id: 74865
accession number: 2018.1072
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.1072
updated: 2022-01-04 14:31:29.209000
Portrait, 1919-20. Max Weber (American, 1881-1961). Color woodcut on Chinese paper; image: 10.5 x 4.7 cm (4 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.); sheet: 23.6 x 15.9 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett 2018.1072
title: Portrait
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creation date: 1919-20
creation date earliest: 1919
creation date latest: 1920
current location:
creditline: Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett
copyright:
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: color woodcut on Chinese paper
department: Prints
collection: PR - Woodcut
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne:
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CREATORS
* Max Weber (American, 1881-1961) - artist
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measurements: Image: 10.5 x 4.7 cm (4 1/8 x 1 7/8 in.); Sheet: 23.6 x 15.9 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/4 in.)
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description: Chinese paper
watermarks:
inscriptions:
inscription: In graphite at lower right below image on recto: “MAX WEBER”
translation:
remark:
inscription: In graphite at lower left on recto: “6”
translation:
remark:
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, NY
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James and Hanna Bartlett, Lincoln, MA
date: 2002-2018
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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 short story published in a 1922 issue of the avant-garde journal Broom.
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.
wall description:
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Pilniak, Boris. “At the Doors,” Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts 3, no. 1 (August 1922)
page number: ill. p. 75
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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. 145-147, ill. no. 13
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.1072/2018.1072_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.1072/2018.1072_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.1072/2018.1072_full.tif