Ohio's Finest

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 November 28, 2025 through

January 16, 2026 On View In the Upstairs Gallery

Front Page:

ALICE SCHILLE

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

E AR L Y MO D E R NISM CHARLES BURCHFIELD Robins and Crocuses, 1923 Wallpaper swatch 30 x 19 inches

LUCIUS KUTCHIN Landscape, 1936 Oil on panel board 20 x 16 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

ALICE SCHILLE Dusk, Oaxaco (Mexican Scene), c. 1930 Watercolor 20 ¾ x 24 ¾ inches

ALICE SCHILLE White Adobe Houses (Sunlight, New Mexico), c. 1926 Watercolor 10 x 12 inches

ALICE SCHILLE Row of Trees c. 1925 Watercolor 17 ½ x 20 ½ inches

Opposite Page: Morning in the Pyrenees, c.1925 Watercolor 17 x 21 inches

EDNA HOPKINS

Saucy Dahlia, c.1915 Color woodcut 7 ¼ x 9 inches

RAY KINSMAN-WATERS

Singing the Blues, 1933 Monotype on paper 12 x 5 inches

EDNA HOPKINS Studios in the Wharf, c. 1915-16 Color woodcut 7 ⅞ x 9 inches

EDNA HOPKINS Sunflowers (Purple Sunflowers), c. 1915-16 Color woodcut 9 x 8 inches

EDNA HOPKINS Yellow Dahlia (Yellow Splendor), c. 1915 Color woodcut 7 ¾ x 9 inches

RE G I O NALIS M

EMERSON BURKHART Evening Shadows, 1957 Oil on canvas 23 x 30 inches

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

ROBERT CHADEAYNE (Brick house with train behind), c. 1920 Oil on board 10 x 14 inches

IMP RE S S I ONI SM

ALICE SCHILLE Woman Sewing, c. 1902 Watercolor 14 ¾ x 17 inches

ALICE SCHILLE Beach Scene, Northern France, c. 1914 Watercolor, 18 x 21 inches

ALICE SCHILLE Beach Scene, c. 1916-18 Watercolor 17 ½ x 20 ½ inches

IL L U S T R AT ION

Opposite Page: Health Ink on paper 8 ½ x 11 inches

JAMES THURBER

Above: Ravel’s Bolero, c. 1930-35 Ink on paper 8 ½ x 11 inches

AFRICAN A M E R I CAN

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

AMINAH ROBINSON Call and Post Paper, get ‘Em While Their Hot Wash, charcoal, thread, mixed media on paper 10 ¾ x 8 inches

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