id: 160576 accession number: 1998.353 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.353 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:37.373000 Banyan Tree, 1935. Sheffield Harold Kagy (American, 1907–1989). Linoleum cut; sheet: 34.3 x 45.8 cm (13 1/2 x 18 1/16 in.); image: 25.5 x 34.8 cm (10 1/16 x 13 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Gordon K. Mott 1998.353 title: Banyan Tree title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1935 creation date earliest: 1935 creation date latest: 1935 current location: creditline: Bequest of Gordon K. Mott copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: linoleum cut department: Prints collection: PR - Linocut type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Sheffield Harold Kagy (American, 1907–1989) - artist Active as a printmaker in Cleveland in the 1930s, Sheffield Kagy specialized in block prints of contemporary scenes. Born and raised in Cleveland, he studied with Henry Keller and Paul Travis at the Cleveland School of Art and with Ernest Fiene at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. In 1932 Kagy opened the short-lived Sheffield Studio School of Art in Cleveland, which offered basic art instruction taught by a faculty that included Kalman Kubinyi. Kagy was one of only two Cleveland artists to make prints for the Public Works of Art Project in 1934. He made several linoleum cuts and at least one lithograph for the Cleveland graphic arts project of the Works Progress Administration in 1936. Kagy was a vice president of the Cleveland Print Makers and showed his work in many local exhibitions including several May Shows (1931-41). He participated in annual print exhibitions in Chicago, Cleveland, and Dayton, and his work also appeared in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Venice, Italy. Kagy moved to Washington in 1936 and taught fine arts and printmaking at the Abbott Art School. He worked for the Treasury Department, 1937-40, and painted murals for post offices in Walterboro, South Carolina, and Luray, Virginia. Modeled on the Cleveland Print Makers, Kagy organized the Washington Print Maker's Club in 1940, whose members included Herman Maril and Prentiss Taylor. Kagy was head of the art department at Chevy Chase Junior College in Maryland, 1940-43, then served in the navy as a camouflage designer for the Bureau of Ships until 1945. After the war he became a professor of fine arts at the National Art School, a post he held until 1956. He was an exhibition officer and designer for the State Department, 1959-73. Kagy died in Washington. Bill Robinson, David Steinberg, "Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1945" (CMA, 1996), p. 231. --- measurements: Sheet: 34.3 x 45.8 cm (13 1/2 x 18 1/16 in.); Image: 25.5 x 34.8 cm (10 1/16 x 13 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: 250 support materials: description: White Sulgrave paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed in graphite, lower right: Sheffield Kagy, initials engraved on plate; lower left: Banyan Tree translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES