id:			380067
accession number:	2020.147
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.147
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:28.472000

Peacocks with Cherry Tree, 1984. Joseph O'Sickey (American, 1918–2013). Pen and black ink and white gouache with bronze metallic paint on white wove paper; image and sheet: 35.5 x 43 cm (14 x 16 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.147

title:				Peacocks with Cherry Tree
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creation date:			1984
creation date earliest:		1984
creation date latest:		1984
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creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
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culture:	America
technique:	pen and black ink and white gouache with bronze metallic paint on white wove paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 21st Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Joseph O'Sickey (American, 1918–2013)  - artist

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measurements: Image and Sheet: 35.5 x 43 cm (14 x 16 15/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed and inscribed, lower right, in black ink: O’Sickey ‘84
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
	opening date:   2022-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH)
	date: after 1984-1994
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	Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1994-2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020-
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fun fact:
Joseph O'Sickey described his process saying that "every mark had to have its room and clarity.”

digital description:
Joseph O'Sickey spent much of his life and career in Northeast Ohio, where he took classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art as a child and later taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art, among other institutions. This watercolor is one of many that the artist made, seeing the medium as well suited for his creative experimentation with color and form. O'Sickey favored vivid tones, such as the bright blue seen here, taking inspiration from European artists such as Henri Matisse.

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