Mountain Top (c. 1928): Art, History and Details

Mountain Top (c. 1928) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Frank Wilcox (American, 1887–1964).

The work and its context

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

Among his contemporaries, Frank Wilcox was celebrated for his uniquely American style and themes of natural beauty, masculinity, and hard work. This freehand drawing exemplifies all three subjects: a lone man and his hunting dogs rest on a scenic overlook, contemplating the landscape that surrounds them. At a time when more of the North American continent was being settled and farmland turned into factories, this drawing asserted that the old American ideals of freedom and self-sustenance were still attainable.

Object facts

• Title: Mountain Top
• Date: c. 1928
• Creator attribution: Frank Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
• Culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: pencil
• Dimensions: Image: 35.6 x 43.5 cm (14 x 17 1/8 in.)
• Collection: DR - American - Cleveland School
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1928.99

A detail from the museum

A 1931 article from The Bystander magazine described Wilcox as in constant pursuit of ideal beauty, which discouraged him from making abstract art.

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Further reading listed by the museum

• Frank Wilcox 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.