id: 136484 accession number: 1960.58 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.58 updated: 2025-06-26 11:08:07.990000 The Surge, 1958. Conrad Marca-Relli (American, 1913–2000). Oil and collage on canvas; unframed: 137.1 x 180.3 cm (54 x 71 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1960.58 title: The Surge title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1958 creation date earliest: 1958 creation date latest: 1958 current location: creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art copyright: --- culture: America technique: oil and collage on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Conrad Marca-Relli (American, 1913–2000) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 137.1 x 180.3 cm (54 x 71 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower right: Marca-Relli; signed on back of stretcher: L-6-58. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Paths of Abstract Art opening date: 1960-10-05T04:00:00 Paths of Abstract Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 5-November 13, 1960). title: Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty opening date: 1960-11-30T05:00:00 Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Marca-Relli opening date: 1967-10-03T04:00:00 Marca-Relli. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 3-November 12, 1967); Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (December 3, 1967-January 28, 1968). title: Works from the Contemporary Collection opening date: 1969-07-01T04:00:00 Works from the Contemporary Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 15, 1969). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA: Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969', 'opening_date': '1969-10-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Inc.) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Henning, Edward. "Exhibition Paths of Abstract Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 8 (October 1960): 199-201. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 200-201, fig. 1 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142412 Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisition Press Release,” October 25, 1960, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr0628 --- IMAGES