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Paul Travis @ Metropolitan Galleries
Artist Paul Travis (1891-1975) is best known for the vivid, exotic paintings he produced following an eight-month trip to Africa in the 1920s. An important member of the Cleveland School, Travis has been well-known locally for the better part of the past century. But in the national art market, he has until recently remained... »
“John Szarkowski: Photographs”
John Szarkowski is widely known as a career maker. As director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1962 to 1991, he introduced some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. But long before he accepted that position, he was a photographer — not an amateur, but a... »
Max Beckmann @ Centre Georges Pompidou
Beckmann worked as a nurse in WWI, a little fact that may account for his early fascination with human atrocities. He is said by some to have been an arrogant, unpleasant man who preferred his own company to anyone else's, and often went out in formal attire to sit alone and drink champagne at... »
“Vanished Splendors: A Memoir” By Balthus
Balthus came from an intellectually privileged environment. His father was a Polish art historian, painter and critic whose close friends included Andre Gide and Pierre Bonnard. Two years after his parents separated in 1917, his mother became the lover of poet Rainer Maria Rilke. »
W. Eugene Smith @ Carnegie Museum of Art
"Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs'' a exhibition of 193 master prints that Smith produced between 1955 and 1957, is a fittingly monumental tribute to a body of work that many consider to be Smith's finest. The project began just after Smith resigned as a photographer for Life Magazine. He was already famous.... »
Julian Stanczak @ Reinberger
A recent resurgence of optically oriented abstraction has stirred new interest in Op art. Luckily, its key pioneer, Julian Stanczak, lives right here in Cleveland. A major retrospective of Stanczak’s work, currently on view at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Reinberger Gallery, traces the progression of Stanczak’s art from his early studies through works... »