{ "data": { "id": 172386, "accession_number": "2014.99", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Industrial Factory Scene. K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kubinyi (American, 1906\u20131973). Woodcut; sheet: 22.5 x 28.5 cm (8 7/8 x 11 1/4 in.); image: 19.2 x 24.7 cm (7 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake, 2014.99", "current_location": null, "title": "Industrial Factory Scene", "creation_date": null, "creation_date_earliest": null, "creation_date_latest": null, "artists_tags": [ "Cleveland Institute of Art (alumni)", "May Show", "male" ], "culture": [ "America" ], "technique": "woodcut", "support_materials": [ { "description": "wove paper", "watermarks": [] } ], "department": "Prints", "collection": "PR - Woodcut", "type": "Print", "measurements": "Sheet: 22.5 x 28.5 cm (8 7/8 x 11 1/4 in.); Image: 19.2 x 24.7 cm (7 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.)", "dimensions": { "sheet": { "height": 0.225, "height_inch": 8, "height_inch_fraction": 0.875, "width": 0.285, "width_inch": 11, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25 }, "image": { "height": 0.192, "height_inch": 7, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5625, "width": 0.247, "width_inch": 9, "width_inch_fraction": 0.75 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Signed, in plate, at lower right: K", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "John Puskas", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-2001", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "John Bonebrake, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-2014", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2014-", "sortorder": 3 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "After being discharged from the Works Progress Administration, Kubinyi worked as a foreman at the S. K. Wellman Company, which produced brakes and tires for airplanes and automobiles.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This scene was likely inspired by Cleveland\u2019s Industrial Valley, specifically the steel mills that are still in operation today. By the late 1930s, air pollution was becoming a significant issue for many living and working in the area, leading to obscured sunlight, respiratory issues, and cancer. Kubinyi\u2019s print cleanses the valley of smoke, using sharp lines and slanted rays to emphasize the grandeur of the complex. The artist may have created this work during the Great Depression or World War II to express appreciation for American manufacturing.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80084234" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.99", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Bequest of John Bonebrake", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 172386, "creators": [ { "id": 20121, "description": "K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Kubinyi (American, 1906\u20131973)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Born in Cleveland, Kalman Kubinyi was raised in the city's large Hungarian community. While a child, he attended art classes taught by William Zorach at the Jewish Council for Education Alliance. Primarily financed by scholarships, Kubinyi attended the Cleveland School of Art, graduating in 1926. In 1927 he studied in Munich with his uncle Sandor Kubinyi von Demenfalva, who introduced him to intaglio processes. During the 1920s-40s, Kubinyi was active in the graphic arts as an artist, a teacher, and an administrator. He frequently participated in competitive print exhibitions in Cleveland, Dayton, Chicago, and New York City, including the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1926-45), the Venice Biennale, and the New York World's Fair (1939). He taught print-making at the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art, 1936-40, as well as at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In 1930 he founded the Cleveland Print Makers and was listed as its president until 1941. He also organized the Cleveland Print Market in 1932 and was its director until 1934, when his brother took over the business end. In 1933 Kubinyi married his former classmate, the artist Doris Hall. He was the supervisor for the Cleveland graphic arts project of the Works Progress Administration, 1935-39, and district supervisor of the entire Cleveland WPA project, 1939. He was active in the Cleveland Artist's Union and a member of the American Artists' Congress, participating in their exhibition America Today (1936). He contributed to the Cleveland cultural periodicals IV Arts and Crossroads. After two sessions as a visiting instructor at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1948-50, Kubinyi moved to Gloucester, Massachusetts, and opened a gallery. He and his wife worked at the Bettinger Company in Waltham, Massachusetts, making enameled murals, but were forced to quit because the process made Doris Hall severely ill. The couple moved to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1963. In 1967 Kubinyi began working for Stockbridge School as director of the art department. Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), pp.232-33.
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