Cleveland Art, 2023 Issue 1
- Member Magazine
In this issue of the members magazine: Family Drama; Nineteenth-Century French Drawings; Late Medieval Alabaster Sculpture; Egyptomania; Exhibitions; Meet the Staff; Scaling up Performing Arts; From Long Shot to Close-Up; Two Figures at a Door (The Proposal?); The Library’s New Role
Family Drama
Vanity is timeless, but in Renaissance England, painted portraits had not yet achieved the status they would attain of luxury commissions ubiquitous among the wealthy. Instead, tapestry series with glittering gold threads and monumental scale impressed houseguests, and silver objects operated like c...
LEFT: Henry VIII (detail), c. 1509. Attributed to Meynnart Wewyck (probably Netherlandish, active England c. 1502–25). Oil on panel; 38.1 x 24.8 cm. Denver Art Museum, Gift of the Berger Collection Educational Trust, 2021.29. RIGHT: Henry VIII (detail), c. 1540. Workshop of Hans Holbein the Younger. (German, active England and Switzerland, 1497/98–1543). Oil on panel; 239 x 134.5 cm. National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, Purchased by the Walker Art Gallery in 1945, WAG 1350
Nineteenth-Century French Drawings
Now on view in the James and Hanna Bartlett Prints and Drawings Gallery, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art celebrates the institution’s holdings in this field, which are widely considered among the best in not only the United States but also the world. Beginning wel...
Late Medieval Alabaster Sculpture
When the young Würzburg sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider (German, c. 1460–1531) was commissioned around 1495 to make figures in alabaster for the Benedictine monastery of Saint Peter in Erfurt, he did not have to look far to find a suitable quarry. The small town of Ickelheim, about 40 miles southeas...
Egyptomania
A central component of curating the exhibition Egyptomania: Fashion’s Conflicted Obsession was to uncover the nuances of fashion’s appropriation of ancient Egyptian culture, a topic hotly debated in academia and the mainstream. That process brought me to new findings I had never considered. Cultural...
The Library’s New Role
With the 2018 publication of For the Benefit of All: The CMA’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Plan, Cleveland Museum of Art leadership sought to underscore the museum’s comprehensive commitment to diversity and articulate institutional success strategies to embed this commitment within every...
Meet the Staff
Laura Gaylord Resch is the Cleveland Museum of Art’s assistant preventive conservator. Day to day, she manages the safety and preservation of thousands of art objects. Her work requires her to liaise between museum departments to care for the CMA’s artworks, which helps maintain the accessibility of...
Photo: McKinley Wiley
From Long Shot to Close-Up
With more than 8,200 photographic prints, books, and videos, the photography department is the museum’s second-largest collection area, surpassed only by prints. This is surprising, given that the first photograph did not enter the art collection until 1935, the first purchase of a photograph did no...
Two Figures at a Door (The Proposal?)
The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired one of James Tissot’s finest paintings through a partial gift from renowned Cleveland antiques experts Ralph and Terry Kovel and their family. Born and trained in France, Tissot was an artist who straddled the worlds of French Impressionism and British Victor...