Cleveland Art, November/December 2018
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: Renaissance Splendor; Charles Burchfield’s Golden Year; Georgia O’Keeffe; In Her Image; Who RU2 Day?; North of the Border; Fit for a Hun; Sherman and Ruth; Fresh Take; Barbara Robinson
Renaissance Splendor
The Cleveland Museum of Art is the sole venue for an exhibition of major international significance. Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries celebrates the loan of six magnificent wall-sized tapestries and other precious objects from the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence. The...
Fontainebleau (detail), c. 1576. Woven under the direction of Master WF, Brussels. 395.5 x 338 cm. Arazzi n. 473
Charles Burchfield’s Golden Year
Before abstract art took hold throughout the United States, Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) employed color, form, and symbolism to express universal emotions and moods. His preferred subject was the midwestern landscape, especially northeast Ohio. Born in present-day Ashtabula, Burchfield and his fam...
Georgia O’Keeffe
In Her Image
“I seek to focus on our essence, our physicality, our vulnerability, on growing up and growing old—the commonalities that make us human,” Rania Matar reveals. The photographer expresses these shared traits through subtle yet telling portraits that examine the nature of female identity in girlhood, a...
A Girl and Her Room: Siena, Brookline, Massachusetts, 2009. Inkjet print; 71.1 x 106.7 cm
Who RU2 Day?
The question “What do I think of when I think of blackness?” inspired Carl Pope Jr.’s monumental letterpress poster installation, The Bad Air Smelled of Roses, on view in the exhibition Who RU2 Day: Mass Media and the Fine Art Print. A recent acquisition, the work posits replies to this question by...
North of the Border
Inspired by recent political attempts to secure peace in Northeast Asia, the next installation in the Korean gallery (236), opening in January, explores artworks that capture the identity of cities and natural sites north of the Korean demilitarized zone.Although Pyongyang is now better known as the...
Fit for a Hun
Amanda Mikolic Curatorial Assistant, Medieval Art
The Migration period began in ad 375 with the invasion of Europe by the Huns from Central Asia. By ad 443, Attila the Hun (c. ad 406–453) had formed a unified empire across the continent. Unable to defeat the Huns, the declining Roman Empire beg...
Sherman and Ruth
Researchers at the museum archives will soon be able to explore the Sherman and Ruth Ward Lee Family Papers, which document the personal lives of the CMA’s third director and his beloved wife and collaborator. Donated by the Lee family, the collection tells the story not only of Sherman’s perseveran...
Family Papers Among the materials included in the Sherman and Ruth Ward Lee Family Papers are a 1938 photograph of the couple before they married and a letter that Lee wrote to his daughter Katharine while he was working in Japan after WWII.
Fresh Take
In late November, galleries 213–15 will temporarily close to prepare for a new permanent collection installation. Although the focus remains on the arts of the Netherlands, Germany, Central Europe, and France from about 1600 to 1725, the galleries will be completely redesigned in order to explore th...
Barbara Robinson
Barbara Robinson has made it her life’s mission to advocate for the arts. Her service to arts and culture has had a deep and lasting impact, extending well beyond the borders of northeast Ohio. At the Cleveland Museum of Art, Robinson is revered as a longtime friend, honorary trustee, and generous b...
