ARTneo: the museum of Northeast Ohio art, formerly the Cleveland Artists Foundation, was founded in 1984. It is a non-profit regional art history organization that explicitly exhibits and collects the works of Northeast Ohio artists. ARTneo also publishes research materials about these artists. Artists ARTneo exhibits include Carl Gaertner, Jean and Paul Ulen, Paul Travis, Henry Keller, Julian Stanczak, Viktor Schreckengost, Edris Eckhardt and hundreds others. The permanent collection contains over 3000 pieces of art.
The work primarily consists of artists from the Cleveland School of artists, that is the artists who achieved success after attending the Cleveland School of the Arts, now called the Cleveland Institute of Art.
The Cleveland Institute of Art, previously Cleveland School of Art, is a private college focused on art and design and located in Cleveland, Ohio.
Viktor Schreckengost was an American industrial designer as well as a teacher, sculptor, and artist. His wide-ranging work included noted pottery designs, industrial design, bicycle design and seminal research on radar feedback. Schreckengost's peers included designers Raymond Loewy, Norman Bel Geddes, Eva Zeisel, and Russel Wright.
William Sommer (1867–1949) was an American Modernist painter.
The Canton Museum of Art, founded in 1935, is a broad-based community arts organization designed to encourage and promote the fine arts in Canton, Ohio.
The Cleveland School refers to the flourishing local arts community in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio during the period from 1910 to 1960. It was so named in 1928 by Elrick Davis, a journalist with the Cleveland Press. The Cleveland School was renowned for its watercolor painting, and also included well-known printmakers, sculptors, enamelists, and ceramists.
Frank Nelson Wilcox was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald.
Paul Bough Travis was an American artist of the Cleveland School.
Anna P. Baker was a Canadian visual artist.
Kálmán Mátyás Béla Kubinyi was an influential etcher, engraver and enamelist and a member of the so-called Cleveland School, a number of relatively prominent artists in Northeast Ohio that existed from about 1910 to 1960.
Frederick Carl Gottwald was a traditionalist American painter who was influential in the development of the Cleveland School of art, sometimes called the "dean of Cleveland painters". He taught at the Western Reserve School of Design for Women, and it has been said that he "contributed more than any other person to Cleveland's artistic development".
Hattie Larlham is an American nonprofit organization that creates opportunities for more than 1,800 children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the state of Ohio. Services provided encompass medical, work training and employment, recreational, and residential, catering to both children and adults.
Edris Eckhardt was an American artist associated with the Cleveland School. She is known for her work in Ceramic art and glass sculpture, her work with the Works Projects Administration's (WPA) Federal Arts Project of Cleveland, and her teaching.
John Paul Miller was an American jewellery designer and goldsmith, who also produced films, photographs and paintings. Stephen Harrison, decorative arts curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art, compares Miller's work with that of René Lalique and Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Grace Veronica Kelly was an American painter and art critic. An accomplished watercolorist, she was a member of the Cleveland School of artists, and served as The Plain Dealer's principal art critic from 1926 to 1949.
Mabel Hewit (1903–1984) was an American woodblock print artist, particularly the white-line style of the Provincetown Printers.
Marilyn Szalay (1950-2012) was a contemporary figurative realist painter and draftsperson. Best known for her oversized charcoal drawings of humans and animals, her aesthetic came from journalistic photography and her work relies on strong draftsmanship and powerful compositions with great psychological depth. Hellen Cullinan of the Cleveland Plain Dealer said of Szalay's work, "Powerfully expressive gestural and facial closeup details reflect Szalay's command of behavioral and physical characteristics."
Gloria Rosenthal Plevin is an American painter and print maker living and working in Northeast Ohio. She works in watercolors, pastels, acrylics and monoprints and is best known for her realistic renderings.
Shirley Aley Campbell was a figurative realist painter, called "Cleveland’s own artistic blend of Alice Neel and Lucien Freud".
Elmer William Brown was an African-American artist. He worked in multiple mediums, including painting, printmaking, murals, stage design, ceramics, and enameling.
William "Skinny" Elijah Smith (1913-1997) was an African American artist who was recognized for exploring Black experiences in his art. Friend and poet Langston Hughes once described Smith's work as the "humor and pathos of Negro life captured in line and color."