id: 130970 accession number: 1953.651 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.651 updated: 2024-05-17 11:33:24.274000 Malaga Harbor, c. 1926. Lawrence Blazey (American, 1902–1999). Watercolor; image: 21.6 x 27.3 cm (8 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift 1953.651 title: Malaga Harbor title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1926 creation date earliest: 1921 creation date latest: 1931 current location: creditline: Anonymous Gift copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: watercolor department: Drawings collection: DR - American - Cleveland School type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Lawrence Blazey (American, 1902–1999) - artist An advertising artist and industrial designer by trade, Cleveland native Lawrence Blazey produced paintings and ceramics throughout his long career. After graduating from the Cleveland School of Art in 1924, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Slade School in London. Returning to Cleveland, he taught advertising art in evening programs at his alma mater. From the 1930s through the 1980s, he worked in advertising and industrial design for various firm in Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, and Toledo. In the 1930s and 1940s he painted regularly and showed his works in solo exhibitions at the Korner & Wood Galleries and at annual group exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In the late 1930s he studied ceramics at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and subsequently showed in the annual Ceramic Nationals at the Everson Art Museum in Syracuse. He worked as a part-time instructor of ceramics at the Huntington Polytechnic Institute in Cleveland, 1948–56. Blazey continued to display his ceramics and paintings at various Cleveland exhibitions until 1992.
"Transformations in Cleveland Art" (CMA, 1996), p. 222 --- measurements: Image: 21.6 x 27.3 cm (8 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: "Le. Blazey. Painted c. 1926" translation: remark: inscription: On verso, lower right: "Malaga Harbor/looking down Calle Sancha" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years opening date: 1982-12-22T05:00:00 The Cleveland Institute of Art: 100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 22, 1982-January 30, 1983). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Third Exhibition of Water Colors and Pastels. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 14-February 15, 1926).', 'opening_date': '1926-01-14T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Myron E. Merry, Newbury, OH date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 15, 1953 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES