Sat 12/4 @ 1PM
The Cleveland Arts Prize was founded in 1960 to honor people and organizations who have contributed to the growth of the area’s arts community. It’s honored more than 350 artists in various fields, as well as people who have given support to the arts.
But what about those artists whose careers pre-dated the establishment of CAP? That’s what its current program “Honoring Our Past Masters” is about. It recognizes artists from the first half of the 20th century. And it’s joined with the Cleveland History Center at the Western Reserve Historical Society to present an exhibit titled Honoring Our Past Masters: The Golden Age of Cleveland Art, 1900–1945.
It features what’s describes as “long unseen masterworks” by noted area artists, borrowed from private collections and curated by CWRU art historian Henry Adams. The artists include August Biehle, Margaret Bourke-White, Charles Burchfield, Clarence Carter, R. Guy Cowan, Clara Deike, Carl Gaertner, Raphael Gleitsmann, Joseph Jicha, Max Kalish, Henry Keller, Roy Lichtenstein, James Harley Minter, Elmer Ladislaw Novotny, Hugo Robus, Charles Sallée, Don Schreckengost, Viktor Schreckengost, Hughie Lee Smith, William Sommer, Rolf Stoll, Paul Travis, Abel Warshawsky and Frank Wilcox.
The show opens with a reception of Saturday December 4 where guests will also be able to visit WRHS’s Hay-McKinney Mansion, decorated for the holidays in the style of a century ago.
At 1:30pm in the Norton Gallery, members of The Cleveland Orchestra and other top area musicians will perform a concert of music by Antonin Dvořák and his Cleveland protegees, Charles Rychlik and J. S. Zamecnik, plus three other composers with ties to Cleveland: native Johann Beck, and Ernest Block and Douglas Moore, who spent time in Cleveland in the first half of the 1920s, Bloch at the Cleveland institute of Music and Moore at the Cleveland Museum of Art (he also conducted the Cleveland Orchestra, which performed some of his music, and acted at the Cleveland Play House).
After the concert, Adams will introduce the exhibit and light refreshments will be served. Tickets are required only for the concert (1:30-2:30pm). The exhibit will be on view through April 4, 2022.
For tickets, go here. The exhibit will be on view through April 4, 2022.