E18th street Looking South from Plain Dealer Building Cleveland Ohio
1956
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Collection
- Private Collection of James F. Kulhanek
James Charles Kulhanek was an American commercial artist and designer. Václav Ku…
✦ The setting of this painting
This scene looks south down East 18th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. It depicts the actual view from the window of the Plain Dealer Building, where the artist worked. As the backdrop to his daily life, the setting reflects his desire to record everyday scenes just as they were.
✦ Historical context
In 1956, while working as a commercial artist, the painter embodied the spirit of Regionalism that flourished across the American Midwest. Documenting the immediate surroundings of his own life was an approach he held dear in his personal work, firmly rooted in the Regionalist art of the era.
This is a scene of everyday urban life, looking south down East 18th Street in Cleveland.
This oil painting was created in 1956.
The artist is James C. Kulhanek.
He was a painter based in Cleveland, Ohio.
While working as a commercial artist, he embodied the regionalism of the American Midwest.
This work depicts an actual scene viewed from the window of the Plain Dealer Building, where he himself worked.
It embodies his spirit of documenting the everyday scenes of life.
Currently, this work is not held in a public museum.
It is carefully preserved by his son, James F. Kulhanek.
It was directly scanned and digitally published by his family.
Please take another look at the view from the artist's workplace window, which he gazed upon daily.
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