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accession number: 2006.202
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Bedtime, 1940. Charles L. Sallée (American, 1911–2006). Oil on canvas; framed: 86.4 x 66 cm (34 x 26 in.); unframed: 79 x 66.2 cm (31 1/8 x 26 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of June Sallee Antoine in honor of our parents, Charles Louis Sallee, Sr. and Cora Nell Collier Sallee 2006.202
title: Bedtime
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creation date: 1940
creation date earliest: 1940
creation date latest: 1940
current location: 228B Cleveland Artists
creditline: Gift of June Sallee Antoine in honor of our parents, Charles Louis Sallee, Sr. and Cora Nell Collier Sallee
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culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Cleveland School
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Charles L. Sallée (American, 1911–2006) - artist
Charles Sallée was born in Oberlin, Ohio, but later moved to Sandusky, where his father established a construction contracting company. Sallée 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, 1932–33. He attended the Cleveland School of Art, 1933–38, 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’ Congress. Sallée 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 (1935–46), 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, Sallée 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
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measurements: Framed: 86.4 x 66 cm (34 x 26 in.); Unframed: 79 x 66.2 cm (31 1/8 x 26 1/16 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower left corner: "Sallée"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Hardship to Hope: African American Art from the Karamu Workshop
opening date: 2011-09-13T00:00:00
Hardship to Hope: African American Art from the Karamu Workshop. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (organizer) (September 13-December 31, 2011).
title: Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus
opening date: 2022-02-20T05:00:00
Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Exhibit by Karamu Artists,. Associated American Artists, New York, NY, (January 7-22, 1942).', 'opening_date': '2022-01-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Yet Still We Rise: African American Art in Cleveland, 1920-1970. Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, (March 15-April 20, 1996); Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (December 22, 1996-January 26, 1997) ; Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH (April 24-July 12, 1997).', 'opening_date': '1996-03-15T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
June Sallee Antoine (the artist's sister)
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Litt, Steven. "Cleveland Museum of Art Survey's America's Racial History Through Works by Modern, Contemporary Black Artists," Plain Dealer, February 27, 2022.
page number: P. D-2
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Porter, James A. Modern Negro Art. New York, NY: Dryden Press, 1943.
page number: Reproduced: p. 238
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Rahn, Zita, and Ursula Korneitchouk. Yet Still We Rise: African American Art in Cleveland, 1920-1970. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Artists Foundation, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: p. 34
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Cole, Mark "The Cleveland Gallery." Cleveland Art, no. 49 (September 2009):6.
page number: Reproduced: p. 6
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Litt, Steven. “A Sampling of the New Acquisitions on Display in the East Wing.” Cleveland Plain Dealer June 21, 2009, P. H6.
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Bassett, Mark. "Charles Sallee's Joyous Work." Link 11 (Spring, 2012):5.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 5
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Cole, Mark, Amy Sparks, and Rebecca Michaels. African American Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. ..
page number: Reproduced: p. 11; Mentioned: p 20.
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