id: 161263 accession number: 1999.40 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.40 updated: 2023-08-23 23:49:09.592000 American Pattern--Barn, 1940. Benton Spruance (American, 1904–1967). Lithograph printed in black and tan; sheet: 29.1 x 43 cm (11 7/16 x 16 15/16 in.); image: 19.5 x 35.3 cm (7 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1999.40 title: American Pattern--Barn title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1940 creation date earliest: 1940 creation date latest: 1940 current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: lithograph printed in black and tan department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Fine and Looney 184 --- CREATORS * Benton Spruance (American, 1904–1967) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 29.1 x 43 cm (11 7/16 x 16 15/16 in.); Image: 19.5 x 35.3 cm (7 11/16 x 13 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: 45 support materials: description: medium weight wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: below image in graphite; numbered, titled, and signed; signed in the stone, lower right: BS; misc. graphite notations along the bottom right edge translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints opening date: 2000-09-17T00:00:00 From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17 - November 26, 2000. "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints." --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Benton Spruance was a celebrated painter in Philadelphia but his greatest contributions were to American printmaking--as a printmaker (evident in his over 500 lithographs) and as a teacher of the history and techniques of the graphic arts. This print reflects both the artist's interest in imagery relating to the American experience and his modernist sensibilities. The image of a typical American barn has been reduced to an arrangement of Precisionist geometric forms, enlivened by a rhythmic pattern of blacks, grays and tan, punctuated by the white, unprinted areas of the paper. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES