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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
Found in:
Cleveland Museum of Art Archives
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
Found in:
Cleveland Museum of Art Archives
Mabel Hewit scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: 1111.118
Scope and Contents note
This collection comprises of two bound scrapbooks. The scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings, exhibition catalogs, correspondence, and awards. The scrapbooks were compiled sometime after 1960 and each one spans roughly thirty years. Both are arranged in a rough chronological order. One is committed to the documentation of Mabel Hewit's interaction with the May Show and covers from 1936 to 1961. The second scrapbook has a broader scope, comprising of materials not related to the May Show....
Dates:
1933-1963
Found in:
Cleveland Museum of Art Archives
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