The Creation (before 1927): Art, History and Details

The Creation (before 1927) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Kálmán Kubinyi (American, 1906–1973).

The work and its context

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

In this woodcut, Kubinyi’s title and the image itself seem intended to evoke religious themes. Rays of light cascade from a dark sky onto a peaceful nude man, transforming the clouds beyond into a representation of the heavens. The man’s confident posture and calm expression suggest a sense of ease, much like the innocence of Adam and Eve from the Christian Bible, whose story the print’s title directly references. The coastal landscape and bountiful plants around the figure similarly evoke a primordial world.

Object facts

• Title: The Creation
• Date: before 1927
• Creator attribution: Kálmán Kubinyi (American, 1906–1973)
• Culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Print
• Technique: woodcut
• Dimensions: Image: 28.5 x 19.1 cm (11 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
• Collection: PR - Apparatus
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1927.180

A detail from the museum

This woodcut won the third prize in its category at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s 1927 May Show.

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Front Matter.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 14, no. 5 (1927): 91.
• Kálmán Kubinyi 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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