Cleveland Art, 2023 Issue 3
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: On China’s Southern Paradise; The Labor of Parisian Laundresses; Exhibition Schedule and Calendar; Fellowship through Art; Welcome Ada de Wit; Transformer Station Joins the CMA; The New CMA Website; History and Hauntings; Richard Avedon’s Centenary; A Fully Endowed Suite
On China’s Southern Paradise
In advance of the opening of China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta, Cleveland Art sat down with Clarissa von Spee, James and Donna Reid Curator of Chinese Art, interim curator of Islamic art, and chair of Asian art, to discuss the exhibition.
Beginning on September 10, the...
The Labor of Parisian Laundresses
Impressionist artist Edgar Degas is best known today for his images of entertainments for the upper-middle class in 19th-century Paris, especially the graceful movements of ballet dancers and the dynamic energy of horse racing. Throughout his entire career, however, Degas remained fascinated with an...
Fund for Exhibitions Supporter Highlights
What inspires your support of the CMA and giving to the Fund for Exhibitions?
Eva: Supporting the Cleveland Museum of Art comes naturally to me and to our entire family. My husband, Lloyd H. Ellis Jr. (known to friends and family as “Sandy”), was a physician who loved art and art history from his col...
Eva Ellis
Eva Ellis and her late husband Lloyd H. Ellis Jr., MD, PhD, have been members and dedicated supporters of the CMA for more than 36 years.
A Fully Endowed Suite
The CMA’s celebrated collection of Asian art, which includes significant works of art from India, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, the Islamic lands, and China, inspires Cleveland and worldwide audiences every day. The collection continues to grow in global importance with the addition o...
Korea Foundation president Kim Ki-hwan (right) with CMA director William M. Griswold and CMA members on the director-led trip to South Korea
Fellowship through Art
This past April, as light- and dark-pink azalea blooms covered Seoul, 19 trustees and Leadership Circle members, accompanied by CMA director and president William M. Griswold and Korea Foundation Curator of Korean Art, Sooa McCormick, enjoyed a 10-day journey immersed in historical and contemporary...
CMA trip participants outside the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art
Welcome, Ada de Wit
This August, the CMA welcomed its new curator of decorative art, Ada de Wit. Previously the curator of works of art and sculpture at the Wallace Collection in London, de Wit now brings her wealth of knowledge to the CMA.
Studying art history in Poland, de Wit initially focused on European painting a...
PHOTO COURTESY OF ADA DE WIT
Transformer Station Joins the CMA
Hingetown’s Transformer Station has officially joined the CMA as a satellite location dedicated to contemporary art. This acquisition came after 10 years of a successful working partnership with art collectors Fred and Laura Bidwell, the founders of Transformer Station. Since 2013, the CMA and the B...
Transformer Station’s original façade was built in 1924. The Bidwells added a modern addition in 2011 but retained the original grandeur of the railway building.
The New CMA Website
Get ready for something new! The Cleveland Museum of Art is about to unveil its updated website, carefully crafted to provide an exceptional digital experience akin to our physical spaces. The CMA’s in-house development team has collaborated with multiple partners, including the open-source front-en...
Never miss a happening at the museum with the website’s “What’s On” event and exhibition listings.
Marc and Elizabeth Wilson
The Cleveland Museum of Art receives generous support from its donors, making it possible for the museum to build on its legacy of excellence, continue its audience-centered approach, and fulfill its mission of creating transformative experiences through art, for the benefit of all the people foreve...
PHOTO COURTESY OF MARC AND ELIZABETH WILSON
History and Hauntings
The CMA, with ghostly sightings and unusual disturbances, has been called one of the most haunted museums in America. Are these events embedded in our history? Sightings are usually associated with spirits who attach themselves to objects or locations due to a strong emotional bond or a tragic demis...
The Asian gallery 1977
Richard Avedon’s Centenary
Celebrated fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon was born just over 100 years ago on May 15, 1923. Museums and galleries around the country, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, are commemorating the centenary of his birth this summer and fall by showing his art. A masterpiece by Avedon...
In the American West: Ronald Fischer, beekeeper, Davis, California, May 9, 1981 1981, printed 1985. Richard Avedon (American, 1923–2004). Gelatin silver print; 143.1 x 114.5 cm. Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2005.143. © The Richard Avedon Foundation