id: 142806 accession number: 1966.50 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.50 updated: 2023-12-07 16:49:31.231000 Student (Costume Study for Goll's "Methusalem") (recto) Amalie, Ida, and Set Designs (Studies for Goll's "Methusalem") (verso), 1922. George Grosz (German, 1893–1959). Pen and brown-black ink (applied with the aid of drafting tools) and watercolor; sheet: 52.7 x 38 cm (20 3/4 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1966.50 © Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY title: Student (Costume Study for Goll's "Methusalem") (recto) Amalie, Ida, and Set Designs (Studies for Goll's "Methusalem") (verso) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1922 creation date earliest: 1922 creation date latest: 1922 current location: creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art copyright: © Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: Germany, Berlin, 20th century technique: Pen and brown-black ink (applied with the aid of drafting tools) and watercolor department: Drawings collection: DR - German type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * George Grosz (German, 1893–1959) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 52.7 x 38 cm (20 3/4 x 14 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: upper right, in graphite: 6; by artist upper left, in brown ink: Dort kann er knacken und klirren beim sprechen [sideways along edge]; by artist, upper left, near figure's shoulder, in brown ink: Dampf / beim sprechen / von Zeit zu Zeit / aufzischen; by artist, upper left, below previous inscription, in brown ink: Zähne gleich / alten / Klaviertasten; by artist, lower right in brown ink: Kopf Maske/aufgeklappt / großes Talglicht mit / aufmontierte elektr. Birne /als Licht, von beleuchter; by artist, lower right, in brown ink: Student [underlined twice]; by artist, lower right, below previous inscription: Füße Riesen/streichholz/schachteln; lower left, in graphite: 38; by artist, bottom right, in graphite: No ["o" underlined twice] 16) zu Goll "Methusalem" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Dada Revisited opening date: Dada Revisited. Akron Art Museum (organizer). title: Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions opening date: 1966-09-10T04:00:00 Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). title: Tendencies of the Twenties opening date: 1977-08-14T04:00:00 Tendencies of the Twenties. Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 19, Germany (August 14, 1977-October 16, 1978); Städelsches Kunstinstitut im Städtischen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, Franfurt am Main, Germany (November 10, 1977-January 8, 1978). title: Dada and Surrealism Reviewed opening date: 1978-01-11T05:00:00 Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (January 11-March 27, 1978). title: Dada Revisited opening date: 1978-06-30T04:00:00 Dada Revisited. Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 15, 1978). title: DADA: Berlin, Cologne, Hannover opening date: 1980-11-05T05:00:00 DADA: Berlin, Cologne, Hannover. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, MA (November 5, 1980-January 4, 1981); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (March 3-April 19, 1981). title: Art and the Stage opening date: 1981-05-22T04:00:00 Art and the Stage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 22-August 16, 1981). title: Robots: History, Fantasy, & Reality opening date: 1985-12-01T05:00:00 Robots: History, Fantasy, & Reality. Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI (organizer) (December 1-January 19, 1985). title: Cross Section: Graphic Art in Germany after the First World War opening date: 1989-10-10T04:00:00 Cross Section: Graphic Art in Germany after the First World War. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 10, 1989-January 7, 1990). title: Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00 Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992). title: The German Tradition opening date: 1993-04-27T04:00:00 The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993). title: Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper opening date: 2018-01-14T05:00:00 Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 14-May 27, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * George Grosz. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (January - February 1954). --- PROVENANCE (Galerien Flechtheim, Berlin/Düsseldorf) date: ?-? footnotes: *
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citations: (Eugene Victor Thaw, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Baur, John Ireland Howe. George Grosz. Exh. Cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1954. page number: Mentioned: pp. 16-17, no. 36; Reproduced: p. 16 url: Rubin, William S. Dada and Surrealist Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968. page number: Mentioned: p. 88; Reproduced: plate 76 url: West, Richard. "Figure for Yvan Goll's Methusalem." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 4 (April 1968): 90-94. page number: Mentioned: pp. 90-94; Reproduced: p. 91 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969. page number: Mentioned: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n3 Ashton, Dore. "A Planned Coincidence." Art in America 57 (September-October 1969): 36-47. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 40-41 url: Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre. Exh. Cat. Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 1977. page number: Mentioned: p. 3, p. 261; Reproduced: p. 3, p. 51 url: Ades, Dawn. Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. Exh. Cat. London: Hayward Gallery, 1978. page number: Mentioned: p. 94 url: Wohl, Helmut. DADA: Berlin, Cologne, Hannover. Exh. Cat. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1980. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 12, p. 26 url: Breitman, Ellen. Art and the Stage. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 29, no. 14 url: DeShong, Alan. The Theatrical Designs of George Grosz. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 43; Reproduced: plate 14 url: Webb, Michael. "The Robots Are Here! The Robots Are Here!" Design Quarterly, no. 121 (1983): 4-21. page number: Mentioned: p. 11; Reproduced: p. 10 url: Myers, Trent. Robots: History, Fantasy, & Reality. Exh. Cat. Madison, WI: Madison Art Center, 1985. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 3, insert url: Taylor, Sue and Richard A. Born. The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 113 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: P. 246-47, 297; Reproduced: P. 247-248, cat. no. 104 url: Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 65, no. 63 url: --- IMAGES