id: 145277 accession number: 1970.52 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.52 updated: 2023-03-28 15:20:04.395000 Forest, 1916. Jean Arp (French, 1887–1966). Painted wood; overall: 41.3 x 53 x 8.3 cm (16 1/4 x 20 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1970.52 © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn title: Forest title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1916 creation date earliest: 1916 creation date latest: 1916 current location: 225 German Expressionism & Surrealism creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art copyright: © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn --- culture: France, 20th century technique: painted wood department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Sculpture 1800-1960 type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean Arp (French, 1887–1966) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 41.3 x 53 x 8.3 cm (16 1/4 x 20 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1970 opening date: 1971-02-10T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971). title: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960 opening date: 1987-09-16T04:00:00 Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987). title: Conserving the Past for the Future opening date: 2001-03-04T00:00:00 Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001). title: Dada opening date: 2006-02-19T00:00:00 Dada. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (February 19-May 14, 2006); The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (June 16-September 11, 2006). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). title: Inventing Abstraction, 1912-1925 opening date: 2012-12-23T00:00:00 Inventing Abstraction, 1912-1925. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (December 23, 2012-April 15, 2013). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2/19/2006 - 5/14/2006) and Museum of Modern Art, New York (6/16/2006 - 9/11/2006): "Dada" ex. cat. no. 38, p. 67.
Museum of Modern Art, New York (12/23/2012 - 4/15/2013): "Inventing Abstraction, 1912-1925", ex. cat. no. 340, p. 285. --- PROVENANCE Roland Penrose Collection, London date: footnotes: citations: Paul Éluard Collection, Paris date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This relief of painted wood was inspired by the branches, roots, and foliage Arp observed around Ascona, a Swiss town on Lake Maggiore. Ascona was an important meeting place for the Dada group Arp helped establish around 1915. Dada artists gathered in Switzerland to escape the senseless slaughter and dehumanizing, industrialized combat of World War I. Arp's ambition was to create a radically new art suggesting the simplest, most naive elements. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 246 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n266 Henning, Edward B. The Spirit of Surrealism. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979. page number: Reproduced: p. 16, no. 6A, Colorplate VII; Mentioned: p. 15-16, 171 url: Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 126, no. 34 url: Spies, Christian. "Sculpture and/or Object: Hans Arp Between Minimal and Pop." In Hans Arp and Other Masters of 20th Century Sculpture. Elisa Tamaschke, Jana Teuscher, and Loretta Wurtenberger, eds., 142-159. Berlin: Stiftung Hans Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp e.V., 2020. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 142-143, fig. 2 url: --- IMAGES