Lenore Tawney
in ‘Stories from Storage’, The Cleveland Museum of Art
7 February – 16 May 2021
Lenore Tawney, Self-Portrait, c.1974. Courtesy: © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
Lenore Tawney, Pre-Columbian Feathers with Envelope, 1980. Courtesy: © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
Lenore Tawney, Owl 43, 1975. Courtesy: © Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
Lenore Tawney is included in ‘Stories from Storage’ at The Cleveland Art Museum, on view from 7 February – 16 May 2021.
When the pandemic upended international travel in March 2020, temporarily delaying projects that had been in development for years, the museum reimagined its schedule of exhibitions by drawing on its own resources. ‘Stories from Storage’ offers a thoughtful and focused examination of multiple important themes through seldom seen works of art carefully selected by each of the museum’s nearly two dozen curators. It conveys not a single, linear narrative but multiple stories that complement one another. Each story reveals a unique element within the museum’s encyclopedic collection, representing human creativity across the globe.