id:			74865
accession number:	2018.1072
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.1072
updated:		2022-10-28 19:56:02.350000

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
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creditline:			Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett
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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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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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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:		

	inscription:	In graphite at lower left on recto: “6”
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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 <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

	Pilniak, Boris. “At the Doors,” <em>Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts </em>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