Toledo Museum of Art
The Toledo Museum of Art is an art museum in Toledo , Ohio .
history
The history of the museum is closely linked to Edward Drummond Libbey . In 1888 he moved his glass factory from New England to Toledo, thereby benefiting the city's economic development. In addition to professional training, Libbey and his wife Florence Scott Libbey also support their employees in art education. In 1901 they teamed up with 130 other citizens to found the museum. The first president of the museum was Edward Libbey. After the first exhibitions had taken place in a commercial building in downtown Toledo, in 1903 they moved into their own house in the neighborhood, which had previously been converted into a museum. After the collection had grown enormously in a short time, it was decided in 1909 to build a new museum building in the west of the city. The architects Edward B. Green and Harry W. Wachter designed a building in the classicist style which was inaugurated in 1912. With an extension in 1926, the exhibition area could be doubled. From 1927 to 1959 Blake-More Godwin was director of the museum.
After the death of the founding couple, another extension to the museum followed in the 1930s, which also included a concert hall. Today the Toledo Symphony Orchestra is based here. After the Second World War, the collection grew steadily and was able to triple its holdings by 1970. In memory of Edward Libbey, valuable glass collections came to the museum in the 1960s and 70s. Today, courses on glass production are offered in our own glass blowing workshop.
In the early 1990s, Frank O. Gehry built the Center for the Visual Arts in the direct vicinity of the museum . This is where the library of the museum and the art section of the University of Toledo are located . In addition to teaching at the university, the Toledo Museum of Art also runs its own advanced training courses for adults and children.
The exhibition of glass objects owned by the museum was able to move into a newly built, glass pavilion in 2006, which was built according to plans by the Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima and the SANAA office .
Collections
The collections include 30,000 works of art from almost all parts of the world and from every era. In addition to African and Asian sculptures, there are objects from Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Etruscan times. In addition to furniture and ceramics, the holdings of the Department of Decorative Arts also include the reconstruction of a room from the castle of Chenailles and a cloister from a monastery in France. The sculpture collection shows its holdings up to 1945 and more recent works in a sculpture garden. European painting is represented by artists such as Thomas de Keyser , El Greco , Paul Gauguin , Hans Holbein the Younger , Vincent van Gogh , Jean-Honoré Fragonard , Claude Lorrain , Peter Paul Rubens , Eugène Delacroix , François Boucher , Paul Cézanne , Gustave Courbet , Jacques-Louis David , Piero di Cosimo , Henri Fantin-Latour , Jusepe de Ribera , Balthasar van der Ast , Rembrandt , Thomas Gainsborough .
American painting is represented primarily by William Merritt Chase , Thomas Cole , John Singleton Copley , Gilbert Stuart , Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington . The modern artists shown in the museum include Edward Hopper , Anselm Kiefer , Piet Mondrian , Amedeo Modigliani and Sol LeWitt .
Exhibited works
(Selection)
Peter Paul Rubens: The coronation of St. Catherine
JS Copley: Young girl with bird and dog
Winslow Homer: Sunlight on the Coast
Jan Steen: Farmers in front of an inn
Claude Monet: Water Lilies
Edouard Manet: Portrait of Antonin Proust
Van Gogh: Wheat Field
Thomas Cole: The Architect's Dream
- Sculptures
- Jaume Plensa : Mirror I and Mirror II , white painted stainless steel, each 377 × 235 × 245 cm from 2010.
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Coordinates: 41 ° 39 ′ 29 " N , 83 ° 33 ′ 34" W.