The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Railing for the Cleveland Play House
c. 1927
maker
(America, Ohio, Cleveland, est. 1904)
81.3 x 208.3 x 32.4 cm (32 x 82 x 12 3/4 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 2020.219
© Rose Iron Works Collections, LLC
Location: Not on view
Description
Rose Iron Works produced traditional styles of wrought iron before venturing into more modern designs. This railing for the Cleveland Play House reflects the mid-18th-century French Rococo taste with a modern adaptation of traditionalist styles, particularly seen in the emblazoned monogram of the owner. Its open, airy composition disguises the incredible technique that was required to achieve such lyrical lines.- c. 1930–2020(Rose Iron Works Collections, LLC, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)2020–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, and Emily Marshall Orr. The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017 Reproduced and mentioned: p. 119, fig. 144, cat. 317, p. 359 ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
- The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (April 7-August 20, 2017); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).
- {{cite web|title=Railing for the Cleveland Play House|url=false|author=Rose Iron Works|year=c. 1927|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.219