Muse with Violin Screen

The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Muse with Violin Screen as metalwork (America, Ohio, Cleveland · 1930).

WHY IT’S INTERESTING

Since the early years of the 20th century, the Rose Iron Works, a Cleveland supplier of architectural ornament, has produced distinguished metalwork. The company’s founder, Martin Rose, was born in Austria-Hungary and studied ornamental metalsmithing in Vienna prior to immigrating to Cleveland in 1902.

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A CLOSER LOOK

The museum identifies this metalwork as Steel, brass; silver and gold plating, cotton velveteen and credits Paul Fehér (American, born Hungary, 1898–1990).

The museum's collection notes: Since the early years of the 20th century, the Rose Iron Works, a Cleveland supplier of architectural ornament, has produced distinguished metalwork. The company’s founder, Martin Rose, was born in Austria-Hungary and studied ornamental metalsmithing in Vienna prior to immigrating to Cleveland in 1902. In the 1920s, he hired a talented young Parisian designer, Paul Fehér, to work for the firm. Fehér’s designs, culminating in this massive screen, brought a modern European sensibility to the Rose Iron Works production. With its geometric patterning, highly stylized and abstracted natural forms, and the central figure reminiscent of the celebrat

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