The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Meditation

Meditation

1920
(American, 1881–1961)
Image: 6.7 x 2.7 cm (2 5/8 x 1 1/16 in.); Sheet: 23.8 x 16.5 cm (9 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This print was reproduced as an illustration for a poem published in a 1922 issue of the avant-garde journal Broom.

Description

The American artist Max Weber was deeply influenced by non-Western art, including African masks that he viewed at Parisian museums and Japanese prints, which he learned about as a student. Around 1919, he began to combine these interests in a series of relief prints, such as the one seen here. Weber deconstructed the human figure into component parts, emphasizing its simplicity and geometry.
  • Forum Gallery, New York, NY
    Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
    2001-2018
    James and Hanna Bartlett, Lincoln, MA
    December 3, 2018
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • “Of a Day,” Broom: An International Magazine of the Arts 3, no. 1 (August 1922) ill. p. 29
    Rubenstein, Daryl R., Max Weber, Alan Hyman, and Alan Maxwell Fern. Max Weber: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Graphic Work. 2013. p. 189-191, ill. no. 29
  • {{cite web|title=Meditation|url=false|author=Max Weber|year=1920|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.1071