{ "data": { "id": 134751, "accession_number": "1957.263", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Old Union Station, Plate II, c. 1950. Frank Wilcox (American, 1887\u20131964). Etching; platemark: 17.3 x 22.7 cm (6 13/16 x 8 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1957.263. \u00a9 Wilcox Family Collection LLC", "current_location": null, "title": "Old Union Station, Plate II", "creation_date": "c. 1950", "creation_date_earliest": 1945, "creation_date_latest": 1955, "artists_tags": [ "male", "Cleveland Institute of Art (faculty)", "May Show", "Cleveland Institute of Art (alumni)" ], "culture": [ "America, Ohio, Cleveland" ], "technique": "etching", "support_materials": [ { "description": "laid paper", "watermarks": [ "Barcelona Catalunya Spain" ] } ], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Etching", "type": "Print", "measurements": "Platemark: 17.3 x 22.7 cm (6 13/16 x 8 15/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "platemark": { "height": 0.173, "height_inch": 6, "height_inch_fraction": 0.8125, "width": 0.227, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": "\u00a9 Wilcox Family Collection LLC", "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Inscribed and titled, in graphite, at bottom left: 10.00 Old Union Station - Plate II; signed, in graphite, at bottom right: Frank N. Wilcox.", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Studio of the artist, Cleveland, OH, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1957", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "The Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1957", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1957-", "sortorder": 3 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "At the time it was opened in 1866, Cleveland\u2019s Union Depot was the largest train station in the country.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This print is a variation on a scene featured in another print in the museum\u2019s collection (1957.262). In this version, Cleveland\u2019s Union Depot is a stronger focal point due to less detail in the clouds. Based on the attire of the figures walking in the foreground, this image is likely contemporary with Frank Wilcox\u2019s time rather than his usual nostalgic historical scene. However, the image would quickly become history. In 1959, two years after this print was accessioned by the museum, the station was torn down.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80027396" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1957.263", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 134751, "creators": [ { "id": 6783, "description": "Frank Wilcox (American, 1887\u20131964)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Cleveland-born Frank Wilcox received artistic training with Frederick Gottwald, Henry Keller, and Louis Rorimer while at tending the Cleveland School of Art, 1906\u201310. On a travel scholarship from the school, Wilcox studied at the Acad\u00e9mie Callorossi in Paris during the winter of 1910\u201311 and exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1911. He then returned to Cleveland, where the Taylor Gallery organized his first solo exhibition in the fall of 1911. The Korner & Wood Galleries organized his second solo exhibition in 1913, the same year he began teaching at the Cleveland School of Art. Among his students were Charles Burchfield, Carl Gaertner, and Clarence Carter. The Cleveland School of Art mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings (1916), and he exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1919\u201360). Wilcox made painting trips to Maine and the eastern seaboard during summers, 1920\u201325, and studied and painted in Paris, 1926\u201327. He established a reputation as a book illustrator with the publication of Ohio Indian Trails in 1933. In the 1930s his paintings appeared in group exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and in New York at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Cleveland School of Art mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings in 1937. In the 1940s he made several painting trips to the American Southwest and illustrated a historical survey of the Ohio canal system. After retiring from the Cleveland School of Art in 1957, Wilcox continued to paint. \"Transformations in Cleveland Art\" (CMA, 1996), p. 240.
Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1887", "death_year": "1964", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1957-07-29T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1945, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1950", "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 21:19:51.820000" } }