The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Ashtray
c. 1920–29
Diameter: 1.9 x 8.6 cm (3/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
Educational Purchase Fund 1930.77
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Animals fascinated early modern designers interested in kinetic form and patterns of decoration.Description
In the early 1900s, bending and cutting sheet metal to produce dynamic shapes was one of the most common techniques used to teach natural form in design schools in Vienna. From this method evolved the commercial production of small polished or enameled figures of popular animals from the circus or farm—including giraffes, foxes, and dogs—exaggerated in their modernist forms.- 1930(Exhibition of Austrian Arts and Crafts, Vienna, Austria, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1930-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.77