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Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Cruelty of Insects

Cruelty of Insects

1942
(British, 1901–1988)
England
Cranach wove paper
Image: 20.1 x 24.9 cm (7 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.); Sheet: 30.5 x 41.2 cm (12 x 16 1/4 in.)
Gift of Peter N. Leicht and Derrick B. Strobl in honor of their parents Peter Leicht, Mary E. Leicht and Carole L. Strobl 2020.411
Catalogue raisonné: Black and Moorhead 146
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

At the time when Stanley William Hayter made this print, relatively few artists worked in engraving, finding the technique too laborious.

Description

Stanley William Hayter is recognized within the history of printmaking as among the most innovative and experimental practitioners of intaglio techniques. After moving to New York from Paris in 1939, he developed a style influenced by Surrealism which proliferated at the time among New York School painters. This print features invented biomorphic forms inspired by the movement and uses overlapping and intertwining lines to draw the viewer into invented space.
  • ?-2019
    (Helmuth Stone Gallery, Sarasota, FL, sold to Peter Leicht and Derrick Strobl, Columbus, OH)
    2019-2020
    Peter Leicht and Derrick Strobl, Columbus, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    2020-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • "Supporter Story: Peter Leicht and Derrick Strobl.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 34-35. Reproduced: P. 34; Mentioned: P. 35.
  • {{cite web|title=Cruelty of Insects|url=false|author=Stanley William Hayter|year=1942|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.411