There may be more than 4,000 works of art on display at the Cleveland Museum of Art, but there are hundreds of pieces kept in storage with stories yet to be told. From Feb. 7-May 16, Stories from Storage will showcase 19 exhibitions of 300 lesser-known pieces pulled together by each of the museum’s 17 curators, director and chief curator as a means to go beyond what’s traditionally shown in the museum’s galleries.
Barbara Tannenbaum, curator of photography, will exhibit 15 works themed around traveling to distant lands. Among them, Fallen Statue at the Ramesseum, Thebes, a roughly 15-inch-by-19-inch mammoth photograph taken by Francis Frith in 1857, exudes a sense of wonder as explorers stumble upon an enormous Egyptian ruin.
“One of the great things about photographs is that they can take you all over the world while you’re sitting in your armchair,” says Tannenbaum. “Think about the wonderful exoticism, how strange it must have seemed to be there in those days before people traveled so widely.” clevelandart.org
This Cleveland Museum of Art Exhibit Shines Light On Untold Stories
Stories from Storage showcases 300 lesser-known pieces of art found in the museum's vaults.
