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  • From Brass to Bronze

    Musician Herb Alpert’s bronze totem sculptures are inspired by the wooden totems of the NW Tlingit tribe. He is also a painter – that is a lot of talent for one person. Yes, it…

  • Smarty

    Kata Legrady began a series of artworks in 2008 where she applied candies like Smarties to different weapons. She thought the candies evoked the Ben-Day technique used by Roy Lichtenstein in his comic book…

  • Collect It Because You Love It

    Dorothy and Herbert Voge were art collectors. They amassed a collection of over 5,000 pieces of contemporary art from a collection begun in the mid-twentieth century. They did on modest salaries from his job…

  • Abstracted Jazz

    Stuart Davis believed that abstract painting could impart more of the meaning of the work than a straight figurative interpretation. This work is about American jazz and giving a viewer a sense of the…

  • Color Woodcuts

    Mabel A. Hewit Cleveland area artist Mabel Hewitt was a very accomplished print maker. Her work was colorful and drew on subjects of everyday life.

  • Common Interests

    James Roy Hopkins was the head of the Fine Art Department at Ohio State from 1923 – 1948. His wife Edna Boies Hopkins was a print maker. .

  • Familiar

    Canadian artist Alex Colville painted in highly detailed images in the pointillist style – unusual because of the slow exacting methods it requires – yet his subjects are so “usual” that his methods of…

  • Veiled Thoughts

    Greek Hellenistic Period , 3rd – 2nd century BCE, The Metropolitan Museum, New York. This small statuette is a remarkable representation of a dancer caught in the midst of a complicated move. It is…

  • Whimsy in Clay

    One of my favorite Cleveland area artists ( and there are many) is Kristen Cliffel. Her ceramic work is so clever and visually stunning that I recognize it on sight. She comes by her…