Ohio's Finest | 2026

Ohio’s Finest

Foreword

In the early 20th century, Ohio had many noteworthy artists as a function of the excellent museums and art schools tied with one another in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus. Talented artists such as Alice Schille, Edna Hopkins, James Hopkins, Charles Burchfield, Lucius Kutchin, Emerson Burkhart, Robert Chadeayne, and Aminah Robinson benefited from these resources. These opportunities led to many artists receiving strong fundamental training in the visual arts in Ohio. Most of these artists traveled thereafter to New York, Paris, London, Munich, and other international centers of art to receive further education.

They familiarized themselves with the stylistic developments, aesthetic concepts as well as the cultural diversity in these environments. This aesthetic and cultural education led to their development and/or distillation of Impressionism, “Ash Can” Realism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism, and Regionalism from1900 through the1940s. They each engaged with elements of these styles with their own personal ingenuity and philosophy of aesthetics and life to create distinctive,resonate works of art.

Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson’s art is uniquely expressive. It has a narrative quality that has affinities with some Regionalist artists such as Thomas Hart Benton. However it is more personal and culturally emotive than most Regionalists’ works. Her art post dates that of the Regionalists by decades but the narrative element partially ties it to that movement.

We hope that you will join us to enjoy the museum quality works of these talented artists who received national recognition and international recognition in numerous instances.

Timothy C. Keny

Ohio’s Finest

On View through February 27 2026

FRONT COVER:

CHARLES BURCHFIELD

Robins and Crocuses, 1923

Wallpaper swatch

30 x 19 inches

EARLY MODERNISM

Left: Landscape , 1936 Oil on panel board

20 x 16 inches

Opposite Page: Still Life (with Guitar), c. 1936 Oil on canvas

36 ⅝ x 34 ½ inches

LUCIUS KUTCHIN

Untitled Portrait (Woman with Green Scarf)

c. 1930

Monotype with pastel on paper 14 x 10 inches

LUCIUS KUTCHIN

Mexican Boy, c. 1931

Oil and mixed media on textured paper

12 x 10 inches

A Mosque, Istanbul, 1929

Watercolor 5 x 6 inches

The Little Church (The Pyrenees), 1926 Watercolor 20 ¾ x 17 ¾ inches

ALICE SCHILLE

Row of Trees c. 1925

Watercolor

17 ½ x 20 ½ inches

Opposite Page: Morning in the Pyrenee s, c.1925

Watercolor

17 x 21 inches

ALICE SCHILLE

Wee Mischief, c. 1918-20

Oil on canvas

30” x 24”

Laura, 1932

Oil on canvas

46” x 54”

RAY KINSMAN-WATERS

Singing the Blues , 1933

Monotype on paper

12 x 5 inches

9 x 8 inches

EDNA HOPKIN S

Studios in the Wharf , c. 1915-16

Color woodcut

7 ⅞ x 9 inches

REGIONALISM

Evening Shadows, 1957

Oil on canvas

23 x 30 inches

Out of Gas , 1939 Oil on board 11½ x 16 inches

(Brick house with train behind) , c. 1920

Oil on board 10 x 14 inches

GEORGE BELLOWS

OPPOSITE PAGE: In the Subway, 1921, lithograph, 8 ½ x 7 inches

ABOVE: Elsie, Emma, and Marjorie (First Stone), 1921, lithograph, 9 ⅝ x 12 ¼ inches

IMPRESSIONISM

Beach Scene, Northern France, c. 1914 Watercolor

18 x 21 inches

SCHILLE Market Scene, Le Puy, c. 1909

⅝ x 14 ½ inches

Lisieux, France (Ancienne Église, Saint Jacques)

c. 1914

Watercolor

6 ¼ x 5 ¼ inches

ILLUSTRATION

JAMES THURBER

Opposite Page: Health Ink on paper

8 ½ x 11 inches

Above: Ravel’s Bolero, c. 1930-35 Ink on paper

8 ½ x 11 inches

ROBINSON: Symphonic Poem , 2003, Textile,16 ½ x 16 ¾ inches

AMINAH ROBINSON

Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998)

Mixed media

9 ½ x 5 inches

14 x 11 inches