{ "data": { "id": 156069, "accession_number": "1991.314.1.b", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Coffee Pot (lid), c. 1910. Louis Rorimer (American, 1872\u20131939), and Rokesley Shop (American). Silver, moonstones, ebony. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Louis Rorimer from his daughter, Louise Rorimer Dushkin and his granddaughter, Edie Soeiro, 1991.314.1.b", "current_location": "228B Cleveland Artists", "title": "Coffee Pot (lid)", "creation_date": "c. 1910", "creation_date_earliest": 1905, "creation_date_latest": 1915, "artists_tags": [ "female", "May Show", "male", "Jewish artists", "Cleveland Institute of Art (faculty)" ], "culture": [ "America, Ohio, Cleveland" ], "technique": "silver, moonstones, ebony", "support_materials": [], "department": "Decorative Art and Design", "collection": "Decorative Arts", "type": "Silver", "dimensions": {}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 221961, "title": "Bringing Modernism Home: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1890-1960", "description": "Bringing Modernism Home: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1890-1960. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (January 28-April 17, 2005).", "opening_date": "2005-01-28T00:00:00" } ], "legacy": [ { "description": "William H. Robinson and David Steinberg, Transformations in Cleveland Art 1796-1946 Community and Diversity in Early Modern America (The Cleveland Museum of Art/Ohio Univesity Press), p. 167, fig.178, p. 249.", "opening_date": "1946-01-01T00:00:00" }, { "description": "Columbus Museum of Art (1/28/2005 - 4/17/2005): \"Bringing Modernism Home, Ohio Decorative Arts, 1890-1960\" ex. cat. no. 10, p. 35.", "opening_date": "2005-01-28T00:00:00" } ] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Mrs. Louise Rorimer Dushkin, New York.", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Designer, interior decorator, entrepreneur, and teacher, Rorimer joined with three of his students at the Cleveland School (now Institute) of Art to found the Rokesley Shop during the early 1900s. Specializing in fine, handcrafted objects, the firm produced metalwork of various kinds, as well as enamelwork. This tea and coffee service, made for the personal use of Rorimer\u2019s family, was likely designed entirely by him. Gift in memory of Louis Rorimer from his daughter, Louise Rorimer, and his granddaughter, Edie Soeiro 1991.314.1\u20136", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60755768" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Johnston, Phillip M. Catalogue of American Silver: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 133", "url": "" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.314.1.b", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift in memory of Louis Rorimer from his daughter, Louise Rorimer Dushkin and his granddaughter, Edie Soeiro", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 156069, "creators": [ { "id": 7373, "description": "Louis Rorimer (American, 1872\u20131939)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "designed by", "biography": "Louis Rorimer was born Louis Rohrheimer in Cleveland to a German immigrant family. In the mid-1880s he studied at Cleveland\u2019s Manual Training School with sculptor Herman Matzen. Around the age of 16 Rorimer began taking classes at the Cleveland School of Art and later studied in Munich at the Kunstgewerbeschule, 1890\u201393, and in Paris at the \u00c9cole des Arts D\u00e9coratifs and the Acad\u00e9mie Julian, 1893\u201395. He returned to Cleveland in 1895, opening a design studio for handmade furniture and interior design the following year. From 1898 until his retirement in 1936, he taught decorative art and design at the Cleveland School of Art, where his students included Horace Potter, Max Kalish, Abel Warshawsky, Grace Kelly, and Charles Burchfield. Rorimer merged his studio with another interior design company in 1910 to form the Rorimer-Brooks Studios, a commercial workshop and gallery. He encouraged progressive artists to meet and display their works at his gallery, which from 1910 to 1912 mounted early exhibitions by Warshawsky, William Zorach, and the Cleveland \u201dsecessionists\u201d. In 1913 Rorimer was promoted to head of the design department at the Cleveland School of Art, and his work appeared in May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1919\u201328).
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