The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 23, 2024

The Robe

The Robe

2010
(American, b. 1983)
America, 21st century
color woodcut and drypoint
Sheet: 56.6 x 38 cm (22 5/16 x 14 15/16 in.); Platemark: 45.6 x 30.5 cm (17 15/16 x 12 in.)
Gift of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer in memory of Robert Lundie Shearer 2011.405
Location: not on view

Description

In 2010 Ellen Heck, a printmaker working in California’s Bay Area, made a suite of prints entitled + A Century, inspired by Cassatt’s famous set of 10 color prints. Heck’s 21st-century women are portrayed in private moments, dressing, reading, knitting, spending time with their children and grand-children, and working at laptop computers. With its focus on a full-length, standing figure rendered in a palette of pale pink, green, and beige, The Robe is reminiscent of Cassatt’s The Fitting.
  • [Armstrong Fine Art, Chicago]; Elizabeth Shearer
  • Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
  • {{cite web|title=The Robe|url=false|author=Ellen Heck|year=2010|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2011.405