Market Place, No. 1, Cleveland, Ohio (1926): Art, History and Details

Market Place, No. 1, Cleveland, Ohio (1926) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906–1939).

The work and its context

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

This outdoor market scene depicts neither the characteristic fresh wares of a new day nor the excitement of a busy setting. Refuse litters the foreground, and figures, most with their backs to the viewer, are enveloped by the darkness of the stall. The ambiguous variety of items within and around the stall suggests that it could have housed furniture or secondhand goods. Edwin Kaufman titled this print “No. 1” and therefore may have intended to juxtapose this work against another scene.

Object facts

• Title: Market Place, No. 1, Cleveland, Ohio
• Date: 1926
• Creator attribution: Edwin Kaufman (American, 1906–1939)
• Culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching
• Dimensions: Platemark: 11.6 x 10.1 cm (4 9/16 x 4 in.)
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1942.903

A detail from the museum

The last remaining historic marketplace in Cleveland is the West Side Market, which opened in 1912.

Collection credit

Gift of Robert Hays Gries

Further reading listed by the museum

• Edwin Kaufman Entry Card to 1927 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.