Art, literature & history
Skyline
1926
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- drypoint
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 11.5 x 13.3 cm (4 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1942.915
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Edwin Kaufman. Skyline. Edwin Kaufman; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Robert Hays Gries. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Skyline — Edwin Kaufman. 1926.
Medium: drypoint. Dimensions: Platemark: 11.5 x 13.3 cm (4 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Edwin Kaufman’s depiction of the skyline of Cleveland allows viewers to imagine the city as it was in 1926. The artist foregrounded the shadowy string of factories and warehouses along the waterfront, relegating the towering hotels and offices to the background. This layering reveals the dual nature of Cleveland during the first half of the 20th century as an urban center founded on industry.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.