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Celebrating the Cleveland School through the collection of the late Albert Wasserman, at Wolfs

The Cleveland School is an umbrella under which many artists of this region have flourished for more than a hundred years. Certainly the two or three decades following the turn of the twentieth century marked a near zenith in production and virtuosity. Marsden Hartley, Abel Warshawsky, William Zorach, William Sommer and Charles Burchfield are already famous names from the period. […]

13(3) Fall 2024

Stories from the Golden Age of Cleveland Art

Author: Michael Gill

You don’t have to be around the Northeast Ohio art scene long to hear people bandy about the term Cleveland School. And in one sense, it’s a pretty easily defined group: The Cleveland School artists are those who studied or were on the faculty at the Cleveland School of Art—which of course became the Cleveland Institute of Art—in the first […]

11(1) Spring 2022

The Beauty They Possess: William Sommer’s Children at Wolfs Gallery

Author: Christopher L. Richards Leave a comment

Wolfs Gallery’s new location is a bit off the beaten track in a commercial/industrial park in Beachwood, but it is worth the visit. It was a treat to walk through the expansive space of multiple connected galleries filled with historic and contemporary art from Cleveland and beyond. Currently, their feature exhibition focusses on portraits of children by William Sommer […]

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