id:			168223
accession number:	2010.1
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.1
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:21.333000

Rho I, 1977. Jack Whitten (American, 1939–2018). Acrylic on canvas; unframed: 182.8 x 213.2 cm (71 15/16 x 83 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Scott C. Mueller and Margaret Fulton Mueller 2010.1 © Jack Whitten

title:				Rho I
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creation date:			1977
creation date earliest:		1977
creation date latest:		1977
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creditline:			Gift of Scott C. Mueller and Margaret Fulton Mueller
copyright:			© Jack Whitten

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	acrylic on canvas
department:	Contemporary Art
collection:	CONTEMP - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Jack Whitten (American, 1939–2018)  - artist

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measurements: Unframed: 182.8 x 213.2 cm (71 15/16 x 83 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus
	opening date:   2022-02-20T05:00:00
	<i>Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-June 26, 2022).

	title:		Julie Mehretu: Portals (FRONT International: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows)
	opening date:   2022-07-16T04:00:00
	<i>Julie Mehretu: Portals (FRONT International: Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 13, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Jack Whitten, </em>Alexander Grey Gallery, New York, NY (September 13 - October 20, 2007)', 'opening_date': '2007-09-13T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Collection of the artist, consigned to Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY, 2010
	date: 1997-2010
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	(Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010)
	date: 2010
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2010-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ostrow, Saul. “Process, Image and Elegy.” <em>Art in America</em> 96, no. 4 (April 2008): 148-155, 183.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 152-153
	url:		http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=asu&AN=504451986&site=ehost-live

	Cleveland Museum of Art, "Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Newest Acquisitions," September 7, 2010, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4979

	Franklin, David. <em>Director’s Choice: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, in association with London: Scala Publishers Ltd., 2012.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 72-73; mentioned: p. 73.
	url:		https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/813979055

	Franklin, David, and C. Griffith Mann. <em>Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, in association with London: Scala Publishers Ltd., 2012.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 335; mentioned: p. 334.
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	Franklin, David. “Recent Acquisitions (2005-2011) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>The Burlington Magazine </em>154, no. 1312 (July 2012): 525-32.
	page number: 	Reproduced p. 532, Fig. XX.
	url:		https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/7781121424

	Sparks, Amy and Rebecca Michaels, eds. <em>African American Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
	page number: 	Reproduced p. 6; mentioned: p. 26.
	url:		https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/828725641

	Lee, Key Jo, and William Griswold. Perceptual Drift: Black Art and an Ethics of Looking. Cleveland, OH : Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 15-31, fig. 1, 5a-b.
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