Annual Report (10.1 MB PDF) - Cleveland Museum of Art

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Reliquary Guardian
Figure, 1800s; Gabon,
Kota people; wood and
metalwork; h. 61 cm;
Purchase from the J. H.
Wade Fund 2005.2.
The drawings collection added a fine watercolor landscape from 1888
by the Hudson River school painter Jasper F. Cropsey. Major prints by
Caspar David Friedrich (Footbridge with Cross before Trees at a River, about
1803), Emile Bernard (Breton Scenes, 1896), Max Beckmann (Group Portrait
Eden Bar, 1923), and Pablo Picasso (Faun Revealing a Sleeping Woman,
1936, from the Vollard Suite) were among the additions to the collection.
Of special note were 91 works by Gustave Baumann, a gift from his
daughter, Ann Baumann.
In the areas of Decorative Art and Textiles two exceptional examples
of 18th-century European design were added: a gilded overmantel mirror
from about 1745 attributed to the English designer Matthias Lock and a
pair of French bed hangings made of wool and silk needlework from
1710–20. A group of Toshiko Takaezu ceramics joined the collection of
contemporary decorative art.
During the year the curatorial area saw the departure of one curator
and the arrival of two others. Dr. Stanislaw J. Czuma retired as the
George P. Bickford Curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art after 33