Ox Team, Oporto (c. 1926): Art, History and Details

Ox Team, Oporto (c. 1926) 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:

Starting in 1920, Peets was commissioned by the Hispanic Society of America to travel to Portugal and create art reflecting his experience. The artist highlighted the dress and livelihoods of locals, like this person and their oxen. The group likely journeyed to the city from the surrounding countryside, carrying produce and other goods to sell at the market. Peets preferred to create these scenes in oil paint and watercolor, but the society requested that he produce mostly prints, for which he was better known.

Object facts

• Title: Ox Team, Oporto
• Date: c. 1926
• Creator attribution: Orville Houghton Peets (American, 1884–1968)
• Culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Print
• Technique: woodcut
• Dimensions: Plate: 9.9 x 11.9 cm (3 7/8 x 4 11/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Woodcut
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1927.175

A detail from the museum

Peets was a staunch advocate for color etching at a time when some of his American contemporaries viewed it as too commercialized.

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Further reading listed by the museum

• Orville Houghton Peets Entry Card to 1927 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.

View the collection record

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