Little Dance (1920): Art, History and Details

Little Dance (1920) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887–1948).

The work and its context

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

With collages of densely interwoven scraps of paper gleaned from daily life, Schwitters produced dynamic compositions in which the interaction of the materials becomes a kind of dance. Notice here the way the color red "dances" among the subdued tones of white, gray, and ochre.

Object facts

• Title: Little Dance
• Date: 1920
• Creator attribution: Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887–1948)
• Culture: Germany, 20th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: collage
• Dimensions: Sheet: 13.1 x 10.4 cm (5 3/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Mounted: 23 x 17 cm (9 1/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - German
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1963.1

Collection credit

Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art

Further reading listed by the museum

• Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
• Henning, Edward B. “In Pursuit of: Content.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 8 (October 1963): 219–239.
• Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969.

View the collection record

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