{ "data": { "id": 122729, "accession_number": "1942.908", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Town and Dune, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1923. Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906\u20131939). Etching; platemark: 12.9 x 19.7 cm (5 1/16 x 7 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1942.908", "current_location": null, "title": "Town and Dune, Cape Cod, Massachusetts", "creation_date": "1923", "creation_date_earliest": 1923, "creation_date_latest": 1923, "artists_tags": [ "May Show", "male" ], "culture": [ "America, Ohio, Cleveland" ], "technique": "etching", "support_materials": [ { "description": "laid paper", "watermarks": [ "Italian Pressed Made in the U.S.A." ] } ], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Etching", "type": "Print", "measurements": "Platemark: 12.9 x 19.7 cm (5 1/16 x 7 3/4 in.)", "dimensions": { "platemark": { "height": 0.129, "height_inch": 5, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "width": 0.197, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.75 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": "4/75", "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Signed and dated, in plate, at lower left: E KAUFMAN 1923; numbered and titled, in graphite, at bottom left: 4/75 Town + Dune, Cape Cod; signed, in graphite, at bottom right: Edwin Kaufman", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null }, { "inscription": "Priced, in red pencil, on verso at top 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": "A 1932 article in The Cleveland News describes Kaufman running out of money while staying in Provincetown in 1928\u2014a problem he solved by selling landscape etchings.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The pastoral town and open hills pictured in this print suggest Cape Cod's appeal to American artists for over a century. Created when Edwin Kaufman was only about 16 years old, the work was likely done on-site, although it is unclear whether he was visiting the town with family or on his own. Throughout his career, the artist became known for coastal scenes in New England and France, the first hints of which appear in this early work.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79640461" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.908", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of Robert Hays Gries", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 122729, "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": 1923, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "1923", "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 11:05:35.354000" } }