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1. Artist Archives

 Record Group
Identifier: 1

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Anthony Vaiksnoras collection

 Collection — Box One, Folder: One
Identifier: 1111.114
Scope and Contents note

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

Dates: approximately 1940

Antwoine Washington print "Foundations of Wonder"

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: A2025-010
Scope and Contents

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."

Dates: 2024

August Frederick Biehle, Sr. stencil collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1111.111
Scope and Contents note

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

Dates: about 1874-1918

E.A. Ruggles Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1111.045
Scope and Contents note

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].

Dates: circa 1931

Edna Boies Hopkins portrait

 Item — Folder 1
Identifier: A2025-006
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...
Dates: 1917

Frank Nelson Wilcox drawings

 Collection
Identifier: 1111.135
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...
Dates: 1930

Frederick A. Miller collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1111.125
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...
Dates: circa 1910 to circa 2000

George G. Adomeit collection of Cleveland artists' ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 1111.140
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1905-1965; circa 1900 - circa 1990

Harriet Roberts Howell bowl

 Collection
Identifier: A2024-023
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1931