William H. Robinson

William H. Robinson joined the staff of the Cleveland Museum of Art as curatorial assistant in the department of modern art in 1985, and has served as assistant curator in that department since 1991. Dr. Robinson served as Cleveland curator, in collaboration with Jean Sutherland Boggs and Marie-Laure Bernadac, of the museum's major 75th anniversary exhibition Picasso and Things: The Still Lifes of Picasso (1992). He also curated the Cleveland venue of the 1993 exhibition Degas to Matisse: The Maurice Wertheim Collection from the Harvard University Art Museums.

Exhibitions Dr. Robinson has organized for the museum include Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, in celebration of the centennial of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; Henry Keller, Paintings of a Traveler; Cleveland Art Comes of Age, a look at the first twenty years of the museum's May Show on the occasion of the 70th annual exhibition; The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art; and The Hand of Man: Art of the Industrial Age. He has also organized exhibitions for other galleries in Cleveland and Ohio and written on American modernist and European art, most recently on Charles Burchfield, Henry Keller, Pablo Picasso, and William Sommer. Dr. Robinson began working on the major Cleveland Bicentennial exhibition, Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1976, about two years ago, undertaking primary responsibility for research on the 20th-century art and artists.

Dr. Robinson obtained his Ph.D. in art history at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, writing his doctoral dissertation on "A Cloud in Pants, Adja Yunkers: Icons to Abstract Expressionism." In addition to his duties at the museum, Dr. Robinson serves as adjunct art history faculty at neighboring Case Western Reserve University.

David Steinberg

David Steinberg has held the joint appointment of assistant curator for paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art and assistant professor in the department of art history and art at neighboring Case Western Reserve University since 1992.

Specializing in American paintings, Dr. Steinberg served on the staff team for the reinstallation of the museum's early American galleries in 1995. Dr. Steinberg also curated the Cleveland venue of the 1993 exhibition The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, and will serve in the same capacity for the upcoming traveling exhibition Thomas Eakins: The Rowing Pictures (February 19, 1997 - May 15, 1997). He began working on the major Cleveland Bicentennial exhibition, Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1976, two years ago, undertaking responsibility for research on artists and works from the 19th century.

Dr. Steinberg obtained his B.A. from Yale College, majoring in the history of art, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in the history of art, writing his doctoral dissertation on "The Characters of Charles Willson Peale: Portraiture and Social Identity, 1769-1776." He has published in such periodicals as the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin and the Canadian Art Review, and has written an essay in the forthcoming exhibition catalogue for Creating a Legacy: The Peale Family, 1770-1870, being organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions in Washington, D.C.

For Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Steinberg supervises the M.A. in museum studies for the joint program in art history and museum studies offered by CWRU and the museum. He teaches survey courses on Western art from the Renaissance to the present, 17th-century European art, 18th- and 19th-century American art; and seminars on the body in 18th-century Europe, portraiture in the Western tradition, and museums and the visual arts.

Sabine Kretzschmar

Sabine Kretzschmar joined the staff of the Cleveland Museum of Art as a graduate intern in 1988 and has served as curatorial assistant in the department of prints and drawings since 1989. In that capacity, she has been very active in creating exhibitions, organizing one to two shows each year covering a range of themes and media. Her most recent exhibition, Sets and Series: Five Centuries of Master Prints (1996), drew attention to printmakers' use of graphic arts for series of images, and to the wealth of such complete sets in the Cleveland Museum's print collection.

For the exhibition Transformations in Cleveland Art, 1796-1946, curators William H. Robinson and David Steinberg asked Ms. Kretzschmar to curate the section called Art for Everyone: The Cleveland Print Makers and the WPA, devoted to a key aspect of Cleveland's 20th-century art history, the prints of the 1930s. She also authored the chapter bearing the same title in the exhibition's accompanying book. In addition to this project, she is currently working on an exhibition exploring Dutch and Flemish landscapes from 1450 to 1650, to be held in conjunction with a symposium at the museum in the fall of 1996 called "In Detail: New Studies in Northern Renaissance Art."

Ms. Kretzschmar obtained her M.A. in museum studies and art history at Case Western Reserve University, twice receiving the Stone Fellowship, and her B.A. in art history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.