Old City Hall, built in 1875. Source: Cleveland Memory Project. |
Horace Kelley Mansion. Source: Cleveland Memory Project. |
The school was co-ed from its inception, but the name kept its focus on women until 1892. It was renamed the Cleveland School of Art and moved into the Horace Kelley Mansion on Willson Avenue, now known as East 55th Street. Efforts to merge the school with Adelbert College, now part of Case Western Reserve University, were unsuccessful, and the school remains independent to this day.
Cleveland School of Art. Source: Cleveland Memory Project. |
The School of Art remained in the Kelley Mansion until roughly 1906, when a new building was constructed in University Circle. In 1949, the school was renamed the Cleveland Institute of Art, and in 1956 moved around the corner into the more modern, and far less pretty, building in which it is still housed today.
In 2015, the Cleveland Institute of Art will move back onto Euclid Avenue into the former Model T Assembly plant that CIA acquired in 1981, and which now houses the Joseph McCullough Center for the Visual Arts.
Clara Wolcott Driscoll, c.1904-05. Source: Morse Museum of American Art. |
But in addition to glass cutting, Clara was a designer as well. In 2005, many of her letters came to light, revealing the fact that Tiffany did not design many of the lamps for which he was famous; Clara did.
Tiffany Studios Dragonfly Table Lamp, c. 1900-06. New York Historical Society |
"Cleveland Institute of Art," Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
Cleveland Institute of Art website, http://www.cia.edu/about-us/history
"Designing Women in the Cleveland School of Art," Marianne Berger Woods
"Breaking Tiffany's Glass Ceiling: Clara Wolcott Driscoll (1861-1944)," CIA website, January 1, 2012
"Out of Tiffany’s Shadow, a Woman of Light," New York Times, February 25, 2007
"A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls," New York Historical Society traveling exhibit
"Tiffany Studio Designers," Morse Museum of American Art exhibit
Website of Susan Vreeland, author of Clara and Mr. Tiffany (2012), http://www.svreeland.com/tiff.html
Love these photos! Great article :)
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