Arnheim (c. 1927): Art, History and Details

Arnheim (c. 1927) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Orville Houghton Peets (American, 1884–1968).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This print is based on the short story “The Domain of Arnheim” by Edgar Allan Poe, in which a man inherits a vast sum of money and builds an earthly paradise accessible by a long boat ride. This scene comes near the end of the story, when the voyager on the boat encounters a plateau covered in honeysuckle and towering trees. As the story discusses the meaning and experience of beauty, it is possible that this image is Peets’s vision of the picturesque.

Object facts

• Title: Arnheim
• Date: c. 1927
• Creator attribution: Orville Houghton Peets (American, 1884–1968)
• Culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Print
• Technique: woodcut
• Dimensions: Plate: 10.5 x 12.2 cm (4 1/8 x 4 13/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Woodcut
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1928.93

A detail from the museum

According to Peets’s entry card to the Cleveland Museum of Art’s 1928 May Show, this image is one part of a pair depicting “The Domain of Arnheim.”

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Further reading listed by the museum

• Orville Houghton Peets Entry Card to 1928 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.