The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 16, 2025

Rag Rugs

c. 1913
(American, 1883–1955)
20th century
color woodcut on wove paper
Image: 23.5 x 25.8 cm (9 1/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett 2018.1069
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Chaffee only made woodcuts for a concentrated period of about six years.

Description

Ada Gilmore Chaffee was one of numerous artists who gathered and worked together in Provincetown, Massachusetts, around 1915. The group exclusively made woodcuts, using the “white line” style seen in this print. Rather than black outlines, Chaffee relied on vivid areas of color to depict a woman in a patterned skirt giving a bowl of milk to a cat.
  • November 2006
    Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
    2006-2018
    James and Hanna Bartlett, Lincoln, MA
    December 3, 2018
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Flint, Janet A. Provincetown Printers: A Woodcut Tradition. 1983. p. 28, no. 7
  • {{cite web|title=Rag Rugs|url=false|author=Ada Gilmore Chaffee|year=c. 1913|access-date=16 March 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.1069