The Cleveland Art Association,(f. 1915), was a group of philanthropists and patrons of the Cleveland, Ohio, art world. The group was well known for organizing the first May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art and for its vigorous support of the Cleveland Institute of Art. The Cleveland Art Association often worked with the Cleveland Museum of Art and other groups of artists to publicize and support art in the community.
The Cleveland Art Association Records, 1932-1945, consist of, in order of arrangement, correspondence from the Cleveland Trust Company regarding the administration of scholarship funds and investments, correspondence between donor Newell C. Bolton and the Cleveland Art Association regarding endowed scholarship funds, and financial non-correspondence.
This collection will be of interest to scholars of the art world in early twentieth century Cleveland, Ohio, and philanthropic organizations in general.
The collection is arranged by document type, then by correspondent, and then chronologically within three folders.
Processed by James M. Lewis in 1988.
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[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4257 Cleveland Art Association Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Provenance unrecorded.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.