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06/22/2017
Saturday memorial set for former Plain Dealer art critic Helen Cullinan at Cleveland Museum of Art
Helen Cullinan, the art critic of The Plain Dealer from 1960 to 1995, is remembered as a cultural advocate who championed the rise of the city's contemporary art gallery scene in Little Italy and Tremont.
Cullinan chronicled everything from exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art in the era of director Sherman E. Lee to the careers of noted Northeast Ohio artists such as Ken Nevadomi, Shirley Aley Campbell and John Clague.
Cullinan died May 2 at age 86 at her Cleveland Heights home in the presence of her sister, Jean House, and son, Thomas W. Cullinan, of complications from lung cancer and Alzheimer's, her son said.
She was interred at Calvary Cemetery, 10000 Miles Ave., Cleveland. Her family requests that contributions should be made in Cullinan's memory to the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Memorial at museum
Cullinan will be remembered Saturday, June 24, in a noon memorial in the Lecture Hall of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd., Cleveland.
Speakers will include former Plain Dealer photographer Bill Wynne, and artists William Martin Jean and Campbell.
