Akron Art Museum

As part of the ongoing celebration of the museum's 90th anniversary the Corbin Gallery features an exhibition of works commissioned over several decades. The museum has a long history of commissioning artworks by local artists including paintings, photographs, print design, jewelry and pottery to commemorate milestones, anniversaries and special events.

A highlight of this exhibition is an abstract painting by Al Bright, the result of a performance commissioned by the museum that kicked off the 90th anniversary on February 5, 2012. The exhibition also includes a print by University of Akron professor and artist Hui-Chu Ying, commissioned to honor the past presidents of the Board of Trustees.

Photographs by Robert Glenn Ketchum, Andrew McAllister and Penny Rakoff are also among the works on view in this intimate exhibition. Several works created for the Masked Balls over the years will be featured, including copper masks by Don Drumm.

The Anniversary Show offers an opportunity for viewers to reflect on the many special moments that make up the museum's timeline through works created exclusively for the Akron Art Museum.Adolph Gottlieb, a first-generation abstract expressionist painter whose art was central to the development of mid-twentieth century painting in America, was among only three of his fellow painters to create both two- and three-dimensional works. Gottlieb's sculptures are little-known and have rarely been seen in the United States. Adolph Gottlieb: Sculptor includes sculptures, maquettes and templates, as well as several major paintings from the 1960s and 1970s that illustrate the important relationship between the artist's drawings and sculptures. Additionally, the connections between Gottlieb and his contemporaries will be examined in an adjacent presentation drawn from the museum's collection of painting and sculpture

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