Cleveland Art, May/June 2016
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: Converging Lines; BIG Photographs; Botanical Prints; Stag at Sharkey's; Jon Pestoni; Ramses II Ostracon; Centennial Loans; Gallery Reinstallation; History of CMA Education; Gallery Game.
Converging Lines
Wall Drawing #797
(detail), 1995. Sol LeWitt (American, 1928–2007). Black, red, yellow, and blue marker on wall; dimensions variable. LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut. © 2016 The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
After Eva Hesse’s death on May 29, 1970, at the age of 34,...
BIG Photographs
EM, Arena, Amsterdam I 2000. Andreas Gursky (German, born 1955). Chromogenic print mounted on Plexiglas in artist’s frame; 276.8 x 207 cm. Private collection, New York 88.2001. © 2016 Andreas Gursky / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New...
Flower Power
Large Flowering Sensitive Plant, from “The Temple of Flora” 1799. Joseph Constantine Stadler (German, active c. 1780–1812) after Philip Reinagle. Color aquatint, stipple, and etching with watercolor added by hand; 76.2 x 61 cm. Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in honor of Mrs. William G. Mather 1...
This Sporting Life
Stag at Sharkey’s 1909. George Bellows (American, 1882–1925). Oil on canvas; 92 x 122.6 cm. Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1133.1922
Sporting images punctuate the career of George Bellows (1882–1925), who is best known for his boxing picture, Stag at Sharkey’s, in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Considere...
Jon Pestoni: Some Years
Underbite 2014. Jon Pestoni (American, born 1969). Oil and mixed media on canvas; 261.6 x 198.1 cm. Collection of Laurie Ziegler. Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Over the past two years, the contemporary art department has organized exhibitions featuring some of the mo...
Ramses II in Mourning
Figured ostracon: Ramses II suckled by a goddess c. 1279–1213 bc. New Kingdom, Dynasty 19, reign of Ramses II. Probably Thebes, Egypt. Painted limestone; 31.2 x 18.2 x 3.3 cm. Given in honor of James N. Sherwin, Trustee 1957–1971 1987.156
An exhibition is often an occasion to look at old objects ane...
A New Beginning
Onement IV 1949. Barnett Newman (American, 1905–1970). Oil and casein on canvas; 84 x 97 cm. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, Fund for Contemporary Art with additional funds from the National Endowment for the Arts Museum Purchase Plan and an anonymous donor, 1969 AMAM 69.35. © 201...
White Tara
White Tara 1600s. Tibet or Mongolia. Silver with gold and inlays of semiprecious stones; h. 17.1 cm. Asia Society, New York, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection 1979.52. Photography by Synthescape, courtesy of Asia Society
In Buddhist traditions of the Himalayas, White Tara is the name g...
Four figures on a Step
Four Figures on a Step c. 1655–60. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617–1682). Oil on canvas; 109.9 x 143.5 cm. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas AP 1984.18
Spending most of his career in his native Seville, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was orphaned at the age of 10. He was apprenticed to the pa...
Royal Banquet
Royal Banquet for Celebration of the 40th Birthday and 30-Year Rule of King Sunjo 1829. Korea, Joseon dynasty. Eight-panel folding screen, ink and colors on silk; 149.5 x 415 cm. Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
On loan from the Leeum, the Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, this eight-panel fo...
Enhancing East Asia
Man Strolling with a Boy Carrying Flowering Branch c. 1810. Kitagawa Fujimaro (Japanese, 1790–1850). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; 180.4 x 48.3 cm. The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.256
Visitors to the north wing over the past few months have no doubt noticed the t...
Then and Now
When the Cleveland Museum of Art opened in 1916, reporter Albert Ryder observed, “There is of necessity something raw and chilly about a new museum, up the stairs of which but few feet have tramped and through the halls of which almost no seekers after pleasure and knowledge have wandered. The atmos...
