1. Artist Archives

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The Anthonly Vaiksnoras collection consists of one enamel created for a privately owned poured cement lamp.

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These stencils were probably used by Biehle in the decoration of homes of Cleveland's elite in the late nineteenth century.

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87 views of stone cottages in the Cotswold District, England, taken for Ruggles' 1931 publication "Small Stone Houses of the Cotswold District" [library catalog NA7331.C3 R8 1931].

Scope and Contents note This collection consists of two preparatory drawings for the oil painting The Bee Tree in the museum's collection (2012.119). Recalling an event that took place decades earlier during a family reunion on a farm in Brecksville, Ohio, this painting depicts the felling of a tree to extract a honeycomb in its trunk. The artist-who taught more than 40 years at his alma mater, the Cleveland School (now Institute) of Art-presents himself as the young man straddling the tree in the center of the...

Scope and Contents note The original organization of the collection was haphazard with no discernable order, mostly it was segregated by media type. The collection contains diverse media including papers, books, photographs, slides, negatives, reel to reel film, VHS, models made of clay or wood, and awards and medals. It is arranged by series, then by subseries, thereafter alphabetical or chronological. Spanning nearly 100 years from circa 1910 to circa 2000, the collection predates Miller’s birth and continues on...

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Bowl, 4x11” wheel-thrown with dry point decoration by Harriet Roberts Howell, 1931

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The Henry G. Keller Family Papers includes the papers of Henry G. Keller, Imogene Leslie (Mrs. Henry G.) Keller, and Albert F. Keller dating from 1891-1949. Documents include correspondence, bank statements, clippings, notes, poems and speeches, receipts, insurance papers, photographs, postcards, and miscellany.

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Photograph portraits of Cleveland artists by Henry P. Boynton created for the exhibition "Portraits by Henry P. Boynton: Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen", 1 May - 13 June 1948 to accompany the "Thirtieth Annual Exhibition of Works by Cleveland Artists and Craftsmen [May Show], 5 May - 13 June 1948