{ "data": { "id": 157419, "accession_number": "1994.274", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Anna, c. 1940. Charles L. Sall\u00e9e (American, 1911\u20132006). Etching and aquatint; plate: 24.5 x 19.8 cm (9 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.); sheet: 30.5 x 25.5 cm (12 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Puskas, 1994.274. \u00a9 The Estate of Charles L. Sall\u00e9e", "current_location": null, "title": "Anna", "creation_date": "c. 1940", "creation_date_earliest": 1935, "creation_date_latest": 1945, "artists_tags": [ "May Show", "Cleveland Institute of Art (alumni)", "male", "Black American Artists" ], "culture": [ "America" ], "technique": "etching and aquatint", "support_materials": [], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Etching", "type": "Print", "measurements": "Plate: 24.5 x 19.8 cm (9 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 30.5 x 25.5 cm (12 x 10 1/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "plate": { "height": 0.245, "height_inch": 9, "height_inch_fraction": 0.625, "width": 0.198, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.8125 }, "sheet": { "height": 0.305, "height_inch": 12, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.255, "width_inch": 10, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0625 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": "possibly 25 to 50", "copyright": "\u00a9 The Estate of Charles L. Sall\u00e9e", "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "inscribed, lower left margin, in graphite: ANNA; lower center margin, in graphite [later hand?]: WPA; lower right margin, in graphite: C. Sall\u00e9e", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 667699, "title": "Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community", "description": "Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-August 17, 2025).", "opening_date": "2025-03-23T04:00:00" } ], "legacy": [ { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (1/26/2014 - 5/18/2014); \"Our Stories: African American Prints and Drawings\"", "opening_date": "2014-01-26T00:00:00" } ] }, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Charles Sall\u00e9e also made a print of Anna drawing in a class at Karamu House.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Here, Charles Sall\u00e9e depicted a fellow artist from Karamu\u2019s studio art program. He described knowing her from classes and admiring her \u201ccurious, inquiring quality.\u201d Sall\u00e9e noted that this print was made through the WPA, or Works Progress Administration, a federally funded program that supported artists during the financial strife of the Great Depression. Sall\u00e9e frequented Cleveland\u2019s WPA graphic arts workshop, where he experimented with aquatint, the technique used for grainy areas of tone in the background and in Anna\u2019s skin and hair. This process was popular at the workshop, with some participants even inventing their own variations.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79973678" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Glaubinger, Jane. \"A Salute to Sallee.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 46, no. 6 (March 2006): 8-10.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 8", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2006-06/page/8/mode/2up" }, { "citation": "Benay, Erin. \"Peripheral Prints: Karamu House and the Rise of African American Art in the Midwest.\" Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 10, no. 1 (Spring 2024).", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: fig. 4", "url": "https://journalpanorama.org/article/peripheral-prints/" }, { "citation": "Salsbury, Britany, and Erin E. Benay. Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2025.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 94, no. 45", "url": "" } ], "catalogue_raisonne": "Salsbury, Benay, and Kruse 70 (as Martha)", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.274", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of John Puskas", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 157419, "creators": [ { "id": 7975, "description": "Charles L. Sall\u00e9e (American, 1911\u20132006)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Charles Sall\u00e9e was born in Oberlin, Ohio, but later moved to Sandusky, where his father established a construction contracting company. Sall\u00e9e learned the building trade from his father but decided to pursue a career in art. In 1931 he moved to Cleveland and attended art classes at Karamu House, then known as the Playhouse Settlement. He studied lithography and etching techniques at the Huntington Poly technic Institute, 1932\u201333. He attended the Cleveland School of Art, 1933\u201338, studying with Carl Gaertner, Viktor Schreckengost, Rolf Stoll, and Paul Travis. In 1939 he earned a B.S. in education from Western Reserve College and began teaching art in the Cleveland school system. In 1936 he joined the local chapter of the American Artists\u2019 Congress. Sall\u00e9e worked on several Works Progress Administration projects, 1936 creating prints, then painting murals. His WPA commissions included work for Sunny Acres Hospital, the Outhwaite Homes, and Cleveland Municipal Airport, as well as the Fort Hays Homes in Columbus, Ohio. He exhibited in the May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1935\u201346), and in group exhibitions at Howard University (1937) and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. (1940), the Tanner Art Galleries of Chicago (1940), the Associated American Art Galleries of New York (1941), and Atlanta University (1942). The North Canton Library in Canton, Ohio, organized his first solo exhibition in 1940. He was drafted into the Army Corps of Engineers during World War II and worked as a cartographer and camouflage designer. After the war, he began a career in interior design. For the next four decades, Sall\u00e9e worked for various interior design firms in Cleveland, designing corporate offices, nightclubs, hotels, and restaurants for such clients as Cleveland Trust, Stouffer Hotel, and the Cleveland Browns.
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 236", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1911", "death_year": "2006", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1994-12-06T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1935, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1940", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [ "Martha" ], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:48.531000" } }