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accession number: 1946.162
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The Aviary, 1945. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Watercolor; The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Sesquicentennial Award 1946.162
title: The Aviary
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creation date: 1945
creation date earliest: 1945
creation date latest: 1945
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creditline: The Cleveland Sesquicentennial Award
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culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
technique: watercolor
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: 28th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen
opening date: 1946-04-13T05:00:00
The May Show: 28th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 13-June 9, 1946).
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: Water Colors from the Museum Collection
opening date: 1973-07-23T04:00:00
Water Colors from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-September 16, 1973).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Henry Keller Entry Card to 1946 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS07515
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Henry G Keller, and William Mathewson Milliken. 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. 44; Reproduced: Plate XXXVII
url: https://archive.org/details/HenryGKeller/page/n105
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