id: 142664 accession number: 1966.387 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.387 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:16.832000 July, 1893. Otto H. Bacher (American, 1856–1909). Oil on canvas; unframed: 90 x 57.5 cm (35 7/16 x 22 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Will Low Bacher 1966.387 title: July title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1893 creation date earliest: 1893 creation date latest: 1893 current location: creditline: Gift of Will Low Bacher copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Cleveland School type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Otto H. Bacher (American, 1856–1909) - artist Painter and printmaker Otto Bacher was the first artist from Cleveland to earn international renown in the art world. Born in Cleveland, Bacher grew up in a neighborhood bordering the east bank of the Cuyahoga River near the mouth of Lake Erie. A childhood pastime of sketching shipping activities in the busy port eventually led to a job painting inscriptions on commercial vessels. He became interested in art during his teen years and studied with De Scott Evans and also learned from Willis Seaver Adams and Sion Wenban. In 1876 Bacher helped found the Art Club and had a solo show at the Kemmer and Kushman Decorating Company. The following year he had his second solo exhibition, at J. W. Sargeant’ s Art Shop. He traveled to Europe in 1878, attended the Munich Royal Academy, and studied with Cincinnati native Frank Duveneck in Munich, Florence, and Venice. A chance meeting in Venice with James A. McNeill Whistler in 1880 led to a long friendship that had a decisive effect on Bacher’ s etching style. In 1883 Bacher returned to Cleveland and began teaching at the Cleveland Academy of Art and privately at a summer retreat he organized in Richfield, Ohio. He returned to Europe in 1885, hoping to stay for an extended period, but his financial situation forced him to come back to America. After a brief visit to Cleveland, Bacher settled in New York City. To support himself, he did illustrations for Century Magazine in 1888. In 1895 he moved to Bronxville, New York, and by that time his artistic style revealed a strong debt to impressionism. During the last two decades of his life, he exhibited in New York, London, Paris, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Cleveland. Bacher died in Bronxville.
"Transformations in Cleveland Art" (CMA, 1996), p. 222. --- measurements: Unframed: 90 x 57.5 cm (35 7/16 x 22 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower right: Otto H. Bacher 93 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). title: American Impressionistic Painting opening date: 1973-07-01T04:00:00 American Impressionistic Painting. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (July 1-August 12, 1973); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (September 18-November 12, 1973); The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (December 15, 1973-January 31, 1974); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (March 8-April 29, 1974). title: Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820 - 1940 opening date: 1977-02-18T05:00:00 Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820 - 1940. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (organizer) (February 18-April 10, 1977). title: American Impressionism opening date: 1980-01-03T05:00:00 American Impressionism. Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (organizer) (January 3-March 2, 1980); Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (March 9-May 4, 1980); Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL (May 16-June 22, 1980); The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, MA (July 1-August 31, 1980). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'New York, Sixteenth Exhibition of the Society of American Artists (1894).', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Buffalo, Pan-American Exposition (1901) cat. no. 256, listed p. 24, under title July.', 'opening_date': '1901-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific Internation Exposition: Department of Fine Arts (1915), cat. no. 2619, listed p. 285.', 'opening_date': '1915-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, The Walpole Galleries, Exhibition and Sale of Paintings of the Late Otto H. Bacher (13, 22-23, January 1917), cat. no.25; listed p. 7.', 'opening_date': '1917-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Commemorative Exhibition by Members of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1925 (17 October-15 November 1925); traveled to New York, The Grand Central Art Galleries (1 December 1925-3 January 1926), cat. no. 187; title given: Figure in Sunlight.', 'opening_date': '1925-10-17T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Washington, National Gallery of Art, American Impressionist Painting (1 July-26 August 1973); traveled to New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art (18 September-2 November 1973); to Cincinnati, Cinncinnati Art Museum (15 December 1973-31 January 1974); to Raleigh, The North Carolina Museum of Art (8 March-29 April 1974); cat. no. 2, illus. p. 54.', 'opening_date': '1973-07-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'St. Louis, The St. Louis Art Museum, Currents of Expansion: Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940 (18 February-10 April 1977), cat. no. 75, illus. p. 37.', 'opening_date': '1977-02-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, American Impressionism (3 January-2 March 1980); traveled to Los Angeles, The Frederick S. Wight Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles (9 March-4 May 1980); to Evanston, IL, The Terra Museum of American Art (16 May-22 June 1980); to Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art (1 July-31 August 1980); no cat. number, illus p. 24 in section 3 entitled "Landscape and Light in American Painting of the 1880\'s."', 'opening_date': '1980-01-03T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, One Cleveland Center Gallery, The Cleveland Museum Presents Four Cleveland Artists: George Adomeit, Otto Bacher, Frederick Gottwald, and Walter Sinz (15 October-2 November 1984).', 'opening_date': '1984-10-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Madison, WI, Madison Art Center, The Seasons: American Impressionist Painting (8 December 1984-2 February 1985), cat. no. 1, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1984-12-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Jacksonville, Fl, The Cummer Gallery of Art, Artistic Transitions: From the Academy to Impressionism in American Art, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition (24 October 1986-11 January 1987), cat. no. 1, illus. p. 18.', 'opening_date': '1986-10-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fraternité: Artistic Relations between France & America (21 July-18 October 1987), no catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1987-07-21T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Will Low Bacher, the artist's son. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Francis, Henry S. "Annual Report for 1966: Paintings." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (June 1967) pp. 168-170. page number: 168-170 url: DeKay,Charles. "The Quarter's Art." The Quarterly Illustrator 2, no. 6 (April, May, June 1894) p. 206-207. page number: 206-207 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.387/1966.387_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.387/1966.387_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.387/1966.387_full.tif