Cleveland Art, January/February 2014
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: Remaking Tradition; La Vie Conservation; Walking Tour; Opening Celebration; Film; Performance; Education; Van Gogh Opening Lecture
A Life Before La Vie
In 1945 the Cleveland Museum of Art acquired Picasso’s Blue Period masterpiece La Vie. Initial radiographs produced by X-rays in 1978 revealed an earlier work hidden beneath the surface painting. At the time, art historian Marilyn McCully deciphered the painting below as Last Moments, an early large...
A Walking Tour
Start in the atrium, facing the 1916 building. Straight ahead through the glass doors on level one are the prints and drawings galleries just inside the doors and, farther on, the collections of ancient, African, Byzantine, medieval, and Renaissance art. (From here one can walk up the stairs or take...
