MEMBER BULLETIN Spring 2018
Musk ingum Count y K–12 Student Ar t Exhibition In Partnership with the American Association of University Women On view April 29 through May 19, 2018 This spring, the Zanesville Museum of Art and the American Association of University Women honor the artistic achievements of regional art students and instructors with the 2018 Muskingum County K–12 Student Art Exhibition. Featuring work by Muskingum County students from public and private schools, home-school students, and local art-education organizations, this annual exhibition is one of the ZMA’s most anticipated events. Each year, nearly two hundred two- and three-dimensional works of art are showcased including paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, photographs, and mixed media. Works displayed in this year’s exhibition, which were created in the 2017-2018 academic year, include a vibrant range of subjects and styles. This diversity is a testament to the commitment demonstrated by this county’s art educators who guide their students’ artistic exploration to help them develop a richer and deeper understanding of art. The ZMA is excited to feature a special installation in the museum’s atrium by students from Dresden and Adamsville elementary schools during the K–12 opening. Led by art educator Stephani Shire, the student artists will install a large-scale interpretation of the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux, France, and provide guided tours of the cave painting. The ZMA and AAUW are proud to host Andy Rahe, art instructor at the Columbus Academy, as this year’s exhibition juror. The ZMA, AAUW, the City of Zanesville Mayor’s Office, and The Community Bank will celebrate student artistic achievement by awarding ten outstanding works of art and one outstanding Muskingum County art educator the museum’s Avant-Garde Award. Student award winners will receive $50, and the art educator will receive $1000. Avant-Garde awards are generously sponsored by The Community Bank and will be presented at 2 pm by Zanesville Mayor Jeff Tilton, ZMA executive Director Laine Snyder, and The Community Bank president and CEO Eric Holsky.
EXHIBITION OPENING
Sunday, April 29, 1–3 pm, at the ZMA. Free and open to the public Enjoy complimentary music, drinks, and light bites Avant-Garde Awards begin at 2 pm
73 rd OHIO ANNUAL EXHIBITION On view June 21 through September 8, 2018
In 1942, the Zanesville Art Institute held the first annual May Show of Arts and Crafts for artists in and around Zanesville. More than seven decades later, this annual exhibition continues at the Zanesville Museum of Art as the Ohio Annual Exhibition. This highly anticipated exhibition, the eligibility for which has been expanded statewide, recognizes the extraordinary fine arts and crafts created in the Buckeye state. The museum is delighted to have Erin Shapiro, the Springfield Museum of Art’s curator, Springfield, Ohio as the 2018 juror for this competitive exhibition. The entry deadline for the 73rd Ohio Annual Exhibition is April 20, 2018 and applications are available at zanesvilleart.org.
Exhibition Opening Thursday, June 21 at 5:30 pm Below: A 2015 Ohio Annual Exhibition award winner, Carol Snyder, Fences, porcelain, 2015. Collection of the artist.
ROBERT AND LEONA FELLERS GALLERY Student Exhibitions The ZMA eagerly partners with area schools and organizations to feature the creativity of student artists in the Robert and Leona Fellers Gallery, located on the museum’s third floor. The Fellers were pillars of the Zanesville community, supporting the arts and encouraging art education at the museum. As an artist herself, Leona Fellers exhibited work in the Ohio Annual exhibition, and she would be proud that this gallery celebrates this region‘s aspiring student artists.
April
Zanesville High School Exhibition opening, Saturday, April 21, 2–3 pm.
May
Buckeye Trail Middle School and Buckeye Trail High School Exhibition opening, Saturday, May 12, 2–3 pm.
June−August
Philo High School Exhibition opening, Saturday, June 9, 2–3 pm.
A RUR AL LIFE
Watercolor Paintings from the Cleveland School On view May 5, 2018 This spring, featured in the museum’s works on paper gallery is an eclectic and notable group of watercolors by artists from the Cleveland School. Selected from the ZMA’s permanent holdings and one regional collection, these vibrant and brilliantly executed works by Charles Burchfield (1893–1967), Frank Wilcox (1887–1964), Henry Keller (1869–1949), William Sommer (1867–1949), and Auguste Biehle (1885–1979) among others, demonstrate how artists who have so much in common, from their training, background, and artistic outlook, can be so stylistically diverse. Regarded as exceptional watercolorists, members of the Cleveland School were an intergenerational mix of artists who lived and worked in Northeast Ohio and were active from around 1890 through 1960. The group, named in 1928 by Elrick Davis, a Cleveland Press journalist, was composed of European-trained artists instrumental in founding prominent Cleveland institutions including the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Society of Artists, and Cleveland's annual May Show. “Watercolor painting is the special pride of Cleveland,” commented Grace Kelly in the May 1942 edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It is “the medium through which its artists are known to connoisseurs throughout the country.” This was due in part to the founding of the Cleveland Society of Watercolor Painters in 1892, which elevated this media in the eyes of artists and collectors. Previously thought subordinate to oil painting, watercolor earned a newfound appreciation as a technically challenging and uniquely delicate media. Cleveland School artists preferred the transparent watercolor technique, using layers of wash to capture Northern Ohio’s rare scenic beauty.
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Left: Detail, Frank Wilcox, untitled, 1952, watercolor on board. Purchase, Ayers Fund, 2012.049.003.
THE COLLECTION Home to over eight-thousand works of art, the Zanesville Museum of Art’s permanent collection has a number of unique and uncommon pieces donated to us over eighty years, including a fascinating commemorative wreath created from human hair. It was commonplace and fashionable in England during the Victorian era and in America after the Civil War and during the Reconstruction eras for middleclass women to craft or to have crafted by artisans delicate and elaborate works of art from the hair of loved ones. These became so fashionable in fact, that a guide was published in 1867. The author of Self-Instructor and the Art of Hair Work states, “The necessity for a comprehensive work, giving a full and detailed explanation of the Art of manufacturing Hair Work…has been so frequently urged upon the attention of the author, that, in compliance with an almost universal demand, he has concluded to publish a book which will clearly illustrate the Art of making Hair Jewelry and Hair Work of every description”. Commemorative lockets, bracelets, rings, watches, and pendants were worn by both men and woman in reverence or remembrance of their beloved.
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By the mid- to late-nineteenth century, two types of elaborate hair wreaths also became fashionable household decorations. The memorial wreath was usually fashioned from the hair of a deceased loved one while the commemorative wreath, like the one housed in the ZMA’s collection, was crafted from the hair of several people. While wreath styles varied, the most popular type resembled ornamental floral arrangements. These elaborate decorations, which were prominently displayed in the home, were often created using intricate patterns found in popular magazines or books, including the Self-Instructor and the Art of Hair Work, which instructed novices and skilled craftswoman alike how to shape locks of hair in increasingly intricate and dynamic compositions. Dozens of floral and decorative design patterns instructed woman how to create leaves, pine cones, nests, birds, grasses, braids, and laces using a variety of hair colors, which added depth and variation to the overall design. In the ZMA’s example, slight tonal differences in hair color distinguish each floral element. The ZMA’s commemorative hair wreath is likely the result of a skilled artisan based on the design’s sophistication, which incorporates complex hair work configurations. Delicate and intricate work, similar to tatting or weaving lace, hair strands were woven, braided, and wrapped around thin wires or tubes that allowed the hair to be shaped into desired forms. Primarily monotone in color, wreaths were further enhanced with colorful ribbons, beads, and crystals to add shimmering effects. Over the years, as family members moved or passed away, succeeding generations added new woven and braided designs to commemorative wreaths like the ZMA’s unique example.
Left: Unknown artist, Commemorative Hair Wreath, 19th century, hair and wire. Gift of Mrs. K.V. Moulton, 1965. 11260 Above: detail showing the artist’s technique and the use of multiple hair types.
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IMPAC T IN MEMORIAM
In Memory of Mrs. Cindy Morehead Dr. and Mrs. James S. Cowin Mrs. Maryanna Fenton
In Memory of Mrs. B.J. Atkinson Dr. and Mrs. James S. Cowin Mrs. Maryanna Fenton Mr. and Mrs. Victor Szemetylo
MONETARY DONATIONS New, R enewed, and Upgraded M useum M embers New and R enewed M embers of The M aster piece S ociet y The B eaux Ar ts Club K roger Cares Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Paul McClelland The Community Bank Harold Gottlieb Residual Trust A AmazonSmile
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In Memory of Mr. Dan Towning DONATIONS IN KIND
The ZMA M useum Store Committee The B eaux Ar ts Club ZMA Volunteers Mr. Edward Council Mr. Carl Eriksson Mr. Doug Swift Estate of Mr. Robert F. Rauch Mr. Jeff Gorsuch, Mrs. Janet Kozak, and the Gorsuch Family Zane Grey Elementary School Educators and Administrators
RECENT ART ON LOAN TO THE ZMA Mr. Jeff Gorsuch, Mrs. Janet Kozak, and the Gorsuch Family Mr. Carl Eriksson
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CLOSER LOOK In November 2017, the museum contracted with Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA) in Cleveland, Ohio to restore two remarkable paintings housed in the ZMA’s permanent collection that were in need of conservation. ICA, the nation’s first non-profit regional arts conservation center founded in 1952 by the directors of six major Midwestern museums, and its senior paintings conservator, Andrea Chevalier, pictured on the cover and to the left, examined both works and drafted a comprehensive plan to clean the works’ fragile surfaces, further assess the stability of the paintings, and then provide additional restoration to the canvas, oil paint, and frames of Epic of the Sea by an unknown nineteenth-century French artist and Harbor Scene by the seventeenth-century Italian artist Salvatore Rosa. These paintings were donated to the museum around 1950 and because of condition issues have remained, for the most part, in storage. Chevalier recently provided a status report on her progress, which included the remarkable image, pictured bottom left, of the Rosa midway through its surface cleaning. The left side of the image, is brown as a result of the accumulation of dirt and aged varnish, while the right side is positively transformed revealing a light, diaphanous color palette. Both the Harbor Scene and Epic of the Sea are scheduled to return to the ZMA this spring and will be on view in the newly reinstalled Shirley Gorsuch Gallery. Front cover and top left: Andrea Chevalier, painting conservator at Intermuseum Conservation Association working on a painting from the ZMA’s permanent collection Epic of the Sea, circa 1819, oil on canvas, gift by an anonymous donor, 10656. Bottom left: A dramatic before and after image demonstrating conservation’s impact on the museum’s Salvatore Rosa, Harbor Scene, 17th century, oil on canvas, gift of Mrs. Walter Black, 10272.