{ "data": { "id": 122732, "accession_number": "1942.910", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1927. Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906\u20131939). Drypoint; platemark: 16.3 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1942.910", "current_location": null, "title": "Brooklyn Bridge, New York", "creation_date": "1927", "creation_date_earliest": 1927, "creation_date_latest": 1927, "artists_tags": [ "May Show", "male" ], "culture": [ "America, Ohio, Cleveland" ], "technique": "drypoint", "support_materials": [], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Drypoint", "type": "Print", "measurements": "Platemark: 16.3 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "platemark": { "height": 0.163, "height_inch": 6, "height_inch_fraction": 0.4375, "width": 0.107, "width_inch": 4, "width_inch_fraction": 0.1875 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Titled, in graphite, at bottom left: Brooklyn Bridge; signed, in graphite, at bottom right: Edwin Kaufman", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 379510, "title": "The May Show: 10th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen", "description": "The May Show: 10th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 25-June 3, 1928).", "opening_date": "1928-04-25T05:00:00" } ], "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": "From 1922 to 1925, motor vehicles were banned from driving on the Brooklyn Bridge.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This dark, brooding scene places the viewer directly on the Brooklyn Bridge along its pedestrian walkway. The heavy lines and isolated, melancholy figures imbue the print with a sense of foreboding. Although Edwin Kaufman lived in New York City starting in the mid-1930s, it is likely that he made this print earlier, in the late 1920s. During this time, the artist\u2019s prints featuring city bridges and marketplaces were being recognized in exhibitions in Cleveland and New York.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79640475" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Edwin Kaufman Entry Card to 1928 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives", "page_number": "", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS01533/mode/2up" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.910", "images": { "annotation": null, "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.910/1942.910_web.jpg", "width": "581", "height": "893", "filesize": "439965", "filename": "1942.910_web.jpg" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.910/1942.910_print.jpg", "width": "1711", "height": "2630", "filesize": "3677566", "filename": "1942.910_print.jpg" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1942.910/1942.910_full.tif", "width": "1711", "height": "2630", "filesize": "13523080", "filename": "1942.910_full.tif" } }, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of Robert Hays Gries", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 122732, "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": 1927, "date_added_to_oa": 20260701, "date_text": "1927", "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": "2026-08-19 21:46:47.317000" } }