The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
The Creaking Chair
1926, printed 1980
(American, 1899–1986)
Paper: 10.2 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)
Gift of Therese and Murray Weiss 2012.78
© Estate of Ralph Steiner
Location: not on view
Description
A single wall advertises theater pieces likely to attract different audiences: The Creaking Chair, a mystery play offering “thrills, shudders, and laughs”; The Half-Caste, a story of love and sacrifice set in Samoa; and The Immortal Hour, a fairy-tale opera. The fragmentary view of construction equipment is a reminder that, like Broadway’s offerings and the posters plastered on walls, the city itself was constantly changing in the 1920s. Growth in population and an overheated economy sparked a construction boom.- Artist; Murray Weiss
- A New York Minute: Street Photography, 1920-1950. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-November 7, 2021).
- {{cite web|title=The Creaking Chair|url=false|author=Ralph Steiner|year=1926, printed 1980|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.78