Michael Cunningham
Scope and Contents note
No defined schema was evident for the files when they entered the archives collection. Where discernable, files were separated by corresponding curator and processed as a subseries. A subseries of files containing correspondence between multiple curators and a single person or institution was created. Documents from this subseries deemed important were pulled and given their own folder. Internal correspondence is chiefly separated by department, but also by Asian Department curator. This series is arranged alphabetically thereafter chronologically, with the exception of the Stephen Little and J. Keith Wilson subseries which are arranged chronologically by year thereafter alphabetically.
Dates
- Majority of material found within Bulk, 1975-2003
- 1952-2005
Conditions Governing Access note
Subject to review by archives staff. For more information or to access this collection contact archives staff at archives2@clevelandart.org.
Biographical/Historical note
A graduate of Tufts University, Michael R. Cunningham received the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Far Eastern Art at the University of Chicago. Before completing his doctoral degree in 1978, he spent two years at Kyoto University, in the Department of Art and Aesthetics.
From 1977 to 1979, Dr. Cunningham was Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities, teaching in the Department of Art, Case Western Reserve University, and serving as Research Fellow in Japanese Art in the Department of Oriental Art of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He was adjunct associate curator of Japanese Art at the Museum and assistant professor at the University, a joint appointment supported by a grant from the Japan Foundation, from 1979 to 1982.
Cunningham was named Curator of Japanese Art in 1983 and served as acting head of the Department of Oriental Art until being appointed Chief Curator in 1987. In 1996 Cunningham became Curator of Japanese and Korean Art. Due to budget constraints the museum reduced staffing by 10% and eliminated Cunningham's position in 2003.
Extent
From the Collection: 47.5 Cubic feet (95 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Chou, Ju-hsi (Person)
- From the Collection: Cunningham, Michael R. (Person)
- From the Collection: Czuma, Stanislaw J. (1935-) (Person)
- From the Collection: Ho, Wai-kam (1925-2004) (Person)
- From the Collection: Lee, Sherman E. (1918-2008) (Person)
- From the Collection: Lerner, Martin (Person)
- From the Collection: Pearlstein, Elinor L. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wilson, J. Keith (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives Repository