Wolfs – Collection of the late Albert Wasserman
Friday, October 4th
wolfsgallery.com
23645 Mercantile Road, Beachwood, Ohio

BEACHWOOD, OHIO — WOLFS presents the exhibition and sale of the collection of the late Albert Wasserman. The sight of this collection all put together in the gallery is bedazzling with more than 150 works, including oil paintings, watercolors, ceramic works, bronze and glass sculpture.

The Cleveland school is an umbrella under which the many artists of this region have flourished for more than a hundred years.

Certainly the two or three decades following the turn of the Twentieth Century marked a near zenith in production and virtuosity. Marsden Hartley, Abel Warshawsky, William Zorach, William Sommer and Charles Burchfield are already famous names from the period.

Arguments, however, can be made for the 1930s, 1940s and postwar decades as the greatest, but really the story keeps going. The Modernists and the regionalists make their marks while Schreckengost, Horace Potter and the Cleveland ceramicists catch fire. Carl Gaertner and his cronies create paintings that glorify the giant ladles at Republic Steel. Op Art is born right here in the late 1950s and 1960s with Julian Stanczak and the boys blinding the crowds at MoMA. By the 1970s and 1980s, neo-expressionism frees itself from abstraction with artists like Ken Nevadomi, Chris Pekoc and Doug Utter breaking the ice. And the now very famous CIA alum Dana Schutz following in the 1990s and 2000s with brilliantly shocking canvases. The point is, there is, and has been, an incredible arts community centered in Cleveland, which we loosely and very proudly call the Cleveland School.

One of the great followers of the Cleveland School artists was the smart and sincere man who put his money where his heart was; the late, revered and one of a kind Albert Wasserman. Albert, certainly among the earliest collectors of Cleveland School art, assiduously amassed a diverse and sophisticated array of most everything that was bubbling through Cleveland’s creative community for decades.

“Celebrating the Cleveland School” opens Friday, October 4, 6 to 8 pm and is on view through November 30 at Wolfs (Tuesday-Saturday 11 am to 5 pm). The gallery is at 23645 Mercantile Road. For information, www.wolfsgallery.com or 216-721-6945.

Celebrating the Cleveland School
Featuring the remarkable collection of the late Albert Wasserman
WOLFS is proud to announce the sale of this collection opening Friday, October 4th with over 100 Mid-Century works including oil paintings, watercolors, ceramic works, bronze & glass sculpture.
1. Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000), Adam and Eve, 1926
2. Toshiko Takaezu (American, 1922-2011), Double Form Five Spouted Vessel, 1959
3. Kenneth Bates (American, 1904-1994), “Recent Obsessions”, 1945
4. Thelma Frazier Winter (American 1905-1977) Adam and Eve, 1940
5. Marguerite Zorach (American, 1887-1968), Three Nudes in a Wooded Landscape, c. 1912
wolfsgallery.com
23645 Mercantile Road, Beachwood, Ohio | 216-721-6945