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Market Place, No. 1, Cleveland, Ohio — Edwin Kaufman

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Written by: Elena LaurentSenior Specialist · Modern & Contemporary Art
Asian Art · Catalogue no. 19098
Edwin Kaufman

Market Place, No. 1, Cleveland, Ohio

StatusReference work · Not for sale
Held byCleveland Museum of Art
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This outdoor market scene depicts neither the characteristic fresh wares of a new day nor the excitement of a busy setting. Refuse litters the foreground, and figures, most with their backs to the viewer, are enveloped by the darkness of the stall. The ambiguous variety of items within and around the stall suggests that it could have housed furniture or secondhand goods. Edwin Kaufman titled this print “No. 1” and therefore may have intended to juxtapose this work against another scene.

Artist / MakerEdwin Kaufman
Date1926
Culture / OriginAmerica, Ohio, Cleveland
Mediumetching
DimensionsPlatemark: 11.6 x 10.1 cm (4 9/16 x 4 in.)
DepartmentPrints
TypePrint
About the Artist

Cleveland-born printmaker and painter Edwin Kaufman was an active member of the Cleveland School during the 1930s. His formal art education began at the Cleveland School of Art, where he learned watercolor and portraiture from Henry Keller. Upon graduation in 1929, he studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich and Henry de Waroquier in Paris after winning the Agnes Gund European Traveling Scholarship. In 1930 he exhibited alongside master printmaker Kálmán Kubinyi at the Council Education Alliance in Cleveland and later… Full biography →

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Image & data: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0 / Public Domain.

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