id:			74858
accession number:	2018.1069
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.1069
updated:		2022-01-04 14:31:28.719000

Rag Rugs, c. 1913. Ada Gilmore Chaffee (American, 1883-1955). Color woodcut on wove paper; image: 23.5 x 25.8 cm (9 1/4 x 10 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett 2018.1069

title:				Rag Rugs
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creation date:			c. 1913
creation date earliest:		1908
creation date latest:		1918
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creditline:			Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett
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culture:	20th century
technique:	color woodcut on wove paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Woodcut
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Ada Gilmore Chaffee (American, 1883-1955)  - artist
Mrs. Oliver Chaffee
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measurements: Image: 23.5 x 25.8 cm (9 1/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
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	description:	wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	In graphite at center on verso: “ada gilmore”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
	date: November 2006
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	James and Hanna Bartlett, Lincoln, MA
	date: 2006-2018
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 3, 2018
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fun fact: 
Chaffee only made woodcuts for a concentrated period of about six years.

digital description: 
Ada Gilmore Chaffee was one of numerous artists who gathered and worked together in Provincetown, Massachusetts, around 1915. The group exclusively made woodcuts, using the “white line” style seen in this print. Rather than black outlines, Chaffee relied on vivid areas of color to depict a woman in a patterned skirt giving a bowl of milk to a cat.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Flint, Janet A. Provincetown Printers: A Woodcut Tradition. 1983.
	page number: 	p. 28, no. 7
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