id: 118131
accession number: 1939.248
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San Diego Mission, San Diego, California, 1939. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Black crayon and red chalk, heightened with white; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1939.248
title: San Diego Mission, San Diego, California
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creation date: 1939
creation date earliest: 1939
creation date latest: 1939
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creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
technique: black crayon and red chalk, heightened with white
department: Drawings
collection: DR - American - Cleveland School
type: Drawing
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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
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The May Show: 21st Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
opening date: 1939-05-03T04:00:00
The May Show: 21st Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 3-June 11, 1939).
title: Henry G. Keller Memorial Exhibition
opening date: 1950-02-01T05:00:00
Henry G. Keller Memorial Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 1-March 19, 1950).
title: What Was the Armory Show?
opening date: 1963-06-27T04:00:00
What Was the Armory Show?. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 27-September 15, 1963).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Henry Keller Entry Card to 1939 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS05093
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Henry G Keller, William Mathewson Milliken, and Cleveland Museum of Art. 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. 50
url: https://archive.org/details/HenryGKeller/page/n59
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