Stanislaw Czuma
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
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Stanislaw J. Czuma received his B.A. and M.A. in Western Art from the Jagiellon University, Cracow. He studied abroad in India at the Banaras Hindu and Calcutta Universities, and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He came to the United States and earned his Ph.D. in Oriental Art from the University of Michigan. Czuma worked as Curator of Oriental Art at the Brooklyn Art Museum before coming to Cleveland in 1973. From 1973 to 2000 he taught as a professor at the Case Western Reserve University.
During his more than thirty years at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Czuma curated numerous exhibitions including “Indian Art from the George P. Bickford Collection,” “Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India,” and “Dance of the Gods: Indian Art Inspired by Music.” Along with catalogs for many of the exhibitions, he wrote numerous scholarly articles published in the museum’s “Bulletin.” Additionally, Czuma was the only American to serve as advisor on the Polish led Committee for the Restoration of Angkor temples in 1989. Czuma retired in 2005 and in 2017, Marquis Who’s Who presented Czuma with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the field of art history.
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