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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One linocut print by Antwoine Washington titled "Foundations of Wonder" with master printer Michael Whitehead. The limited-edition print was commissioned as a part of a collaboration between Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Public Library, and Zygote Press and was sold at the Cleveland Museum of Art's store in association with the 2025 exhibition "Karamu Artists Inc.: Printmaking, Race, and Community."

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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 One photograph of color woodblock printmaker Edna Boies Hopkins (1872-1937) by Cincinnati photographer William B. Poynter (d. 1954). The print was given to the donor by one of Hopkins' family members and depicts the artist appearing to work on one of her most famous prints, The Mountaineer, which she produced while vacationing with her artist husband James in Kentucky's Cumberland region. Also included is Edna Boies Hopkins' signature from a book given to the donor by one of the artist's...

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This small collection comprises material related to "The Gift," by Emma Amos including a publication proposal, clippings, notebook, and handwritten notes describing portrait sessions with sitters.

"The Gift" is 2023.126 in the Cleveland Museum of Art's primary art collection.

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...