id: 284577 accession number: 2020.217 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.217 updated: Mirror, c. 1930. Paul Fehér (American, born Hungary, 1898–1990), Rose Iron Works (American, Cleveland, est. 1904). Wrought iron, brass, silver, gold plating, glass; 182.9 x 114.3 x 6.4 cm (72 x 45 x 2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2020.217 © Rose Iron Works Collections, LLC title: Mirror title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1930 creation date earliest: 1925 creation date latest: 1935 current location: 228B Cleveland Artists creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: © Rose Iron Works Collections, LLC --- culture: technique: Wrought iron, brass, silver, gold plating, glass department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Furniture and woodwork find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Paul Fehér (American, born Hungary, 1898–1990) - designer * Rose Iron Works (American, Cleveland, est. 1904) - maker --- measurements: 182.9 x 114.3 x 6.4 cm (72 x 45 x 2 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s opening date: 2017-04-07T00:00:00 The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (April 7-August 20, 2017); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (June 20-November 10, 1991). --- PROVENANCE (Rose Iron Works Collections, LLC, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: c. 1930–2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: The Rose Iron Works in Cleveland embraced the modern aesthetic of geometric patterning, with highly stylized and abstracted natural forms, in their designs by Hungarian-born Paul Fehér, who came from Paris to work for the company. Despite the stock market crash in 1929, the company continued to produce such designs in the hope that prosperity would soon return. However, this mirror remained unsold in their studio as the Great Depression took hold. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Clair, Jean. The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis, exh. cat. (Montreal, Canada: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1991). page number: Mentioned and reproduced P. 532 url: Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, Emily Marshall Orr, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and Cleveland Museum of Art. The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017 page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 193, fig. 240, cat. 315, p. 359 url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/985455434 --- IMAGES