Cleveland Art, July/August 2010
- Member Magazine
Articles in this issue: Mabel Hewit; Andrew Borowiec; Omer Fast; Summer Reading; Studios; Film; Performance.
Midwest Modern
Mabel Amelia Hewit (1903–1984) is a Cleveland treasure. Born in Conneaut and raised in Youngstown, she lived the last 50 years of her life in Cleveland, exhibiting in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s May Show, an annual exhibition for regional artists, every year from 1935 to 1957. Hewit was resourcefu...
The Flats
Tom Hinson Curator of Photography
Off West 3rd Street, the Flats 2002. This sweeping vista locates the flat industrial landscape west of the Cuyahoga River while also identifying an area in the foreground that the photographer will investigate in greater detail in other images—with the Cleveland skyl...
Fast Forward
Paola Morsiana Curator of Contemporary Art
The Casting (portions of selected stills) 2007. Omer Fast (Israeli, born Jerusalem, 1972; active Berlin).Four-channel video installation, color, sound; 14 min.(edition 4/6). Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2009.8.1–4 © Omer Fast
Since the early 1960s, film...
High Renaissance Sculpture
Jon L. Seydl The Paul J. and Edith Ingalls Vignos Jr. Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, 1500-1800
Mars, Minerva, Venus, and Cupid early 1500s. Valerio Belli (Italian, c. 1468–1546). Rock crystal intaglio, gilded from reverse, backed with lapis lazuli, mounted in a gold pendant; h. 6 cm. Pur...
A Revolution in Publishing
Amy Crist Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paper Conservation
Printed Book of Hours (Use of Rome) c. 1510. Guillaume Le Rouge (printer), Paris, France. 112 printed folios on parchment, bound. Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2009.276. Displayed is the image of a Dominican nun, folios 84v–85r.
We consumers...
Bedroom Eyes
Constantine Petridis Curator of African Art
Female Face Mask, Gambanda early 1900s. Pende people, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Wood, raffia; h. 25 cm. Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 2008.150. Photo by Franko Khoury, courtesy of Z. S. Strother
This mask in the Central Pende style, one of three major...
A Stunning Buddhist Triptych
Anita Chung Curator of Chinese Art
Shakyamuni Triad: Buddha Attended by Manjushri and Samantabhadra late 13th–early 14th century. China, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368). Triptych of three hanging scrolls: ink and color on silk; each 106.9 x 46.4 cm. Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 2009.342.1–3
The museum’...
An Erotic Talisman
Michael Bennett Curator of Greek and Roman Art
Woman’s Belt Hanger (Zone) c. 725–675 bc. Greece, Geometric period (900–700 bc). Bronze; 32.5 x 14.5 cm. Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust 2006.5
In 2006 the Cleveland Museum of Art acquired an early Greek bronze personal ornament, identified t...
Movable Pieces
Stephen N. Fliegel Curator of Medieval Art
Disk Brooch with Central Boss 7th century. Frankish, late Merovingian. Gilt-silver, copper alloy, glass, almandine; diam. 4.2 cm. Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 2007.163. Filigree disk brooches of this type represent characteristic female adornmen...
A Picture Finds Its Frame
Mark Cole Associate Curator of American Painting and Sculpture
A Frame of Paramount Importance Reginald Marsh’s painting in its new frame (left, front), in its old frame (left, behind), and installed in the galleries (below).
Launched three years ago in tandem with the reinstallation of the museum’...
