id:			74864
accession number:	2018.1071
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.1071
updated:		2023-05-24 11:06:38.402000

Meditation, 1920. Max Weber (American, 1881–1961). Color linocut on Chinese paper; image: 6.7 x 2.7 cm (2 5/8 x 1 1/16 in.); sheet: 23.8 x 16.5 cm (9 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett 2018.1071

title:				Meditation
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creation date:			1920
creation date earliest:		1920
creation date latest:		1920
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creditline:			Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett
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culture:	20th century
technique:	Color linocut on Chinese paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Relief
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Max Weber (American, 1881–1961)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 6.7 x 2.7 cm (2 5/8 x 1 1/16 in.); Sheet: 23.8 x 16.5 cm (9 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	Chinese paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	In graphite at lower right below image on recto: “MAX WEBER”
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Forum Gallery, New York, NY
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	Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
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	James and Hanna Bartlett, Lincoln, MA
	date: 2001-2018
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 3, 2018
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fun fact:
This print was reproduced as an illustration for a poem published in a 1922 issue of the avant-garde journal <em>Broom</em>.

digital description:
The American artist Max Weber was deeply influenced by non-Western art, including African masks that he viewed at Parisian museums and Japanese prints, which he learned about as a student. Around 1919, he began to combine these interests in a series of relief prints, such as the one seen here. Weber deconstructed the human figure into component parts, emphasizing its simplicity and geometry.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	“Of a Day,” <em>Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts </em>3, no. 1 (August 1922)
	page number: 	ill. p. 29
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	Rubenstein, Daryl R., Max Weber, Alan Hyman, and Alan Maxwell Fern. Max Weber: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Graphic Work. 2013.
	page number: 	p. 189-191, ill. no. 29
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