Walnut Hills park to get a facelift
Adam Schrand
and last updated 2021-01-26 07:04:30-05
CINCINNATI â A redesign of a park in Walnut Hills is in the planning stages, but designers hope to grow the skinny park.
Johnston Park is between Interstate 71 and Eden Park and currently houses the Cincinnati Art Museum s Art Climb. The park lies at the intersection of Walnut Hills, Mount Auburn and downtown Cincinnati.
While most people might pass the park by and not notice it is there, designers are working on ideas to help make this park as unique as the neighborhoods it connects.
Part of the early designs involve growing vegetation over a fence which covers I-71 to help screen the sight and sounds of the highway.
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The Whistling Boy by Frank Duveneck (1848–1919), 1872. Initialed and
dated “FD [in monogram]. Munich. 1872” in monogram at lower left. Oil on canvas, 27 7/8 by 21 1/8 inches.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, gift of the artist; all photographs courtesy of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Although it would be foolish to suggest that the influential and wildly productive Jean-Léon Gérôme is lost to history, it is safe to say that the great academician is perhaps less widely known today than his students Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt. And while it would be equally foolish to suggest that Frank Duveneck is but a footnote to his more recognizable students, such as John Henry Twachtman, the Kentucky-born artist is not the name he was in his day. Reviewing a 1972 show at Manhattan’s Chapellier Galleries, critic John Canaday described Duveneck as “a painter who promised to establish a major position in American art but stopped halfway through his career and settled for a mi