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Headdress Frontlet, about 1840–70. Coast? Tsimshian, north British Columbia. Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., T0177. Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor.

Headdress Frontlet, about 1840–70. Coast? Tsimshian, north British Columbia. Thaw Collection, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y., T0177. Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor.

Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection

Sunday, March 7–Sunday, May 30, 2010
Location: The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Exhibition Hall

About The Exhibition

In the Cleveland Museum of Art's first Native American exhibition since the 1970s, experience 135 works of art—each with a fascinating story—when the renowned Thaw Collection from the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York visits Cleveland in the Spring of 2010. The exhibition, which focuses on the 1800s, showcases the extraordinary variety of Native artistic production, moving from the ancient ivories and ingenious modern masks of the Arctic to the dramatic sculptural arts of the Pacific Northwest, the millennia-long tradition of abstract art in the Southwest, the refined basketry of California and the Great Basin, the famous beaded and painted works of the Plains, and the luminous styles of the Eastern Woodlands, including the Great Lakes. A few objects from CMA's own collection are included. Revelations abound. Admission is free.

Sponsors

Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection is organized by the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY. This exhibition has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius. The Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibition and education programs are made possible through the generous support of Dominion Foundation, Medical Mutual, and Giant Eagle. The Cleveland Museum of Art is generously funded by Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. The Ohio Arts Council helped fund this exhibition with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.

 

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