{ "data": { "id": 122726, "accession_number": "1942.905", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Mayfield Yard, Cleveland, Ohio, 1926. Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906\u20131939). Etching; platemark: 10 x 13.8 cm (3 15/16 x 5 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1942.905", "current_location": null, "title": "Mayfield Yard, Cleveland, Ohio", "creation_date": "1926", "creation_date_earliest": 1926, "creation_date_latest": 1926, "artists_tags": [ "May Show", "male" ], "culture": [ "America, Ohio, Cleveland" ], "technique": "etching", "support_materials": [ { "description": "laid paper", "watermarks": [] } ], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Etching", "type": "Print", "measurements": "Platemark: 10 x 13.8 cm (3 15/16 x 5 7/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "platemark": { "height": 0.1, "height_inch": 3, "height_inch_fraction": 0.9375, "width": 0.138, "width_inch": 5, "width_inch_fraction": 0.4375 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Signed and dated, in plate, at lower right: KAUFMAN 1926; titled, in graphite, at bottom left: Mayfield Yard; signed, in graphite, at bottom right: Edwin Kaufman", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Priced, in red pencil, on verso at upper right: P 10", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Studio of the artist, Cleveland, OH, sold to Robert Hays Gries", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "Robert Hays Gries, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1942", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1942-", "sortorder": 3 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Electric interurban railways were perfectly suited to the Cleveland area around the turn of the 20th century due to the generally flat landscape and multiple communities in close proximity.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Titled \u201cMayfield Coal Yard\u201d on a 1927 May Show entry card, this print depicts a laborer hard at work shoveling coal. The location is likely the Nickel Plate Road freight yard that stood between Mayfield Road and Euclid Avenue. The railroad was created in the 1900s by the Van Sweringen brothers, Cleveland industrialists who built miles of redundant track to compete with their rival William Vanderbilt. Despite the continued use of coal-powered railways for transporting goods in the 1920s, passengers in Cleveland typically rode electric rails.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79640449" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Edwin Kaufman Entry Card to 1927 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives", "page_number": "", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01345" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.905", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of Robert Hays Gries", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 122726, "creators": [ { "id": 15144, "description": "Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906\u20131939)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Cleveland-born printmaker and painter Edwin Kaufman was an active member of the Cleveland School during the 1930s. His formal art education began at the Cleveland School of Art, where he learned watercolor and portraiture from Henry Keller. Upon graduation in 1929, he studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich and Henry de Waroquier in Paris after winning the Agnes Gund European Traveling Scholarship. In 1930 he exhibited alongside master printmaker K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kubinyi at the Council Education Alliance in Cleveland and later published a book of etchings with Kubinyi in 1932. During the early years of the Great Depression, Kaufman participated in the Cleveland Print Makers Club, taught tooling and portraiture at the Euclid Avenue Temple, and exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art\u2019s annual May Show from 1926 to 1937 with a first prize in watercolor and intaglio in 1935. In 1933, a solo exhibition of his prints and drawings was held at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, California. That year, Kaufman also became president of the short-lived International Print Guild in New York City. In 1934, he moved to New York, and by 1936 worked for the Works Progress Administration. His work spans portraiture, city scenes from Cleveland and New York, and New England landscapes. Kaufman\u2019s career was tragically cut short by a car accident that resulted from a bridge collapse in 1939.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1906", "death_year": "1939", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1942-12-02T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1926, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "1926", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-07-02 11:05:35.342000" } }