id: 394840 accession number: 2020.261 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.261 updated: 2023-01-12 02:16:31.208000 The Family (In Memory of a Summer in the White Mountains), 1917. Marguerite Zorach (American, 1887–1968). Plain weave silk; wool embroidery; object: 86.4 x 72.4 cm (34 x 28 1/2 in.); framed: 90.2 x 77.5 cm (35 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund 2020.261 title: The Family (In Memory of a Summer in the White Mountains) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1917 creation date earliest: 1917 creation date latest: 1917 current location: creditline: Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: America technique: plain weave silk; wool embroidery department: Textiles collection: Textiles type: Embroidery find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Marguerite Zorach (American, 1887–1968) - artist --- measurements: object: 86.4 x 72.4 cm (34 x 28 1/2 in.); Framed: 90.2 x 77.5 cm (35 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: THE FAMILY / DONE BY MARGUERITE ZORACH IN THE YEAR NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN IN MEMORY OF A SUMMER IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exhibition of Embroidered Tapestries by Marguerite Zorach. Montross Gallery, New York, NY (5-17 February, 1923); traveled to Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, MI (1924).

Thirty-ninth Annual Exhibition. Architectural League of New York, NY. (3 February - 2 March, 1924).

Opening Exhibition: Small Paintings by Leading Contemporary Artists. Our Gallery, New York, NY (6 November - ?, 1926).

Marguerite and William Zorach: The Cubist Years, 1915-1918. Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH (11 January - 15 February, 1987); traveled to The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA (7 March - 19 April, 1987); to Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (26 April - 31 May, 1987); to Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT (12 June - 16 August, 1987).

Edith Halpert: The Downtown Gallery and the Rise of American Art. Jewish Museum, New York, NY (18 October, 2019 - 9 February, 2020).

Omaha Society of Fine Arts, Omaha, NE (unknown date). --- PROVENANCE Collection of the artist, gifted to Nathan and Eda Krass, New York, NY date: 1917? footnotes: citations: Nathan and Eda Krass, New York, NY, gifted to their daughter, Alice Krass Loewenheim and Arnold J. Loewenheim, New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: Alice Krass Loewenheim and Arnold J. Loewenheim, New York, by descent to their daughter Lucy Loewenheim Cohen, Rockville, MD date: footnotes: citations: (James Reinish and Associates, and Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Painstaking and time-consuming to make, Zorach’s embroideries are extremely rare, numbering fewer than 20 examples. digital description: Marguerite Zorach conceived and executed her embroideries as major aesthetic statements at a time when the medium was routinely considered “craft,” as opposed to “fine art,” thereby erasing such distinctions. One of her most acclaimed works, The Family is a celebration of domesticity in harmony with nature, presenting the artist, her husband, and their son with an evergreen tree and four pairs of animals. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Year Book of the Architectural League of New York, and Catalogue of the Thirty-ninth Annual Exhibition. 1924. page number: Reproduced: p.80 url: Lippman, Herbert. "The Architectural League Inhibition." The Arts 5, No.3 (March 1924). page number: Mentioned: p.134; Reproduced: p.137 url: Friedman Hoffman, Marilyn. Marguerite and William Zorach: The Cubist Years, 1915-1918. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1987. page number: Reproduced: Frontispiece url: Shilliam, Nicola J. "Emerging Identity: American Textile Artists in the Early Twentieth Century." In Carlano, Annie, and Nicola J. Shilliam. Early Modern Textiles: From Arts and Crafts to Art Deco. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1993. page number: p. 28-44 url: Burk, Efram L. "Testament to American Modernism: The Prints of William and Marguerite Zorach." Ph.D. dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University, 1998. page number: Mentioned: pp.163, 211 url: Fowler, Cynthia. "Early American Modernism and Craft Production: The Embroideries of Marguerite Zorach." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 2002. page number: Mentioned: pp.112, 142; Reproduced: p.237 url: Cheney, Liana. Essays on Women Artists: "The Most Excellent." Vol.2. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. page number: Mentioned: p.78 url: Fowler, Cynthia. The Modern Embroidery Movement. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p.214; Reproduced: p.215, n.15 url: Shaykin, Rebecca, and Claudia Gould. Edith Halpert: The Downtown Gallery and the Rise of American Art. Jewish Museum, New York; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.31 url: Butler, Eliza. "Review: Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art." Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 6, no.1 (Spring 2020). page number: Mentioned (unpaginated) url: editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/edith-halpert/ Litt, Steven. "Piece from Rose Iron Works highlights latest acquisitions." The Plain Dealer. December 20, 2020. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.D3 url: Kenny, Nancy, "Acquisitions," Art Newspaper, 331 (February 2021).
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