The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 13, 2026

A horizontally oriented oil painting with visible, textured brushstrokes depicts several wooden boats clustered on a pier. Most are draped in heavy gray and brown cloth covers. In the foreground, a white boat with a dark red hull sits beside one with a dark green hull. Fishing nets hang from tall poles against a dark sea and gray sky. Muted earth tones define this somber, maritime composition.

Abandoned Pleasures

1953

Edmund Brucker

(American, 1912–1999)
America, Ohio, Cleveland
oil on compo board
Unframed: 47 x 97.2 cm (18 1/2 x 38 1/4 in.)
Cleveland Traveling Exhibitions Fund 1954.281
Location: Not on view
  • Edmund Brucker Entry Card to 1954 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
  • The May Show: 36th Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-June 13, 1954).
  • {{cite web|title=Abandoned Pleasures |url=false|author=Edmund Brucker|year=1953|access-date=13 September 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1954.281