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Cincinnati Magazine Cincinnati Art Museum’s current Frank Duveneck: American Masterretrospective would seem to have little need to dig up anything new about the esteemed Covington native. Born to German-immigrant parents, he and his career flowered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he’s often been called this city’s most important artist. A respected Art Academy of Cincinnati teacher as well, he died in 1919 at age 70. Illustration by Gabriel Ippoliti But, really, the ideas behind this show are anything but complacent. It attempts to shake the cobwebs off of Duven...

Fig. 1. 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 th...

While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to art and culture. This is the first major exhibition for 30 years devoted to Cincinnati’s favourite artistic son. Born in Covington in 1848, Frank Duveneck moved to Munich for his studies in the 1860s. He remained in Europe until 1888, and among the 125 works on show here are his Impressionist-influenced Bavarian landscapes and Venetian harbour scenes. After returning to the U...