The Umbrian Valley, Italy (1914): Art, History and Details

The Umbrian Valley, Italy (1914) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Frederick Gottwald (American, born Austria, 1860–1941).

The work and its context

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

Munich-trained Frederick Gottwald taught for more than four decades at the Cleveland School (now Institute) of Art, and was the most influential figure in the city’s burgeoning artistic development. During the years leading up to World War I, he spent summers in Italy, where he created this work.

Object facts

• Title: The Umbrian Valley, Italy
• Date: 1914
• Creator attribution: Frederick Gottwald (American, born Austria, 1860–1941)
• Culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Unframed: 72.8 x 60.4 cm (28 11/16 x 23 3/4 in.)
• Collection: American - Cleveland School
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1915.88

A detail from the museum

This was the first painting by a living artist acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Collection credit

Gift of Mrs. John Huntington

Further reading listed by the museum

• "The Collection of Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2:2 (July, 1915).
• Sackerlotzky, Rotraud, Mary Sayre Haverstock, Nan Grossman. F.C. Gottwald and the Old Bohemians. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Artists Foundation, 1993.
• Witchey, Holly Rarick, with John Vacha. Fine Arts in Cleveland: An Illustrated History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

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.