The Toledo Museum of Art is one of America's great museums. Supported by devoted and generous members since it was chartered in 1901, the Museum has grown to be a palace for the arts. On its thirty-six acre campus, visitors discover three core buildings, more than forty galleries, the Peristyle concert hall, a sculpture garden, and classrooms and studios for artists young and old. This book celebrates the heart of the Museum the art collection. The 300 masterworks featured in this book honor more than a century of collecting. The Toledo Museum is world-famous for its Old Master paintings and its comprehensive representation of the art of glass. Less well-known but no less outstanding are its choice collections of art from Asia, Africa, and the ancient Mediterranean. Visitors to the galleries and readers of this book will enjoy a virtual journey from the Ancient World through Modernism as they encounter paintings and sculptures arranged in harmony with superb examples of tableware, jewelry, furniture, prints, and photographs. The selections in this book highlight works by such famous artists as Exekias, Dürer, El Greco, Rembrandt, Rubens, Fragonard, Gainsborough, David, Turner, Cole, Courbet, Monet, Degas, van Gogh, Steichen, Picasso, Hopper, Brancusi, Miró, Chihuly, and Kiefer. Recent additions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art suggest that Toledo s second century of collecting will be as illustrious as its first. Each of the 300 works of art, including the Museum s three stunningly beautiful and strikingly different buildings, is illustrated in color, with brief, informative comments. Index

Toledo Museum of Art Masterworks

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Lawrence W. Nichols

Don Bacigalupi

Amy Gilman

Edward T. Hill

Sandra E. Knudsen

Thomas Loeffler

Andrea M. Mall

Carolyn M. Putney

Richard H. Putney

Paula Reich

Arts & Photography

Toledo Museum of Art

Degas & the Dance. Toledo Museum of Art

Michael Lang

Marnie Hull

Today, it seems astonishing that the work of Edouard Manet (1832-83), the master French painter, was controversial in his day. His subversive handling of both paint and subject matter, coupled with his detached gaze, shocked contemporaries--but established him as the father of modern painting. This remarkable book, published to accompany an important traveling exhibition, explores the artist's stylistic evolution in the context of his portraiture. The relationship between Manet's portraits and his genre scenes is presented for the first time, illustrated by such masterpieces as The Luncheon (In the Studio) of 1868, and In the Conservatory (M. and Mme. Guillemet) of 1879. Leading authorities consider such topics as the influence of 17th-century Dutch painters, parallels with Renoir, and links with early photography. Praise for Manet: Lush portraits as arresting today as they were when they were first exhibited. --Vogue MaryAnne Stevens is director of academic affairs at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Colin B. Bailey is chief curator of the Frick Collection, New York. Stephane Guegan is a curator at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris. Leah Lehmbeck is associate curator at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena. Lawrence W. Nichols is curator of European Painting and Sculpture before 1900 at the Toledo Museum of Art.

Manet: Portraying Life

Stéphane Guégan

MaryAnne Stevens

Colin B. Bailey

Leah Lehmbeck

Carol M. Armstrong

Sarah Lea

Reference

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