id: 79209 accession number: 2016.205 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.205 updated: 2024-03-26 01:55:48.095000 Sketchbook, Holland, c. 1920s?. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Bound volume with cloth cover and thirty watercolor and/or graphite drawings on wove paper pages (twenty pages removed); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer 2016.205 title: Sketchbook, Holland title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1920s? creation date earliest: 1920 creation date latest: 1929 current location: creditline: Bequest of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer copyright: --- culture: America technique: bound volume with cloth cover and thirty watercolor and/or graphite drawings on wove paper pages (twenty pages removed) department: Drawings collection: DR - American - Cleveland School type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949) - artist A leader of the Cleveland modernist movement, Henry Keller grew up in the city and enrolled in the Western Reserve School of Design for Women in 1887. In 1890 he went to Karlsruhe, Germany, for a year of study with Hermann Baisch. Unable to find a teaching position after returning to Cleveland, Keller worked for eight years at the Morgan Lithograph Company, where he specialized in designing circus posters. In 1899 he returned to Germany to study at art academies in Düsseldorf and Munich. In 1902, after receiving a silver medal at the Munich Kunstakademie’ s spring exhibition, he returned to Cleveland. Around 1903 he began teaching at the Cleveland School of Art, first as a part-time watercolor instructor, then as full-time instructor of decorative illustration. He also taught private classes on family-owned farmland in Berlin Heights, Ohio, during summers from 1903 to 1914. In the 1910s he championed the cause of modern art through lectures and teaching. He exhibited in the Armory Show (1913) and the annuals of the Carnegie Institute of Art in Pittsburgh. The Cleveland School of Art sponsored several solo exhibitions of his paintings. He exhibited in the annual May Shows at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1919–50) and in annuals at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. When he retired from the Cleveland School of Art in 1945, Keller moved to San Diego, where he died.
Transformations in Cleveland Art. (CMA, 1996), p. 232 --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inside front cover, upper left corner, in graphite: $125 / 1952:19:42; inside back cover, in graphite: Cassaine colors. / Curds which are 80 water and 20 [undeciphered word] pure / cassaine add 1/3 [?] [undeciphered words] potash / when fluid add (2 [undeciphered]) oil varnish or / linseed oil. To prepare surface to paint on / disolve [sic] balsom [sic] of coparia [?] with benzene until / grease is out of balsam then spread over ground / or take casaine [sic] and water. to keep casaine [sic] / from decaying put in a pinch of salt or almond / oil or camphor disolved [sic] in turpentine. To take / chalkyness [sic] from work varnish with wax dissolved turpentine.; last page, in graphite: [undeciphered word] 2 glue then put chalk licative [?] / white lead linseed oil. [2nd line underlined] / Glue [?] 2. then spread [?] with glue / & chalk. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES