, while above an airplane flies beneath what may be a visual interpretation of radio waves. The busy image suggests an expansive future that awaits humanity.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80009247" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kubinyi Entry Card to 1936 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS04025/" } ], "catalogue_raisonne": "Dancyger, 51", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.370", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 115654, "creators": [ { "id": 20121, "description": "K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kubinyi (American, 1906\u20131973)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Born in Cleveland, Kalman Kubinyi was raised in the city's large Hungarian community. While a child, he attended art classes taught by William Zorach at the Jewish Council for Education Alliance. Primarily financed by scholarships, Kubinyi attended the Cleveland School of Art, graduating in 1926. In 1927 he studied in Munich with his uncle Sandor Kubinyi von Demenfalva, who introduced him to intaglio processes. During the 1920s-40s, Kubinyi was active in the graphic arts as an artist, a teacher, and an administrator. He frequently participated in competitive print exhibitions in Cleveland, Dayton, Chicago, and New York City, including the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1926-45), the Venice Biennale, and the New York World's Fair (1939). He taught print-making at the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art, 1936-40, as well as at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In 1930 he founded the Cleveland Print Makers and was listed as its president until 1941. He also organized the Cleveland Print Market in 1932 and was its director until 1934, when his brother took over the business end. In 1933 Kubinyi married his former classmate, the artist Doris Hall. He was the supervisor for the Cleveland graphic arts project of the Works Progress Administration, 1935-39, and district supervisor of the entire Cleveland WPA project, 1939. He was active in the Cleveland Artist's Union and a member of the American Artists' Congress, participating in their exhibition America Today (1936). He contributed to the Cleveland cultural periodicals IV Arts and Crossroads. After two sessions as a visiting instructor at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1948-50, Kubinyi moved to Gloucester, Massachusetts, and opened a gallery. He and his wife worked at the Bettinger Company in Waltham, Massachusetts, making enameled murals, but were forced to quit because the process made Doris Hall severely ill. The couple moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1963. In 1967 Kubinyi began working for Stockbridge School as director of the art department. Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), pp.232-33.
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