Kokoon Arts Club

The Kokoon Arts Club, sometimes spelled Kokoon Arts Klub, was a Bohemian artists group founded in 1911 by Carl Moellman, William Sommer and Elmer Brubeck to promote Modernism in Cleveland, Ohio.[1][2] Moellman had been a member of New York City's Kit Kat Club, which served as inspiration for Kokoon. From 1913 to 1946 Kokoon's annual Bal-Masque balls scandalized Cleveland with risqué activities, provocative art, and nudity, and was sometimes humorously referred to as the "Cocaine Club". A fierce rivalry stood between Kokoon and the more conservative Cleveland Society of Artists.

August Biehle, Kokoon Club Ball, Private Collection

See also

References
  1. Witchey, Holly (1993), "The Battle of the Early Moderns: The Kokoon Club and the Cleveland Society of Artists" (PDF), in Richert, Sandy (ed.), Cleveland as a Center of Regional American Art, Cleveland: Cleveland Artists Foundation, pp. 37–47, ISBN 0-9639562-3-X, retrieved 2011-01-02
  2. Grabowski, John J.; David D. Van Tassel (1997-07-23). "Kokoon Arts Club". Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. Retrieved 2011-01-02.


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