Rolf Stoll Photograph Collection of Portraits. This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit June 04, 2018 Ingalls Library and Museum Archives 11150 East Blvd. Cleveland, OH, 44106 216-707-2492 [email protected] Rolf Stoll Photograph Collection of Portraits. Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................3 Biographical/Historical note..........................................................................................................................4 Scope and Contents note...............................................................................................................................4 Administrative Information .........................................................................................................................4 Collection Inventory......................................................................................................................................6 Century Box.............................................................................................................................................6 Oversized Folder......................................................................................................................................6 - Page 2 - Rolf Stoll Photograph Collection of Portraits. Summary Information Repository Ingalls Library and Museum Archives Creator Stoll, Rolf, 1892-1978 Title Rolf Stoll Photograph Collection of Portraits. Date circa 1923 - circa 1974 Extent 0.5 Cubic feet [1 century box and one oversize folder] Language English - Page 3 - Rolf Stoll Photograph Collection of Portraits. Biographical/Historical note Rolf Stoll was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1892. He studied at the art academies of Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, and Munich before coming to the United States in 1912. Stoll came to Cleveland in 1923 and taught at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art, now the Cleveland Institute of Art. His artworks included landscapes, murals, and watercolors, but he was prominently a portrait painter. Celebrated for his portraits, he painted many distinguished Clevelanders and taught portrait painting at the scool of art. Between 1925 and 1954, Stoll had 126 artworks accepted to the Cleveland Museum of Art's May Show and won numerous awards. After retiring in in 1957, he and his wife Maria moved to Florida. He passed away in 1978. Scope and Contents note One century box and one oversized folder of photographs of portraits painted by Rolf Stoll. Arranged by age and gender of sitter: adult male, adult female, male child, female child, group and non-portrait paintings. Thereafter arranged by name of sitter with unidentified and unannotated portraits at the end of each section. The collection also contains two polaroids of Rolf Stoll and his wife Maria. Administrative Information Publication Information Ingalls Library and Museum Archives Conditions Governing Access note Open to the public. For more information or to access this collection contact archives staff at [email protected]. Immediate Source of Acquisition note Gift of Mrs. Rolf Stoll [Maria Stoll] Processing Information note - Page 4 - Rolf Stoll Photograph Collection of Portraits. Processed by Peter Buettner, March 2018. - Page 5 - Rolf Stoll Photograph Collection of Portraits. Century Box Collection Inventory Box Century Box circa 1920 - circa 1975 1 Folder Oversized Folder circa 1920 - circa 1955 1 - Page 6 -