{ "data": { "id": 171597, "accession_number": "2014.38", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Where Coal and Iron Meet, 1933. George G. Adomeit (American, born Kingdom of Prussia [now Lithuania], 1879\u20131967). Color linocut; sheet: 31.7 x 41.5 cm (12 1/2 x 16 5/16 in.); image: 31.7 x 35.5 cm (12 1/2 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake, 2014.38", "current_location": null, "title": "Where Coal and Iron Meet", "creation_date": "1933", "creation_date_earliest": 1933, "creation_date_latest": 1933, "artists_tags": [ "Cleveland School", "male", "May Show" ], "culture": [ "America" ], "technique": "color linocut", "support_materials": [ { "description": "wove paper", "watermarks": [] } ], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Linocut", "type": "Print", "measurements": "Sheet: 31.7 x 41.5 cm (12 1/2 x 16 5/16 in.); Image: 31.7 x 35.5 cm (12 1/2 x 14 in.)", "dimensions": { "sheet": { "height": 0.317, "height_inch": 12, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.415, "width_inch": 16, "width_inch_fraction": 0.3125 }, "image": { "height": 0.317, "height_inch": 12, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.355, "width_inch": 14, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 382024, "title": "The May Show: 15th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen", "description": "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).", "opening_date": "1933-05-02T04:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "John Bonebrake, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-2014", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2014-", "sortorder": 2 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Adomeit cofounded the Caxton Engraving Company in 1902, which became one of the top five printing companies in the United States by 1925.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "In this image, a lone human figure is surrounded by mountains of raw material and towering furnaces. Cleveland\u2019s steel mills employed many residents during this period and were significant contributors to the city\u2019s wealth. The figure pictured here seems embedded within the complex, much like how labor was a crucial part of its operation. Adomeit likely had complex feelings toward his subject: while he was drawn to unpolluted landscapes and agricultural scenes, he also participated in industry as a commercial printmaker to fund his summer trips to artist colonies along the east coast.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80082234" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "George G. Adomeit collection. Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/GeorgeAdomeit" }, { "citation": "George G. Adomeit Entry Card to 1933 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMS02700" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.38", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Bequest of John Bonebrake", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 171597, "creators": [ { "id": 4382, "description": "George G. Adomeit (American, born Kingdom of Prussia [now Lithuania], 1879\u20131967)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "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.
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