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Joseph B. O&#;Sickey, Painter

CLEVELAND ARTS PRIZE FOR VISUAL ARTS

The title conferred on him by Plain Dealer art critic Steve Litt in a article, &#;the dean of painting in northeast Ohio,&#; must have pleased Joseph O'Sickey.

It was more than 30 years since he had burst onto the local (and national) art scene. O&#;Sickey was already in his 40s in that spring of when he had his first one-man show at the Akron Art Museum and was signed by New York&#;s prestigious Seligmann Galleries, founded in   In the decade and a half that followed, he would have seven one-man shows at Seligmann, which had showed the work of such trailblazing figures as Seurat, Vuilliard, Bonnard, Leger and Picasso, and appear in all of the group shows.

O&#;Sickey took the Best Painting award in the May Show at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA).