Julian and Barbara Stanczak at the Medici Museum in Warren, Ohio

Julian Stanczak is surely the one painter of recognized international stature that Cleveland has produced.  But it’s an unfortunate fact that work has not been very well shown in town.  The Cleveland Museum of Art has never staged an exhibition of his work, and those exhibitions that have been devoted to him—for example, a conscientious four-part survey of his prints […]

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A SCOUTING ADVENTURE WITH NORMAN ROCKWELL, IN THE MAHONING VALLEY

  Five and a half miles due east from downtown Warren, Ohio, in the heart of Howland Township, sits the Medici Museum, which is completely singular on account of its current exhibition and how it got there. Norman Rockwell: American Scouting Collection includes no less than 65 original Rockwell oil paintings that the revered American artist and illustrator created for […]

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