Waterfront (c. 1923): Art, History and Details

Waterfront (c. 1923) 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:

Based on the English lettering on the warehouse in the middle of this image, Frank Wilcox likely depicted a boat house in his native Cleveland. The composition is evenly balanced, with the rigging of a ship bordering the left and the wooden boards of the dock structure on the right. About half of the image is devoted to a blank sky, which lightens the otherwise dark scene and suggests calm weather for the figures in boats.

Object facts

• Title: Waterfront
• Date: c. 1923
• Creator attribution: Frank Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
• Culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching
• Dimensions: Platemark: 12.6 x 17.7 cm (4 15/16 x 6 15/16 in.); Paper: 21 x 25.4 cm (8 1/4 x 10 in.)
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1924.617

A detail from the museum

Wilcox began teaching at the Cleveland School of Art in 1913 as the head of the landscape department.

Collection credit

Dudley P. Allen Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• W. M. M. “Review of the Exhibition.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 5 (1924): 99.
• Frank Wilcox Entry Card to 1924 May Show. Cleveland Museum of Art May Show Records, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.

View the collection record

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