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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/wolfs-hosts-retrospective-of-importan
 t-early-20th-century-cleveland-painter-william-sommer/
SUMMARY:WOLFS Hosts Retrospective of Important Early 20th Century Cleveland
  Painter William Sommer
DESCRIPTION:\nFri 5/8 @ 5:30-8PM\nPainter Williams Sommer (1867-1949) worke
 d as a lithographer to make a living\, but by the turn of the 19th-century
  into the 20th\, he was also one of the major modernist artists of the so-
 called “Cleveland School.” He was also a co-founder of Cleveland’s K
 okoon Arts Club\, which promoted modern art in Cleveland held legendary ma
 sked balls. In 1914\, he moved to Summit County where his painting reflect
 ed a highly personal view of the rural landscape.\nWOLFS Gallery in Beachw
 ood is opening a retrospective of Sommer’s work this week\, much of it c
 oming from the 60-year collection of art historian/retired curator Martin 
 Lerner\, who became familiar with Sommer’s work while working at the Cle
 veland Museum of Art. That collection is augmented by works from private c
 ollections and public institutions. The show will be documented by an illu
 strated publication featuring essays by William H. Robinson\, former curat
 or of Modern European Art and head of the Department of European and Ameri
 can Painting and Sculpture at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\nThe show opens
  with a free\, public reception on Friday May 8.\nwolfsgallery/william-som
 mer-a-retrospective\n[mappress mapid="4754"]
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