Verne Gallery

Verne Gallery The Verne Gallery was established in 1953. We specialize in antique and contemporary Japanese prints.

05/24/2026

Sunday’s With Mike: Giving Thanks On Memorial Day

As I travel around to one city after another to exhibit in some of the top art fairs, I enjoy hearing people laughing and smiling at my exhibit space. I hope my inspiring stories of my artist’s successes and my humorous stories of overcoming my personal failures, encourage people and especially my kids and my friends to pursue their hopes and dreams.

Growing up, the art world often was very intimidating to most people including me.

I hope my Sundays With Mike have made the art world a little more friendly and accessible to all that have watched

I hope to see you at The Little Italy Art Walk. Bring A Friend.

Moral Of The Story:Thank You To All

Photos

Lieutenant Dr Daniel Verne 1953

Mom and Dad in Japan 1953

My sisters Betsy and Hari in Japan 1954

Early years of The Verne Collection 1960

Sleeping Fox By Yuuka Miyajima Painting 2026

Little Italy Art Walk June 5-7, 2026





05/17/2026

Sunday’s With Mike: Oh The Places You’ll Go

As a kid, my parents took me on many interesting trips hoping that there would be some kind of cerebral awakening in my brain.

Here is a look at the last few years of travel and experiences. You decide if my parent’s efforts were fruitless.

Moral Of The Story: The Older I Get The More People Can Kiss My Ass. ( Just Kidding). (SEE PHOTO OF DONKEY)

Thanks Mom and Dad For Showing Me The World

Sunday’s With Mike: I’m Ready For KindergartenWhen I was 5, I flunked kindergarten. After that, my parents pretty much ...
05/10/2026

Sunday’s With Mike: I’m Ready For Kindergarten

When I was 5, I flunked kindergarten. After that, my parents pretty much said “ Good Luck Mike“

Although my academic prowess excelled in later years, at 16, I scored the lowest SAT scores in the history of my high school. My parents and friends didn’t think there was a chance in hell that I would succeed and said “ Good Luck Mike”.

When I decided to take a little Japanese print gallery from Cleveland and make it famous, my parents friends rolled their eyes and said “Good Luck Mike”.

As I travelled to one major exhibition after another to some of the most prestigious art fairs in the U.S, the crowds continued to swell listening to my stories of success and failure in life. The other dealers shook their heads. They had never seen anyone like me at such a high level art show.

When I would visit some of the most prestigious contemporary artists in Japan, they all looked me with great skepticism. They had never met anyone this ordinary at this level of the art world.

However, growing up with works that hung in the Metropolitan, Cleveland Museum Of Art, and the Fogg gave me an aesthetic sense of what’s is great in the art world. In addition, emotional intelligence as well as a sense of humor that most people lack helped me along.

Thanks to all for another great art season

Moral Of The Story: Modesty, Humbleness, And A Sense Of Humility. Are Three Things You Can’t Measure.

Can’t Wait To Play Kickball With My Friends Again





05/03/2026

Sunday’s With Mike: What makes a neighborhood ?

I still live in the same simple house I grew up in. I am one of the oldest people on the street, but I still feel and think like a kid.

I could live almost anywhere I wanted to in Cleveland, but I love this quiet little street called Lansmere in a neighborhood called Fernway where kids ride their bikes past my house , I can wave to the neighbors as I drive to work and they wave back, or just walk around the block and see all the houses where my friends use to live and feel like a kid again.

Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, ( Although I am not Dorothy ) each day when I wake up, I can just click my sneakers together and I feel just like the kids in the neighborhood.

Moral of The Story: There Is No Place Like Home





Emerging From Darkness: Prints By Katsunori HamanishiArt Institute Of ChicagoApril 8-June 22I hope you can visit this m...
05/02/2026

Emerging From Darkness:

Prints By Katsunori Hamanishi

Art Institute Of Chicago

April 8-June 22

I hope you can visit this major exhibition
at the art Institute of Chicago.

Please come and see Hamanishi’s work at
The Verne Collection.

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04/26/2026

Sunday’s With Mike: Thanks For A Wonderful Art Season

73 years later a small little Japanese print gallery in Cleveland continues to defy the odds.

We began with a magnificent Sarah Brayer exhibition at the gallery followed by record breaking traveling exhibitions to New York, Washington, Los Angeles, and the Cleveland Museum Of Art Fine Print Fair.

It takes a team to make all this possible. Thanks to my family, my friends, all the collectors, all my artists, and my brilliant manager William and my loyal famous artist and manager Yuko for another wonderful art season.

Moral Of The Story: Thanks For Making An Ordinary Guy Like Mike A World Famous Art Dealer.

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04/19/2026

Sunday’s With Mike: You Gotta Believe

73 year later, a little Japanese print gallery continues to survive.

Last day of the Cleveland Museum Of Art Fine Print Fair.

I hope to see you at the Verne Collection established in 1953.

Moral Of The Story: Never Give Up In What You
You Believe In ( Love This Music)







Images

Mike

Little Stars Yuuka Miyajima

Shimmer Yuko Kimura

Spring Kimono Hideo Takeda

Solitude Kiyoshi Saito

Early Spring Tamba Ryohei Tanaka

Once Upon A Lullaby Shigeki Kuroda

Appearance Sarah Brayer

Slippery When Wet Daniel Kelly

Meditation Paris Kiyoshi Saito

Please come and meet the master of wabi-sabi (Beauty of Imperfection) and famous Japanese printmaker Yuko Kimura at The ...
04/18/2026

Please come and meet the master of wabi-sabi (Beauty of Imperfection) and famous Japanese printmaker Yuko Kimura at The Cleveland Museum Of Art Fine Print Fair and see her first large paperwork in over two years Tsugi
Hagi (Patchwork) at the print fair.

She has had approximately 15 Museum shows ( Washi Transformed curated by Meher McArthur)
In the last five years

Tsugi Hagi (patchwork) 2026

By Yuko Kimura

etching, monotype, indigo pigment on antique Japanese book pages and kozo handmade paper, thread , collage

Tsugi-hagi is a Japanese term meaning “patchwork” or “mending”, often referring to traditional, visible repair techniques like Boro.

Tsugi Hagi is a tribute to my grandmother. The process of stitching strait lines is the way I remember her. I used the cotton threads that my grandmother gave to me many years ago. I add a layer of sashiko like running stitchings by hand over the etching and monotype print.

My grandmother’s nick name was Baba. She was born in 1915 and lived until 100 years old. Baba started sewing when she was around forty years old. It was when there were not enough cloths for her three children.

As a child, I always watched my grandmother sewing cloths for her family.
Threads, needles, buttons, wooden spools and fragments of cloth were my favorite toys.
I used to imitate her sewing with them.

Photos Please click on image to see entire photo

1.Tsugi Hagi
By Yuko Kimura
Edition of 1

2. Yuko at one of the
Museum exhibitions
for Washi Transformed

Print Fair Hours ( Last two days)

Saturday and Sunday

10-5

Discover the beauty of Quiet Elegance
at the Verne Collection established in
1953

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I texted Daniel Kelly last night that his woodblock print Fish Out Of Water was the Curator’s Choice at The Cleveland Mu...
04/17/2026

I texted Daniel Kelly last night that his woodblock print Fish Out Of Water was the Curator’s Choice at The Cleveland Museum Of Art Fine Print Fair

He responded by calling me “ Way Out Willie”.

See some of the best galleries in the world, celebrate the 41st Cleveland Fine Print Fair, and celebrate the 73rd year of one of the top contemporary Japanese print galleries in the world.

Mike. ( known in the art world as “ Way Out Willie”

Images

Fish Out Of Water ( Curator’s Choice)
Limited Edition Woodblock Print
on Nepalese
Handmade Paper

Mike ( Way Out Willie)

I hope to see you today, tomorrow, and Sunday at The Cleveland Museum Of Art
Admission is Free





Please come and see the rare early works of Sarah Brayer and all of her new prints and paperworks at the Cleveland Museu...
04/15/2026

Please come and see the rare early works of Sarah Brayer and all of her new prints and paperworks at the Cleveland Museum Fine Print Fair April 17-19

Free To The Public

Friday April 17th 10-6
Saturday April 18th 10-5
Sunday April 19th 10-5

Image. Together As One
By Sarah Brayer
Aquatint On Washi

Discover The Beauty Of Quiet Elegance at
the Verne Collection established in 1953

www.vernegallery.com





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2207 Murray Hill Rd
Cleveland, OH
44106

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Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
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