id: 79210 accession number: 2016.206 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.206 updated: 2024-03-26 01:55:48.100000 Sketchbook, Spain, c. 1922. Henry Keller (American, 1869–1949). Bound volume with cloth cover and 75 drawings on wove paper pages; sketchbook: 25.8 x 21.1 cm (10 3/16 x 8 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer 2016.206 title: Sketchbook, Spain title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1922 creation date earliest: 1917 creation date latest: 1927 current location: creditline: Bequest of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer copyright: --- culture: America technique: bound volume with cloth cover and 75 drawings on wove paper pages 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: Sketchbook: 25.8 x 21.1 cm (10 3/16 x 8 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inside front cover, pen and black ink: ya me comen ya me comen / por do mas pecado habia - / Guano cotolico / Eating like scraching [sic] is all in the / beginning – from the Spanish [cursive]; inside front cover, right of center, pen and black ink: Spanish / Eating / pava / SpanisH [non-cursive (i.e. hand-printed) text]; page 1, upper right corner, graphite: 1952:19:28 Marks: Front cover, stamp in purple ink: GIFT OF ALBERT F. KELLER; inside front cover, stamp in purple ink: GIFT OF ALBERT F. KELLER; inside back cover, stamp in purple ink: GIFT OF ALBERT F. KELLER translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES