id: 156071 accession number: 1991.314.2.a share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.314.2.a updated: 2024-03-27 11:00:50.614000 Teapot, c. 1910. Louis Rorimer (American, 1872–1939), and Rokesley Shop (American). Silver, moonstones, ebony; overall: 17.8 x 26.7 x 15.4 cm (7 x 10 1/2 x 6 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in memory of Louis Rorimer from his daughter, Louise Rorimer Dushkin and his granddaughter, Edie Soeiro 1991.314.2.a title: Teapot title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1910 creation date earliest: 1905 creation date latest: 1915 current location: 228B Cleveland Artists creditline: Gift in memory of Louis Rorimer from his daughter, Louise Rorimer Dushkin and his granddaughter, Edie Soeiro copyright: --- culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland technique: silver, moonstones, ebony department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Silver find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Louis Rorimer (American, 1872–1939) - designed by Louis Rorimer was born Louis Rohrheimer in Cleveland to a German immigrant family. In the mid-1880s he studied at Cleveland’s 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, 1890–93, and in Paris at the École des Arts Décoratifs and the Académie Julian, 1893–95. 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 ”secessionists”. 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 (1919–28).
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 235 * Rokesley Shop (American) - made at Rokesley Shop (Mary Blakeslee [1875-1964], Carolyn Hadlow [1878-1953], Ruth Smedley [1882-1920]). --- measurements: Overall: 17.8 x 26.7 x 15.4 cm (7 x 10 1/2 x 6 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Bringing Modernism Home: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1890-1960 opening date: 2005-01-28T00:00:00 Bringing Modernism Home: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1890-1960. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (January 28-April 17, 2005). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Louise Rorimer Dushkin, New York. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Johnston, Phillip M. Catalogue of American Silver: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1994. page number: mentioned and reproduced P 133 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=29477961 Robinson, William H. and David Steinberg. Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: mentioned PP 167 & 249 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=34410438 Boram-Hays, Carol Sue. Bringing Modernism Home: Ohio Decorative Arts, 1890-1960. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. page number: mentioned and reproduced P 35, cat. no. 10 url: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=56599772 --- IMAGES