id: 167679 accession number: 2009.356 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.356 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:18.155000 Sailing Provincetown, 1916. William Zorach (American, 1889–1966). Linocut; sheet: 41.3 x 34.2 cm (16 1/4 x 13 7/16 in.); image: 27.2 x 21.9 cm (10 11/16 x 8 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust 2009.356 title: Sailing Provincetown title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1916 creation date earliest: 1916 creation date latest: 1916 current location: creditline: Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: linocut department: Prints collection: PR - Linocut type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * William Zorach (American, 1889–1966) - artist Although his birth date is usually given as 1887, he changed it from 1889 to 1887 at the time of his marriage in 1912 so that his wife Marguerite, born in 1887, would not appear older than he. The 1889 birth date and the reason for the change have been verified by William Zorach’s sister, Ida Schoener of Cleveland. See also letter from William Zorach to Marguerite Thompson, December 7, 1911 at the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. The above information came from the publication, Marguerite Zorach: The Early Years, 1908-1920 Published for the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, City of Washington, 1973, p. 58, note 14. --- measurements: Sheet: 41.3 x 34.2 cm (16 1/4 x 13 7/16 in.); Image: 27.2 x 21.9 cm (10 11/16 x 8 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: Japanese paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: Lower margin, in pencil: "Sailing Provincetown William Zorach 1916" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES