Toledo Museum of Art. The Toledo Museum of Art is an internationally known art museum located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio, United States.
It houses a collection of more than 30,000 objects. The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901, and moved to its current location, a Greek revival building designed by Edward B. Green and Harry W. Wachter, in 1912.
The main building was expanded twice, in the 1920s and 1930s. Other buildings were added in the 1990s and 2006.
Effective July 1, 2019 John Stanley is serving as the interim director as the board conducts an international search for the 10th director. The museum holds major collections of glass art and of 19th-and 20th-century European and American art, as well as small but distinguished collections of Renaissance, Greek, Roman and Japanese art.
Notable individual works include Peter Paul Rubens's The Crowning of Saint Catherine; Fragonard's Blind Man's Bluff; Vincent van Gogh's Houses at Auvers; minor works by Rembrandt and El Greco; and modern works by Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore, and Sol LeWitt. Other artists in the permanent collection include Holbein, Cole, Cropsey, Turner, Tissot, Degas, Monet, Cezanne, Matisse, Miro, Picasso, Calder, Bearden, Close, and Kiefer. The museum bought the Rubens painting, The Crowning of Saint Catherine, from Albert Koppel in 1950. Rubens had originally painted it
It houses a collection of more than 30,000 objects. The museum was founded by Toledo glassmaker Edward Drummond Libbey in 1901, and moved to its current location, a Greek revival building designed by Edward B. Green and Harry W. Wachter, in 1912.
The main building was expanded twice, in the 1920s and 1930s. Other buildings were added in the 1990s and 2006.
Effective July 1, 2019 John Stanley is serving as the interim director as the board conducts an international search for the 10th director. The museum holds major collections of glass art and of 19th-and 20th-century European and American art, as well as small but distinguished collections of Renaissance, Greek, Roman and Japanese art.
Notable individual works include Peter Paul Rubens's The Crowning of Saint Catherine; Fragonard's Blind Man's Bluff; Vincent van Gogh's Houses at Auvers; minor works by Rembrandt and El Greco; and modern works by Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore, and Sol LeWitt. Other artists in the permanent collection include Holbein, Cole, Cropsey, Turner, Tissot, Degas, Monet, Cezanne, Matisse, Miro, Picasso, Calder, Bearden, Close, and Kiefer. The museum bought the Rubens painting, The Crowning of Saint Catherine, from Albert Koppel in 1950. Rubens had originally painted it
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