On May 10, 2003, the Cincinnati Art Museum will celebrate the opening of the Cincinnati Wing: eighteen thousand square feet of handsomely renovated gallery space devoted to the museum s renowned collections of painting, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and metalwork by Cincinnati artists. The museum is the first in the country to reinterpret its American art collections with a regional emphasis, fostering civic pride and drawing attention to the achievements of the city s artists.
In conjunction with the celebration, Ohio University Press is proud to publish "The Cincinnati Wing: The...

In the early 1850s three British expatriates Henry Lindley Fry, his son William Henry Fry, and Benn Pitman settled in Cincinnati and launched one of the most important manifestations of Aesthetic movement furniture in the United States, the Cincinnati art-carved furniture movement. By the early 1870s the Frys began offering private instruction in woodcarving, and Pitman initiated classes at the School of Design (later the Art Academy of Cincinnati).
The majority of the woodcarving students were affluent women seeking suitable artistic pastimes, although some students enrolled to learn a...