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Exhibition Archive

Bill Brandt, Nude #36, London, 1952, vintage gelatin silver print, 9 x 7 in., Private Collection. © Bill Brandt Archive.

Bill Brandt: Shadows and Substance

| Isroff and Bidwell Galleries

Bill Brandt, England’s greatest twentieth-century photographer, began as a photojournalist and became a poet of light and shadow. Decade by decade, Brandt (1904 – 1983) moved toward evermore radical dualities of black and white, not just in his new photographs but also in his printing of older images.

Julie Cohn, Dare Me, 2006, watercolor, 14 x 11 in.

Creativity Transcends

| The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery

This exhibition features a selection of works by visual artists that have been featured in the United Disability Service's nationally celebrated literary and art magazine, Kaleidoscope.

Paul Cézanne, Luncheon on the Grass, c. 1898. Collection of Dr. and Mrs. W. Gerald Austen.

Family Album: The Karl and Bertl Arnstein Print Collection

| Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

This exhibition features modern European prints assembled by Akron residents Dr. Karl Arnstein (1887-1974), famed designer of airships for the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation, and his wife Bertl Arnstein (1898-1999), a former member of the museum's Board of Trustees.

Philip-Lorca diCorcia, DeBruce, 1999. (c)Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Courtesy Pace/McGill Gallery, New York. Collection of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell.

A Shared Vision: The Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Photography Collection

| Arnstein, Bidwell and Isroff Galleries

Akron residents Laura Ruth and Fred Bidwell's collection of contemporary photography by emerging and mid-career artists was chosen as among the top 100 private collections of 2006 by Art and Antiques magazine.

Conceptual sketch of Tinkerbell costume by artist Inda Blatch-Geib. December 2007

Ticking Crocs and Fairy Dust: Youthful Visions and the Art of Peter Pan

| The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery

The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery’s third show continues to celebrate children’s book illustration by inviting local children to become a part of the display!

American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell

| Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries

As the United States' premier illustrator for six decades, Norman Rockwell created images that both reflected and shaped American popular culture in the twentieth century.

Close to Home: Watercolors by William Sommer and Raphael Gleitsmann

| Judith Bear Isroff Gallery

Two of the most beloved and respected Northeast Ohio artists, William Sommer (1867-1949) and Raphael Gleitsmann (1910-1995), examined life in the region in the 1930s and 1940s.

Masumi Hayashi, Prayer Wheel, Bodhnaht Stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2004, panoramic photo collage, 28 x 65 in. , Collection of the artist's estate, courtesy of M. Gentile Studios

Masumi Hayashi, Meditations: Two Pilgrimages

| Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery

This memorial exhibition of the work of Cleveland photographer Masumi Hayashi features two multi-year projects that explore very different aspects of the artist's Japanese heritage.

Kadir Nelson, Cover from ellington was not a street, oil on paper, 2004

Picturing the African American Experience: Children’s Book Illustrations by Kadir Nelson

| Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery

Illustrator Kadir Nelson addresses the African American cultural experience by creating contemporary folk tales and bringing historic figures to life.

Women at an Exhibition

| Jerry Shaw Video Box

Commissioned by the Akron Art Museum to celebrate its collection, Women at an Exhibition is a collaborative work by composer Randall Woolf and filmmakers Mary Harron and John C. Walsh.

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