Cincinnati Art Museum
The Cincinnati Art Museum is an art museum founded in Cincinnati in 1881 . It is located on the eastern edge of the city center in Eden Park in a building complex built from 1886 and expanded several times. The collections are mainly based on gifts and donations from citizens of the city. This includes works of art and objects from almost all parts of the world, which depict around 6000 years of human history. The focus of the collections shown in 100 exhibition rooms are arts and crafts from the United States and Europe, as well as exhibits from Africa, Japan and the Middle East. In addition to paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs, the museum exhibits musical instruments, clothing, textiles and applied arts, including various period rooms . In addition, the museum presents several exhibitions every year and offers an extensive educational program.
history
Cincinnati grew from a settlement of fewer than 1,000 people to one of the tenth largest cities in the United States in the 19th century. Transportation, trade, and industry contributed to the city's rise and prosperity. In this environment, the arts played an important role early on, especially in the fields of music and painting. The city was home to numerous stages and a number of artists lived here. In the decades before the Cincinnati Art Museum was founded, there were various venues in the city that displayed art and some institutions that called themselves museums. However, these were not art museums in the strict sense. The Letton's Museum , founded by the painter Ralph Letton , was built as early as 1818 and featured a wide variety of objects such as wax figures, curiosities, animal preparations, minerals and Indian handicrafts. In addition, he showed 50 portraits of citizens of the city in the collection, which existed until 1836. Also in 1818 the Dr. Daniel Drake's Western Museum established a natural history collection in the city. The ornithologist and draftsman John James Audubon was one of his employees . After financial difficulties, the landscape painter Joseph Dorfeuille took over the museum in 1823 and mainly exhibited wax figures and dioramas. In 1828 the portrait painter Frederick Franks founded the Gallery of Fine Arts, a commercial art salon. He also taught other painters in the city. In 1839 he took over the Western Museum from Dorfeuille and converted it into a kind of horror cabinet. A similar setting was offered by Mrs. Frances Trollope's Exotic Bazaar from 1829-1830 , which was also known as Trollope's Folly .
In the field of art education, the Prussian painter and sculptor Frederick Eckstein was one of the pioneers in Cincinnati. He taught at Miss Bailey's School for Young Ladies from 1823 before founding the Academy of Fine Arts in 1828 . This art academy was able to present its first art exhibition with more than 100 exhibits, but art lessons had to be stopped after a few months. The Ladies Academy of Fine Arts, founded by Sarah Worthington King Peter in 1854, had a more lasting effect . In addition to giving art classes to women, this institution began building a collection of copies of well-known works of art. This collection is considered the city's first public art collection. In addition, private art collections arose, such as that of the wealthy businessman Nicholas Longworth . He supported, for example, the sculptor Hiram Powers and the black painter Robert S. Duncanson . To his art collection, the painting belonged Ophelia and Laertes of Benjamin West , which is now in the Cincinnati Art Museum. The reputation of Cincinnati as a city for visual artists was largely shaped by the McMicken School of Design , founded in 1869 , from which today's Art Academy of Cincinnati emerged .
The world exhibition Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 was the driving force behind the founding of the Cincinnati Art Museum . In the Woman's Pavilion set up there, there was a Cincinnati Room , in which woodcuts, porcelain paintings and textile works by women could be seen. The Woman's Centennial Executive Committee appointed for this purpose was responsible for the selection of the exhibits . After the World's Fair on April 28, 1877, this resulted in the Woman's Art Museum Association , an association of women who sought to establish an art museum in Cincinnati. In 1880, businessman Charles W. West donated US $ 150,000 to the construction of a museum, on condition that the city's citizens raise the same amount within a year. In fact, this additional amount could be made available in just one month. On February 15, 1881, the Cincinnati Museum Association was founded as a sponsoring company. In 1882, the city of Cincinnati provided 800 hectares of land in Eden Park on the eastern edge of downtown for the construction of the museum building.
The museum's first director was Alfred T. Goshorn, who had previously organized exhibitions of industrial and consumer goods. Under his direction, the museum was supposed to “promote and also teach public taste”. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London served as a model for the conception of the new museum . From 1882, under the direction of the architect James W. McLaughlin, a building was built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style , an American variant of the neo-Romanesque . Bluish limestone from the region and red granite from Missouri were used in the construction. Due to later extensions, little of the original building is visible from the outside. Only the west facade as well as the dome and towers can still be seen. The original entrance with Canadian granite columns has been preserved inside. At the opening of the museum building on May 17th. 1886 was as Art Palace of the West ( Art Palace of the West praised).
Even before the museum had its own house, the collection was founded with a copy of the fresco The School of Athens after Raphael . Works by Carl Friedrich Lessing , Andreas Achenbach , Emanuel Leutze and Eastman Johnson followed in 1882 . In the same year weapons and armor from the Hilliford collection were added. These early collections were initially shown in rented rooms at the Cincinnati Music Hall . The collection grew continuously after moving into its own museum, with patrons in particular contributing to the expansion. In 1887, 20,000 objects of Native American art entered the museum as a gift from Thomas Cleneay. In 1889 the dealer Carl Steckelmann showed his extensive collection of African art in the museum. The director, board of directors and friends of the museum then decided to buy this collection. The Cincinnati Art Museum was the first museum in the United States to own art from Africa. Other early acquisitions included casts of antiquities, including a replica of the Nike of Samothrace in the Louvre .
The museum began acquiring works from Cincinnati artists early on. In 1892, for example, the painting Peasant Woman of Borst by the artist Elizabeth Nourse entered the collection. In 1894, museum director Goshorn organized an exhibition of contemporary art and subsequently acquired several works by modern American painters. Pictures by Childe Hassam , John Henry Twachtman , Joseph DeCamp and Robert Frederick Blum found their way into the collection. In addition, the Cincinnati-born painter Frank Duveneck donated many of his works to the museum, such as his well-known painting Whistling Boy .
An extension soon became necessary for the rapidly growing collection. Jacob G. Schmidlapp donated the financial means in memory of his daughter Emma Louise. The extension called Schmidlapp Wing with a library and further exhibition rooms was built according to plans by Daniel Burnham with Doric-Greek elements in the style of neoclassicism . After the death of Alfred T. Goshorn in 1902, Joseph Henry Gest followed as director. Under his leadership, the collections were systematically cataloged, intensive cooperation with schools took place and art history lessons began in the museum. In 1910 the John J. Emrey Collection, including works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , Mary Cassatt and Alfred Sisley, entered the museum. To accommodate the extended collections, the sisters Eliza and Mary Ropes donated money for an extension. The Ropes Wing, named after them, was designed by architects Garber and Woodward and opened in 1910.
Another important foundation was the old masters collection of Mary M. Emery in 1927. These include works by Frans Hals , Andrea Mantegna , Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Tizian as well as 19th century paintings by Jean-François Millet and Théodore Rousseau . There was also the Herbert Greer French collection with extensive prints and in 1940 the gift of the Emilie L. Heine collection with several works by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot and paintings by other artists. The foundation of Fanny Bryce Lehmer, whose purchase fund made the targeted expansion of the collections possible, was of further importance. Architecturally, the museum was expanded in 1965 with the Adams-Emery Wing and in 2003 with the Cincinnati Wing. The Rotterdam architectural office Neutelings Riedijk Architects has been working on a 20-year master plan to redesign the museum since 2007 . In addition to various modifications, a new entrance and a 60 meter high tower are planned. The Longworth Wing was opened in 2013 as a further extension. Cameron Kitchin has been director of the Cincinnati Art Museum since 2014 .
Collections
Ancient and Islamic Art
The ancient art collection at the Cincinnati Art Museum includes artifacts from various regions of the Mediterranean and the Middle East from 4000 BC to the first centuries afterwards. The first pieces for this part of the collection were acquired as early as 1886. You can see mainly Egyptian, Greek and Roman exhibits. In addition to stone sculptures, metalwork, wall reliefs and ceramic vessels, there is, for example, an ancient Egyptian mummy sarcophagus . The collection of sculptures and architectural fragments of the Nabataeans from the area of today's Jordan is particularly extensive . In the field of Islamic art example, there is a decorated with ceramic mosaics mihrab from Iran or Central Asia and a richly painted ceramic dish from the north-west Iran, in addition to floral motifs also shows a character representation. Elaborate woodcut and inlay work can be found in the Damascus Room , a reconstructed room interior from a house in Damascus .
Egyptian mummy of a Ptolemaic man, 332 BC. Chr.
Greek sculpture of a lion, funerary monument, around 350 BC Chr.
Greek god or hero, Roman sculpture A.D. 54–68.
Painted and glazed vase from what is now Iran, 8th or 7th century BC Chr.
Room decoration in the so-called Damascus Room
Asian art
The collection of Asian art at the Cincinnati Art Museum is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. Objects from China are a focal point of the collection, which comprises more than 5000 exhibits. There is pottery, porcelain, jade, ivory and lacquer work, Buddhist sculptures, paintings and prints, bronzes, enamel and other metal ware, wall screens and furniture. Another focus is the collection of Japanese art. Here, too, there is porcelain, metal and lacquer work, wall screens, paintings and prints. The museum also has some weapons and armor, as well as ivory carvings and other handicrafts. The museum also has some exhibits from India. You can see Buddhist and Hindu sculptures and a collection of around 100 miniature painting objects.
Qian Xuan:
doves and pear blossoms after the rain
1266–1300
India:
Shiva-Nataraja
16. – 17. century
Kitagawa Utamaro:
The courtesan Ichikawa from the Matsuba-Ya house
at the end of the 18th century
Nepal:
Buddha statue
11th or 12th century
China:
painted ceramic horse
Tang dynasty, 8th century
African art
The department for African art goes back to the Indiana- born German-American Carl Steckelmann. He had traveled to the countries on the coast of West and Central Africa on behalf of an English trading company and acquired numerous objects there. This included wooden masks, cult objects, textiles and various pieces of handicraft. The collection was exhibited on loan at the Cincinnati Art Museum in 1889 and met with great public interest. The museum officials, headed by director Goshorn, then decided to purchase this 1,300-piece collection in 1890, making the Cincinnati Art Museum a pioneer in the United States in the field of African art. In the decades that followed, the collection of African art was expanded through foundations and acquisitions, and objects from other parts of Africa also entered the collection.
Mask of the Yaka people, early to mid-20th century
Bapunu face mask, late 19th century
Marka-Dafing face mask, mid-20th century
Female sculpture of the Bapunu, late 19th century
Vili wicker, late 19th century
Art of the indigenous peoples of North America
Exhibits from the indigenous peoples of North America, often referred to as Native Americans in the United States , have been in the collection since the museum opened in 1886. In the Cincinnati Art Museum, for example, there are objects from the Adena culture , whose settlement area was on the Ohio River , the river on which Cincinnati lies. Other items in the collection come from members of the Pueblo and Zuñi people in the western United States, the Haida people in British Columbia, Canada, and the Chilkat people in Alaska . Objects on display include clothing and other textiles, weapons, carvings, and pottery. There are also works by contemporary artists, such as ceramics by Virgil Ortiz and Maria Martinez .
European art
The European Art Department at the Cincinnati Art Museum includes painting, miniature painting, drawings, prints, and sculptures. An early example of the most important works of Italian painting in the museum is the Madonna and Child and Saints Anthony of Padua and Nicholas of Tolentino by the artist Matteo di Giovanni, who worked in Siena . There are also Renaissance images such as Mars with Cupid by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri , A Sibylle and a Prophet by Andrea Mantegna and the portrait of King Philip II of Spain by Titian . There are also Baroque paintings such as David with the Head of Goliath by Bernardo Strozzi or Saint Charles Borromeo by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo . The important sculptures in the collection include a Madonna and Child by Giovanni della Robbia and the Rape of the Sabine Woman by Giovanni da Bologna . Examples of Spanish baroque painting are St. Thomas of Villanueva distributes his clothes to begging children by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and St. Peter Nolasco discovers the image of the Virgin of El Puig by Francisco de Zurbarán . For example, the museum owns the etching Disparate Alegre by Francisco de Goya .
Matteo di Giovanni:
Madonna and Child and Saint Anthony of Padua and Nicholas of Tolentino
1470–1473
Andrea Mantegna:
A Sibyl and a Prophet
around 1495
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo:
Saint Charles Borromeo
1767–1769
Giovanni da Bologna: The
robbery of the Sabine woman
around 1600
Francisco de Zurbarán:
Saint Peter Nolasco discovers the image of the Virgin by El Puig in
1630
In the field of Flemish and Dutch painting, there is a depiction of Saint Christopher by Hans Memling , the biblical scene Samson and Delilah by Peter Paul Rubens and the portrait of a man in armor by Anthony van Dyck . There is also the portrait of a Dutch family attributed to Frans Hals , by Jacob van Ruisdael the painting River Landscape with a Castle on a High Rock and by Ludolf Bakhuizen the maritime subject Dutchmen board a boat . In the field of printmaking, there are, for example, the etchings Jacob Haaringh by Rembrandt van Rijn and Der große Herkules by Hendrick Goltzius or an engraving Adam and Eva by Albrecht Dürer from the German-speaking area .
Hans Memling:
Saint Christophorus
1474–1485
Peter Paul Rubens:
Simson and Delila
1604-1614
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo:
River landscape with a castle on a high rock
1670–1679
Hendrick Goltzius:
The great Hercules
1589
Albrecht Dürer:
Adam and Eve
1504
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British painting is represented in the collection primarily through portraits from the 18th century. These include, for example, the portrait of Richard Peers Symons, MP by Joshua Reynolds or the female portrait of Ann Ford by Thomas Gainsborough . Gainsborough also has the genre picture The Cottage Door . The museum also shows the hustle and bustle of the Southwark Fair by William Hogarth and the cityscape of Waterloo Bridge by John Constable . The museum also has an extensive collection of miniature painting with works from the 16th to the 20th centuries. In addition to paintings by the French Jacques Augustin, there are mainly works by British artists such as Isaak Oliver , Richard Cosway and Alexander Cooper .
Joshua Reynolds:
Richard Peers Symons, MP
1770-1771
Thomas Gainsborough:
Ann Ford
1760
William Hogarth:
Southwark Fair
1733
John Constable:
Waterloo Bridge
around 1820
Richard Cosway:
Miss Franks
around 1790
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One focus of the painting collection are the works of French artists. Here you can find baroque images such as Mercury gives Bacchus to the nymphs by Nysa by François Boucher , The Toilet of Venus by Simon Vouet and the landscape painting An artist paints after nature by Claude Lorrain . The 19th century portrait of Luigi Cherubini by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres , the orientalist slave market by Jean-Léon Gérôme and some works by the Barbizon school , including The Ruins of the Castle of Pierrefonds and Seinebogen at Port-Marly by Jean- Baptiste Camille Corot . The museum owns the landscape painting Weiher bei Gylieu by Charles-François Daubigny and a drawing of the same motif. There are also other landscape motifs such as summer sunset by Théodore Rousseau and sunset, Vevey by Gustave Courbet . The museum has the pastoral motif On the Way to Work by Jean-François Millet , by Honoré Daumier it shows the sketchy painting Orchestra Seats , by Édouard Manet there is a scene at a horse race with women running . The museum has a number of pictures from the main representatives of French Impressionism . Thus, Pierre-Auguste Renoir with the landscape paintings Fog on Guernsey and the pastel portrait of Mlle. Jeanne Samary represented by Edgar Degas , there is the motive dancer in her loge . There are also the landscape paintings Bougival by Alfred Sisley , rocks near Port-Goulphar by Claude Monet and Grauer Tag, Varengeville, Auberge du Manoir by Camille Pissarro . Other landscape motifs in the collection are the painting Mahana maa by Paul Gauguin from Tahiti , the drawing Bridge by Trois-Sautets by Paul Cézanne and the painting Bridge at Le Pecq by André Derain . There are also works created in France, such as the painting Undergrowth with a Walking Couple by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh or the portrait of Max Jacob by the Italian Amedeo Modigliani . An example of Swiss art in the museum is the portrait of two women The Holy Hour by Ferdinand Hodler .
Claude Lorrain:
An artist paints from nature
1639
Jean-François Millet:
On the way to work
1851-1853
Edgar Degas:
Dancer in her box
1874–1884
Pierre Auguste Renoir:
Mlle. Jeanne Samary
1873-1883
Vincent van Gogh:
Undergrowth with a walking couple
1890
The European art of the 20th century is represented with a number of important works in the museum. So there is of Pablo Picasso , the cubist still life with glass and lemon as well as an abstract woman head of Henri Matisse , the woman Portrait Romanian blouse , by Joan Miró a mural for the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati and Oskar Kokoschka , the portrait of the Duchess of Montesquieu-Fezensac . The latter was in the Folkwang Museum in Essen until 1937 and was sold abroad as so-called Degenerate Art .
United States Art
The United States Department of Art includes painting, sculpture, and works on paper. This area lasted until the end of the Second World War. Later works are grouped as contemporary art in the museum - regardless of the artist's country of origin.
One of the earliest works of American painting in the collection is the portrait of Thomas Greene by John Singleton Copley, dated 1758 and still from the colonial era . The portraits of Eleanor Miller (Mrs. Francis Bailey) and Francis Bailey by Charles Willson Peale from 1791 represent early American portraiture after the independence of the United States . The battle picture The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar by John Trumbull from 1789 presents a European theater of war as a motif. Based on history painting, the work Ophelia and Laertes by Benjamin West , painted in 1792 , was created, in which a scene from Hamlet by William Shakespeare is shown. The painters of the Hudson River School first discovered the special charm of the American landscape in the 19th century . The Cincinnati Art Museum is showing the works Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, California by Albert Bierstadt , The Fall of Tequendama, Near Bogotá, New Granada by Frederic Edwin Church or the Tonalist painting Near the Village, October by George Inness . The collection includes the maritime cityscape of The Ships "Winged Arrow" and "Southern Cross" in Boston Harbor by Fitz Hugh Lane , a major exponent of American luminism . Examples of 19th century American realism are the Civil War motif Order No. 11 by George Caleb Bingham and the depiction of African Americans in picture Sunday Morning in Virginia by Winslow Homer . 19th century still life painting is represented by William Harnett 's painting The Last Rose of Summer . Among the sculptures from the 19th century is the bronze figure Pan of Rohallion by Frederick William MacMonnies , who lived in France for many years and whose work is based on the style of the Parisian École des beaux-arts .
Benjamin West:
Ophelia and Laertes
1792
Albert Bierstadt:
Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, California
1871–73
Winslow Homer:
Sunday Morning in Virginia
1877
William Harnett:
The Last Rose of Summer
1886
Frederick William MacMonnies:
Pan of Rohallion
1890-1894
There are a number of pictures in the collection that can be attributed to American Impressionism. One of its best-known representatives is Mary Cassatt , who lived in France for many years and exhibited together with fellow artists there. With Mother and Child, the Cincinnati Art Museum has a characteristic subject for the painter. Childe Hassam , of whom the museum is exhibiting the Vedute Pont Royal, Paris , was also active in France . An impressionistic landscape view also shows William Merritt Chase in Summer at Shinnecock Hills . Maurice Prendergast with the New England Harbor view is already a late impressionist work. Representatives of the painting of the Gilded Age are also John Singer Sargent with the painting A Venetian Woman , created in his adopted home Europe, and Thomas Eakins , who portrayed the Archbishop of Cincinnati Archbishop William Henry Elder . The American Realism of the 20th century with some mean works can be found in the collection. So there from Edward Hopper a street view Sun on Prospect Street (Gloucester, MA) , by Grant Wood , the group portrait Daughters of Revolution , by John Steuart Curry , the genre painting The Old Folks (Mother and Father) and Charles Sheeler , the reduced interior picture The Upstairs . The museum owns the painting Christmas Morning, Breakfast by the African American Horace Pippin , which is close to naive painting .
Mary Cassatt:
Mother and Child
1884/1894
William Merritt Chase:
Summer at Shinnecock Hills
1891
Maurice Prendergast:
New England Harbor
around 1919–1923
John Singer Sargent:
A Venetian Woman
1882
Grant Wood:
Daughters of Revolution
1932
The focus of the American art collection includes works by artists who come from Cincinnati or who lived and worked here. One of the city's most famous painters is Frank Duveneck , who came to Cincinnati when he was two. The museum's collection includes his famous painting The Whistling Boy, as well as numerous other works that he donated to the museum. These include, for example, a self-portrait , portraits such as Professor Ludwig Loefftz , John White Alexander , Francis Boott and the portrait of his wife Elizabeth Boott Duveneck , a still life with watermelon , the landscape painting Beechwoods at Polling, Bavaria , the oriental motif Guard of the Harem and a Florentine Flower Girl painted in Italy . The museum owns the still life Apple Tree Branches from his wife Elizabeth Boott . Duveneck's students included the Cincinnati-born painters John Henry Twachtman and Robert Frederick Blum . Twachtman's collection includes impressionistic landscapes such as Springtime , Snow Scene and Waterfall ; The museum owns the wall decoration Mural Study by Blum and the motifs Venetian Lacemakers and The Silk Merchant, Japan, which were created while traveling .
One of the first artists in Cincinnati was Aaron Houghton Corwine , whose portrait Thomas Johnson Matthews is dated 1820–1823. By James Beard there is a genre piece The Long Bill of 1840 in the collection. One of the first black artists was the painter Robert S. Duncanson , who temporarily lived in Cincinnati . The museum owns the motifs Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Little Miami River , Rising Mist and Pass at Leny from his landscape paintings, which were influenced in the style of the Hudson River School . Other mid-19th century paintings in this style include The Mill by Worthington Whittredge and a series of landscape views by William Louis Sunday . A few years later, in 1871, the subject was American Falls of Niagara from Goat Iceland by Godfrey N. Frankenstein . In the tradition of mythological representation, the picture The Harp of Erin by Thomas Buchanan Read , depicting Ireland in the form of a female figure. Other examples of genre painting include patty cake by Lilly Martin Spencer , The Chimney Corner by Henry Mosler and Peasant Woman of Boršt by Elizabeth Nourse . A nude representation shows Kenyon Cox in The Approach of Love . A portrait of Cox, painted by fellow painter Henry L. Fry , is also in the collection. An example of sculpture in Cincinnati is Hiram Powers with his female nude portrayal, Eve Disconsolate .
There's a rural winter scene by Charles T. Webber with The Underground Railroad . In contrast, the oriental view Rue de Tunis by Henriette Wachman appears . The impressionist view Villa Castellani, Bellosquardo, Near Florence by Louis Ritter was also created abroad . An impressionistic painting style can also be found in Lewis Henry Meakin and his motif Salt Marsh, Cape Ann, from the east coast of the United States . Two painters living in Cincinnati in particular show Native American motifs in their works. The Henry Farny collection includes the motifs Renegade Apaches , The Unwelcome Guests , The Last of the Herd and Hunting Camp on the Plains and Joseph Henry Sharp chose the themes Early Moonlight, Crow Reservation , The Harvest Dance , Apache Camp in Hondo Cañon, New Mexico and Arrow Maker .
Frank Duveneck:
Whistling Boy
1872
Robert Duncanson:
Blue Hole, Little Miami River
1851
John Henry Twachtman:
Old Holley House, Cos Cob
1901
Joseph Henry Sharp:
The Harvest Dance
1893-1894
Hiram Powers:
Eve Disconsolate
1858–1877
The girl portrait First Communion by Caroline Augusta Lord , a still life with musical instruments by Charles Alfred Meurer , the woman portrayal of Frivolity by James Roy Hopkins and the portrait of a musician in The Cellist by Joseph DeCamp date from the beginning of the 20th century . There are also the late Impressionist cityscapes The Midnight Mass , Garfield Park by Edward Timothy Hurley , 79th St. and Riverside Drive by Dixie Selden , Winter in Harbor by Charles S. Kaelin and In the Park by Frank Harmon Myers . By Edward Henry Potthast there is the maritime motifs Brother and Sister , A Day's Fishing and A Sailing Party . The paintings The Harvesters by Louis John Endres and a still life with apples and jugs by Bessie Hoover Wessel are already committed to realism . An example of artists who were active in Cincinnati in the second half of the 20th century is Paul Chidlaw , who created his 1980 painting Boogie Woogie in an abstract painting style.
Contemporary Arts
The Cincinnati Art Museum has collected contemporary art from the start. This section currently comprises art from the period after the Second World War. This includes paintings by Richard Diebenkorn , Frank Stella , Ellsworth Kelly , Andy Warhol , Anselm Kiefer , Gerhard Richter , Tom Wesselmann , Francesco Clemente , Mark Rothko , Alex Katz , Jim Dine and Franz Kline . There are also sculptures by Mark di Suvero , Jenny Holzer , Mark Bradford , Donald Judd and Robert Rauschenberg , photo art by Cindy Sherman and a video sculpture by Nam June Paik .
photography
The photography department at the Cincinnati Art Museum ranges from historic photographs from the 19th century to work by contemporary photographers. The collection includes photographs by photography pioneers David Octavius Hill and William Henry Fox Talbot as well as early photographs with travel views, for example from Japan. Numerous well-known names from the 20th century are represented in the collection, including Gordon Parks , Berenice Abbott , Walker Evans , Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan . There are also works by contemporary photographers such as Hiroshi Sugimoto , William Eggleston and Andreas Gursky .
Crafts and design, fashion and textiles
The department for handicrafts and design comprises around 7000 objects and goes back to the first acquisitions in 1881, the year the museum was founded. The collection includes furniture, glass, porcelain and metalwork from the 17th century to the present day. Special features include several so-called period rooms in which wall decorations are shown together with furniture and other furnishings. From France, for example, there is a study with wood paneling from the reign of King Henry IV , a salon with wall painting in the style of Louis-quinze and a room clad in oak in the style of Louis-seize . Another room shows wood paneling from England from the 18th century. Ceramic work and porcelain can be found in the collection from Asia, Europe and the United States. There are Italian majolica plates, Delft faience , porcelain from the Meissen , Sèvres , Royal Copenhagen , Royal Worcester , Bow and Crown Derby manufacturers . There are also glass objects from Lalique and Louis Comfort Tiffany , metalwork from Fabergé , for example, and English silverwork. There is also furniture from American production, some of which come from companies in Cincinnati.
Chest of drawers by Jean-Pierre Latz, France around 1745
Vase from the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin, 1890–1900
Silver centerpiece, Gorham Manufacturing Company, American from 1903
Bed from the Mitchell & Rammelsberg cabinet maker, Cincinnati circa 1880
Metal vessel by Josef Hoffmann, Wiener Werkstätten around 1925
The fashion and textiles museum area comprises around 15,000 objects from the 15th century to the present day. The collection includes a wide variety of exhibits such as church vestments, traditional clothing from different continents or industrially manufactured fabrics from the furniture manufacturer Herman Miller . A large part of the collection has been devoted to western clothing for women, men and children since the 18th century, including shoes and accessories. The collection of women's dresses is particularly extensive, ranging from English silk dresses from the Baroque period to designs by Parisian fashion houses in the 19th century and contemporary fashion.
Early fashion designers and fashion houses with clothes in the museum include Charles Frederick Worth , Madeleine Vionnet , Mariano Fortuny, and Coco Chanel . From the 20th century you can also find clothing by European fashion designers such as the French Hubert de Givenchy , Jacques Fath , Christian Dior and Pierre Cardin , the German Karl Lagerfeld , the Spaniards Paco Rabanne and Cristóbal Balenciaga , from Italy Valentino Garavani , Gianni Versace and Emilio Pucci , Claudy Jongstra from the Netherlands , Martin Margiela from Belgium , Sybil Connolly from Ireland and Charles James and Vivienne Westwood from the United Kingdom . There is also fashion from Japan by renowned brands such as Hanae Mori , Issey Miyake , Yoshiki Hishinuma , Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons . A large part of the clothing collection also comes from American fashion artists such as Geoffrey Beene , Bill Blass , Teal Traina , Maurice Pensionner , Carolina Herrera , Donald Brooks , Bonnie Cashin , Michael Kors , Elizabeth Hawes , Roy Halston Frowick , Molly Parnis , James Galanos , Rudi Gernreich and Tina Leser and from Canada by Arnold Scaasi .
Musical instruments
The Cincinnati Art Museum has been collecting musical instruments since 1888 and now has a collection of more than 800 objects. In addition to musical instruments that are important in European-influenced classical music, the museum shows a large number of traditional musical instruments from cultures on different continents. The exhibits range from Indian string instruments to Japanese drums, or from Indian pipes to a viola by the Italian violin maker Antonio Amati .
literature
- Cincinnati Art Museum (Ed.): Art of the first Americans: from the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum . Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati 1976.
- Millard F. Rogers: Spanish paintings in the Cincinnati Art Museum . Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati 1978.
- Carol Schoellkopf: Masterpieces from the Cincinnati Art Museum . Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati 1984, ISBN 0-931537-00-2 .
- Jane Durrell, John Wilson: Masterpieces of American painting from the Cincinnati Art Museum . Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati 1991, ISBN 0-931537-14-2 .
- John T. Spike: Italian paintings in the Cincinnati Art Museum . Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati 1993, ISBN 0-931537-17-7 .
- Aaron Betsky: Cincinnati Art Museum Collection Highlights . Giles, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-904832-53-9 .
- J. Carter Brown: French Impressionists and Their Companions . Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Neue Pinakothek, Munich 1990.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aaron Betsky: Cincinnati Art Museum Collection Highlights , pp 6-7.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Carol Schoellkopf: Masterpieces from the Cincinnati Art Museum , pp. 9–11.
- ↑ a b c Millard F. Rogers, Jr .: The Cincinnati Art Museum's Painting Collections in J. Carter Brown: French Impressionists and Their Companions , p. 14.
- ↑ Aaron Betsky: Cincinnati Art Museum Collection Highlights , p. 100.
- ↑ a b Aaron Betsky: Cincinnati Art Museum Collection Highlights , S. 102nd
- ↑ a b Aaron Betsky: Cincinnati Art Museum Collection Highlights , S. 105th
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