id: 171507 accession number: 2014.30 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.30 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:40.322000 Back of Houses in Snow, 1933. George G. Adomeit (American, 1879–1967). Color woodcut; sheet: 22.2 x 28.5 cm (8 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.); image: 16.5 x 19.2 cm (6 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake 2014.30 title: Back of Houses in Snow title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1933 creation date earliest: 1933 creation date latest: 1933 current location: creditline: Bequest of John Bonebrake copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: color woodcut department: Prints collection: PR - Woodcut type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * George G. Adomeit (American, 1879–1967) - artist A major painter of American scene subjects, George Adomeit was born in Memel, Germany and came to Cleveland at the age of four with his family. He worked as a commercial printer and lithographer for most of his life. After serving an apprenticeship in a local photo-engraving shop, he cofounded the Caxton Company, an engraving and commercial art firm that gained national acclaim. He eventually served as company president and, although his duties at the firm were time-consuming, he continued to pursue painting and printmaking. His talent for drawing led to formal art training, first at the Art Club with Frederick Gottwald, Max Bohn, and Ora Coltman and later at the Cleveland School of Art, from which he graduated in 1911. Adomeit's first solo exhibition, at Taylor Gallery (1912), was of work painted during previous summers in Zoar, Ohio, a popular outdoor painting locale for artists interested in rural subject matter. One of the founders of the Cleveland Society of Artists, Adomeit exhibited with that organization through the 1930s, and his paintings appeared regularly in the May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1919-1959). His imagery was inspired by many locations, including the Cleveland area and vacation spots such as Cape Cod, Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine, and sites in Mexico, Canada, and Brazil. He also attained a national reputation by exhibiting in annual group shows at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1925-1941), the Toledo Museum of Art (1928-1935), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1928-1937), and museums in Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Los Angeles, and New York. During the 1940s, his paintings appeared in solo exhibitions at galleries in Cleveland and Washington, D. C. After his retirement from the Caxton Company in 1956, Adomeit continued to travel, paint, and exhibit.
"Transformations in Cleveland Art" (CMA, 1996), p. 221.
Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. --- measurements: Sheet: 22.2 x 28.5 cm (8 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.); Image: 16.5 x 19.2 cm (6 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower right: Geo. G. Adomeit translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The May Show: 15th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen opening date: 1933-05-02T04:00:00 The May Show: 15th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 2-June 11, 1933). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS George G. Adomeit collection. Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/GeorgeAdomeit George G. Adomeit Entry Card to 1933 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMS02700 --- IMAGES