id: 154500 accession number: 1989.145 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.145 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:04.885000 Rain Over the Vega, c. 1927–1928. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Oil on canvas; unframed: 51 x 56.2 cm (20 1/16 x 22 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ruth Butler in memory of Gerald W. Butler 1989.145 title: Rain Over the Vega title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1927–1928 creation date earliest: 1922 creation date latest: 1933 current location: ILMA Ingalls Library and Museum Archives creditline: Gift of Ruth Butler in memory of Gerald W. Butler 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 * Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949) - artist A leader of the Cleveland modernist movement, Henry Keller grew up in the city and enrolled in the Western Reserve School of Design for Women in 1887. In 1890 he went to Karlsruhe, Germany, for a year of study with Hermann Baisch. Unable to find a teaching position after returning to Cleveland, Keller worked for eight years at the Morgan Lithograph Company, where he specialized in designing circus posters. In 1899 he returned to Germany to study at art academies in Düsseldorf and Munich. In 1902, after receiving a silver medal at the Munich Kunstakademie’ s spring exhibition, he returned to Cleveland. Around 1903 he began teaching at the Cleveland School of Art, first as a part-time watercolor instructor, then as full-time instructor of decorative illustration. He also taught private classes on family-owned farmland in Berlin Heights, Ohio, during summers from 1903 to 1914. In the 1910s he championed the cause of modern art through lectures and teaching. He exhibited in the Armory Show (1913) and the annuals of the Carnegie Institute of Art in Pittsburgh. The Cleveland School of Art sponsored several solo exhibitions of his paintings. He exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1919–50) and in annuals at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. When he retired from the Cleveland School of Art in 1945, Keller moved to San Diego, where he died.
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 232 --- measurements: Unframed: 51 x 56.2 cm (20 1/16 x 22 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed in paint on recto: Exhibited in 1928 May Show (loan number 1521.28). translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1989 opening date: 1990-02-06T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES