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Muse with Violin Screen
1930
Paul Fehér
Paul Fehér (American, born Hungary, 1898–1990)
Decorative Art and Design
Muse with Violin Screen, 1930. Paul Fehér (American, born Hungary, 1898–1990), Rose Iron Works (American, Cleveland, est. 1904). Wrought iron, brass; silver and gold plating, cotton velveteen; overall: 156.2 x 156.2 cm (61 1/2 x 61 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2020.216 © Rose Iron Works Collections, LLC Since the early years of the 20th century, the Rose Iron Works, a Cleveland supplier of architectural ornament, has produced distinguished metalwork. The company’s founder, Martin Rose, was born in Austria-Hungary and studied ornamental metalsmithing in Vienna prior to immigrating to Cleveland in 1902. In the 1920s, he hired a talented young Parisian designer, Paul Fehér, to work for the firm. Fehér’s designs, culminating in this massive screen, brought a modern European sensibility to the Rose Iron Works production. With its geometric patterning, highly stylized and abstracted natural forms, and the central figure reminiscent of the celebrated jazz singer Josephine Baker, this screen reflects the classic motifs of Art Deco design.
- Maker/Artist
- Feher, Paul
- Classification
- Metalwork
- Formatted Medium
- Wrought iron, brass; silver and gold plating, cotton velveteen
- Dimensions
- Overall: 156.2 x 156.2 cm (61 1/2 x 61 1/2 in.)
- Departments
- Decorative Art and Design
- Accession Number
- 2020.216
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Burchfield to Schreckengost: Cleveland Art of the Jazz Age, The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s, <em>Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Work by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 13-June 1, 1930)., <em>Third International Exhibition of Contemporary Industrial Art.</em> The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (October 15-November 10, 1930); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (December 1-28, 1930); The Art Institute of Chicago, IL (January 19-February 15, 1931); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 11-April 5, 1931)., <em>American Art Deco.</em> Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC (April 17-July 26, 1987); The Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL (September 26-November 11, 1987); Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, NE (November 28, 1987-January 17, 1988); Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK (February 7-March 27, 1988); The Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN (April 24-July 10, 1988)., <em>The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis.</em> The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (June 20-November 10, 1991)., <em>Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America. </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 19-July 22, 1996).
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
- Museum Location
- 226A American Modern
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