Circus

Name/Title

Circus

Entry/Object ID

2006.7

Artwork Details

Medium

lithograph on paper

Context

Credit Line: Gift of Thomas H. & Virginia J. Horner

Made/Created

Artist

Henry G. Keller

Date made

1932

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Frame Size

Height

20 in

Width

25-1/4 in

Dimension Description

Image Size

Height

12-3/4 in

Width

18-1/8 in

Interpretative Labels

Label

Unable to find a teaching position after returning to Cleveland, Keller worked for eight years at the Morgan Lithograph Company, where he specialized in designing circus posters. As well as being a master of landscapes and figure studies, Henry Keller devoted much of his talents to depictions of animals, particularly in his original etchings and lithographs. During the 1920s and 1930s, a number of Keller’s etchings and lithographs were commissioned by both the Print Club of Cleveland and the Print-A-Month Club.