Mr. Wang Yansheng王燕生, Cultural Counselor, and Mr.

John Bonebrake was a beloved member of the museum’s affiliate group, The Print Club of Cleveland for 40 years. Through his Print Club experience, he had amassed more than 1,000 prints, which he both gifted and bequeathed to the museum upon his death in April 2011.

By Anita Chung Curator of Chinese Art

The Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove Undated, c. 1943 Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper 64.7 × 75 cm Nanjing Museum

The life and work of Fu Baoshi was shaped by heritage, philosophy and a desire to nurture creativity informed by his cultural experience.

Gleaned from a prized and relatively unknown group of objects in the museum’s wide-ranging Asian collection, this exhibition of Kalighat paintings will allow visitors an opportunity to view these rarely displayed Indian paintings, considered to be the beginning of modernism in Indian art.

View this video perspective from guest curator Deepak Sarma that reviews a painting of the goddess Kali, the namesake for the city Kalighat (Calcutta).

We recently talked to Thomasine Clark of our Education department about how parents might use the museum’s special exhibition as a great adventure for learning and bonding with their children. She helps plan our family day activities to ensure that there is fun for all ages, so who better to share thoughts on how children might enjoy the current exhibition at an age-appropriate level?

By Jim Engelmann
Exhibition Designer

Designing an exhibition is all about the stuff – the cases, the walls, the graphics, the labels, the lights, and most of all the works of art – the things that people come here to look at. What are they? How many? How big? When will they be here? Are they fragile? Do these belong together or apart? … on and on and on.

By Hajnal Eppley Museum Ambassadors/ Lifelong Learning Center Assistant

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Dr. Linda Spurlock discusses the findings