Generous Donors: The Print Club of Cleveland
The designation of a gallery specifically for print exhibitions when the Cleveland Museum of Art’s new building opened in 1916 emphasizes the importance of prints at the museum. However, the real impetus for the growth of print collecting came in December 1919 when the museum’s board of trustees established the Department of Prints and appointed Ralph Thrall King, a museum trustee, to act as volunteer curator. King immediately initiated […]
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