As we continue to look at some of the local free museums in Cleveland, I’d like to continue our visit to the Cleveland Museum of Art and focus on some of the local Cleveland connections. The museum has several pieces by the Rose Iron Works, a Cleveland company for the early 1900’s. Rose Iron Works was founded by Austria-Hungarian Martin Rose and used the designs of Hungarian born Paul Feher to create their great masterpieces of iron, brass, silver and gold.
The collection also contains a stain glass window by Louis Tiffany Comfort that was in the Howell Hinds house once located at 2200 Overlook Rd in Cleveland. The house was built in 1898 but demolished in 1930. The window was saved and donated to the museum by Howell’s daughter, Alice.
One of the other Cleveland connections is a painting by Polish born, Julian Stanczak. You may remember Stanczak as the creator of the mural that graces the outside of Winton Manor in downtown Cleveland today. Stanczak lived in Cleveland. He passed in 2017.
