Unable to afford tuition, Akron-based Gleitsmann befriended faculty and students at the Cleveland School (now Institute) of Art where eventually he was invited to take classes without registering. The White Dam, a fantastical image of an industrial complex that dwarfs two nude workers, earned his greatest success when it was featured in the New York World’s Fair of 1939. Gleitsmann’s unsettling vision of industry contrasts with the favorable attitudes typically adopted by artists of a previous generation.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Particulars
1939 · aged 29
19101995
Accession number
1996.325
In the same room · 228B Cleveland Artists, The Cleveland Museum of Art
