Hulks (c. 1929): Art, History and Details

Hulks (c. 1929) 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:

Though scenes of American Regionalism became popular in the 1930s, Peets had been creating realist landscapes long before this image. The rickety waterfront structure pictured here could have been around Woodstock, New York, where the artist lived at the time. The building may have been used for storing boats or supplies. Small figures on the lower left side, along with a cropped smoke cloud above, indicate the area’s continued use.

Object facts

• Title: Hulks
• Date: c. 1929
• Creator attribution: Orville Houghton Peets (American, 1884–1968)
• Culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching
• Dimensions: Plate: 12.7 x 15.2 cm (5 x 6 in.)
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1930.155

A detail from the museum

This etching won the first prize in the etching category at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s 1930 May Show and received a gold medal from the Print Makers Society of California.

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Further reading listed by the museum

• Orville Houghton Peets Entry Card to 1930 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.