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    "localId": "173164",
    "label": "Muse with Violin Screen",
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    "id": "173164",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Muse with Violin Screen",
    "description": "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 celebrated jazz singer Josephine Baker, this screen reflects the classic motifs of Art Deco design.",
    "date": "1930",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.216",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q117230229"
    ],
    "creators": [
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        383447
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.216/2020.216_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.216/2020.216_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 156.2 x 156.2 cm (61 1/2 x 61 1/2 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "America, Ohio, Cleveland"
    ],
    "accession": "2020.216"
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    "tec": "Steel, brass; silver and gold plating, cotton velveteen",
    "tombstone": "Muse with Violin Screen, 1930. Paul Fehér (American, born Hungary, 1898–1990), Rose Iron Works (America, Ohio, Cleveland, est. 1904). Steel, brass; silver and gold plating, cotton velveteen; overall: 156.2 x 156.2 cm (61 1/2 x 61 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2020.216",
    "collection": "Furniture",
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "352.1996"
    ],
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "\"The New Industrial Arts of the World,\" <em>Arts and Decoration 34 </em>(January 1931).",
            "page_number": "Reproduced P. 58"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Duncan, Alistair. <em>American Art Deco</em> (New York: Abrams, 1986).",
            "page_number": "Mentioned, P. 99; reproduced, P. 96"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Claire, Jean, ed. <em>The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis, </em>exh. cat. (Montreal, Canada: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1991).",
            "page_number": "Mentioned P. 202, 532; reproduced P. 200"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Robinson, William H., David Steinberg, and Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946: Community and Diversity in Early Modern America.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art: Distributed by Ohio University Press, 1996.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 162; Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 173, fig. 181; Mentioned: p. 249, no. 152"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Robinson, William H., Kathleen McKeever, \"And All That Jazz\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 44 no. 05, May 2004",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 6",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2004-05/page/n5"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Channing, Laurence, \"Before Neo: The May Show\", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 45 no. 07, September 2005",
            "page_number": "Mentioned & reproduced: p. 5",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2005-07/page/4"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Coffin, Sarah, Stephen Harrison, and Emily Marshall Orr<em>. The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: cover, p. 173, fig. 216, mentioned, cat. 316, p. 359",
            "url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/985455434"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Exhibitions 2017.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 57, no. 1 (January/February 2017): 10-11.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 11",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2017-01/page/n5/mode/2up"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fensom, Sarah E. \"All that Jazz.\" <em>Art &amp; Antiques</em> (Apr 2017): 80-87.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 86"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Duncan, Alastair. <em>Art Deco Sculpture.</em> New York, New York: Thames and Hudson, 2016.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 174"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Griswold, William M. “Recent Acquisitions (2013-20) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>Burlington Magazine </em>163, no. 1414 (January 2021): 93-104.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 97, no. 7; mentioned: P. 93"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Discovery through Design.\" <em>American Fine Art Magazine </em>65 (Sept/Oct 2022): 72-73.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 73"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Rose Iron Works: From Art Nouveau to Art Deco.\" <em>The Art Newspaper</em> 33, n. 274 (2025): 86-87.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 87; Reproduced: p. 86."
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Art Deco's 100th Anniversary.\" <em>Incollect Magazine </em>3, i. 4 (Jan/Mar 2025): 90-97.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 95; Reproduced: p. 2, 90, 95"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Da Wit, Ada. \"Rose Iron Works: The Cleveland Company's Journey from Art Nouveau to Art Deco.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 65, no. 2 (2025): 6-7.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 6-7",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM-2025-02"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.216",
    "creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund",
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    "galleryDonorText": "Dr. Robert B. Benyo Trust Gallery",
    "updatedAt": "2026-06-18 21:18:30.207000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.216/2020.216_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 173164,
    "dept": "Decorative Art and Design",
    "coll": "Furniture",
    "med": "Steel, brass; silver and gold plating, cotton velveteen",
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        "May Show"
    ],
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