July (1893): Art, History and Details

July (1893) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Otto H. Bacher (American, 1856–1909).

The work and its context

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

Cleveland-born and New York City-based Otto Bacher painted July during a visit to East Hampton, Long Island, NY. The sun-dazzled composition features a nude model seated upon a lawn. Her name was not recorded.

Object facts

• Title: July
• Date: 1893
• Creator attribution: Otto H. Bacher (American, 1856–1909)
• Culture: United States, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Unframed: 90 x 57.5 cm (35 7/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
• Collection: American - Cleveland School
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1966.387

A detail from the museum

Several decades ago, a man stole a truck transporting this painting, but he was apprehended by police approximately seven minutes later.

Collection credit

Gift of Will Low Bacher

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, Henry S. "Annual Report for 1966: Paintings." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (June 1967) pp. 168-170.
• Dijkstra, Bram. Naked: The Nude in America. New York: Rizzoli, 2010.
• DeKay,Charles. "The Quarter's Art." The Quarterly Illustrator 2, no. 6 (April, May, June 1894) p. 206-207.

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.