{ "data": { "id": 125324, "accession_number": "1947.278", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "The Driller, c. 1926. Max Kalish (American, born Russia [now Lithuania], 1891\u20131945). Bronze; overall: 40.7 x 24.2 x 19.8 cm (16 x 9 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Friends of the Artist, 1947.278", "current_location": null, "title": "The Driller", "creation_date": "c. 1926", "creation_date_earliest": 1921, "creation_date_latest": 1931, "artists_tags": [ "May Show", "Cleveland Institute of Art (alumni)", "male", "Jewish artists" ], "culture": [ "America, Ohio, Cleveland" ], "technique": "bronze", "support_materials": [], "department": "American Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "American - Sculpture", "type": "Sculpture", "measurements": "Overall: 40.7 x 24.2 x 19.8 cm (16 x 9 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "overall": { "height": 0.407, "height_inch": 16, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.242, "width_inch": 9, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5, "depth": 0.198, "depth_inch": 7, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.8125 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Signed back of base: \"M KALISH A.N.A.\"; inscribed on back edge of base: \"Modern Art Foundry\"", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 310252, "title": "Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940", "description": "Cleveland Art Comes of Age: 1919-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 28-September 10, 1989).", "opening_date": "1989-06-28T04:00:00" }, { "id": 311873, "title": "Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946", "description": "Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-July 21, 1996).", "opening_date": "1996-05-19T04:00:00" }, { "id": 177916, "title": "Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age", "description": "Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 28-July 18, 2004).", "opening_date": "2004-03-28T00:00:00" }, { "id": 441481, "title": "Gallery One 2012", "description": "Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).", "opening_date": "2012-12-12T05:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "When Max Kalish (born Kalichik) was two years old, his Orthodox Jewish family emigrated from Lithuania to Cleveland.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Kalish's celebratory sculptures of laborers rank among his most admired works. Although he was based in Cleveland and New York, the artist often had these bronzes cast during annual trips to Paris. His creative philosophy is summed up in the following statement: \"We must learn to create from the living present. In this modern industrial age, tremendous, heroic tasks are being performed and it is here that we will find our greatest art expression.\"", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60742566" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Kalish, Max. Labor Sculpture. New York, 1938.", "page_number": "Reproduced: cover, plate 10.", "url": "" }, { "citation": "Robinson, William H., et. al. Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.", "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p.116", "url": null }, { "citation": "Channing, Laurence, \"Before Neo: The May Show\", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 45 no. 07, September 2005", "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4-5", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2005-07/page/4" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.278", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of Friends of the Artist", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": "5c7a07bd734a498c9c3792da85d79b32", "sketchfab_url": "https://sketchfab.com/models/5c7a07bd734a498c9c3792da85d79b32", "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 125324, "creators": [ { "id": 19266, "description": "Max Kalish (American, born Russia [now Lithuania], 1891\u20131945)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "sculptor", "biography": "Born in Valozin, Lithuania, Max Kalish immigrated with his family to Cleveland in 1898. Shortly after their arrival they changed the family name from Kalichik to Kalish. At the age of 15 he won a scholarship from the Cleveland School of Art and studied sculpture under Herman Matzen. In 1910 Kalish enrolled in the National Academy of Design in New York. After returning to Cleveland in early 1912, he briefly shared a studio with William Zorach. Kalish traveled to Europe in 1912\u201313, studying at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts and the Acad\u00e9mie Colarossi in Paris, and exhibiting in the Paris Salon (1913). He worked as a sculptor for the Panama-Specific Exposition in San Francisco, 1913\u201314, returning to Cleveland the following year. His first solo exhibition was at Korner & Wood Galleries in Cleveland (1916). He served in the army during World War I. In 1921 he began creating bronze sculptures devoted to the theme of labor and completed the last in 1938. In 1923 Cleveland school children collected small change to fund the casting of Kalish\u2019s large-scale monument to Abraham Lincoln, which was installed in front of the School Administration Building. During the 1920s his sculptures appeared in solo shows in Cleveland and New York. He participated in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1924\u201330) as well as the annuals of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Art Institute of Chicago. In the late 1920s he began a series of marble figures that were exhibited at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York. By 1933 he had moved to New York, where he established a private school for teaching sculpture techniques. Kalish died in New York.
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