The Open Window (c. 1914): Art, History and Details

The Open Window (c. 1914) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Edward Alexander Wadsworth (British, 1889–1949).

The work and its context

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

Open Window was inspired by Robert Delaunay's 1911 painting La Ville (The City). Like Delaunay, Wadsworth rendered a view over a city at night, but made the checkered patterning-which unites an array of motifs in the painted scene-the theme of his work. Wadsworth liked the possibilities woodcut gave him to explore complete changes of meaning through different color permutations. There are six versions of Open Window with various color combinations.

Object facts

• Title: The Open Window
• Date: c. 1914
• Creator attribution: Edward Alexander Wadsworth (British, 1889–1949)
• Culture: England, 20th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color woodcut
• Collection: PR - Woodcut
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1987.49

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1987.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (February 1988): 30–71.

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