page_title: Horace Kelley
section_title: Philanthropy
hierarchical_section_title: Horace Kelley / Philanthropy
caption_attribution_description: Inscription about the founders of the museum, in the Ames Atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The original Beaux-Arts was designed by the architectural firm of Hubbell &amp; Benes, and opened in June 1916. A Neoclassical addition, designed by the firm of Hayes and Ruth, opened in March 1958 against the original building's north side. The building extended toward the north again in 1971 with a Modernist addition designed by Marcel Breuer. A west wing, designed by the firm of Dalton, van Dijk, Johnson &amp; Partners, opened in 1983. In 2001, the museum was radically changed by architect Rafael Viñoly. The 1958 structure, which had never really worked well, was demolished. The courtyard this demolition created was covered with a glass-roofed atrium. Gallery and museum store space was added to the &quot;interior&quot; wall of the Breuer wing, an east wing was constructed, and a &quot;wrap-around&quot; connecting the east and west wings and enfolding the north wing helped link it all together. The east wing opened in 2009, and the north wing and atrium in 2012. The west wing opened on January 2, 2014. The atrium was named for Cleveland businessman and philanthropist B. Charles &quot;Chuck&quot; Ames and his wife, Joyce &quot;Jay&quot; Eichhorn Ames, who donated $20 million to the museum's reconstruction. Ames began his career with the consulting firm McKinsey &amp; Co., and then was senior operating partner and vice chairman of the investment firm Clayton, Dubilier &amp; Rice. He was also CEO and chairman of Uniroyal Goodrich, CEO of Acme Cleveland Corp., and CEO, president, and chairman of Reliance Electric. The Ames have given away roughly $45 million since 2008.
context_page_description: Horace A. Kelley was an American industrialist and philanthropist.
  Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Kelley was raised on Kelleys Island after the death of his father in 1823. Inheriting a fortune of real estate as well as ownership of most of Kelleys Island from his family, Kelley held interests in limestone and lumber on the island. Upon selling these interests in 1845 and returning to Cleveland, he worked as an investor and manager of real estate properties in both Cleveland and throughout Ohio.
  Through his will, Kelley left funds for acquiring land for a fire proof art gallery and an art school that would help found the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1916. He is considered to be one of the founders of the museum along with John Huntington, Hinman Hurlbut, and Jeptha Wade II.
context_section_description: Kelley's interest in art originated from his wife's passion for art. He made his first trip to Europe in 1868 for health reasons, where he was first exposed to art museums. He made four more trips to Europe and collected artwork that would later become part of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
  Eight days before his death, Kelley signed a will that would leave a majority of his estate for an art gallery. Through his will, an excess of half a million dollars was bequeathed to acquire land for a fire proof art gallery and an art school, part of which would help to establish the Cleveland Museum of Art. He viewed the art gallery as a place that would attract gifts of artwork and sums of money, suggesting to name the gallery the "National Gallery of Fine Arts". He conditioned that "no work of art unless of acknowledged merit" be admitted into the gallery. He named three trustees to his estate: his cousin Alfred S. Kelley, judge James M. Jones, and Henry C. Ranney, a lawyer and trustee of the estates of Cleveland Museum of Art founders Hinman Hurlbut and John Huntington.
  After Kelley's death, these trustees helped to establish a nonprofit corporation that incorporated the funds of his estate and was named the Cleveland Museum of Art, in 1899. The corporation was formed for the purpose of "promoting the fine arts" and establishing and maintaining an art museum. The corporation faced legal difficulties due to the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, another corporation formed through the will of John Huntington, which had also independently provided funds for the purpose of establishing an art museum. In 1913, the two corporations finally reached an agreement to establish a single art museum in cooperation. Under the agreement, the name of the Kelley corporation was changed to the Horace Kelley Art Foundation, while a separate corporation responsible for the establishing the museum was formed and named the Cleveland Museum of Art. This new corporation, under the combined resources of the Kelley and Huntington estates, commenced the construction of the museum in May 1913, and formally opened it to the public on June 6, 1916.
  Kelley is considered one of the founders of the Cleveland Museum of Art, along with John Huntington, Hinman Hurlbut, and Jeptha Wade II.
caption: The Cleveland Museum of Art displays its founders names on a plaque in the Ames Family Atrium
exif: {"Image Make": "NIKON CORPORATION", "Image Model": "NIKON D7100", "Image XResolution": "600", "Image YResolution": "600", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7.1 (Windows)", "Image DateTime": "2016:11:04 09:32:18", "Image ExifOffset": "218", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "978", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "10180", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/160", "EXIF FNumber": "63/10", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Unidentified", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "200", "EXIF SensitivityType": "Recommended Exposure Index", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0230", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2016:09:23 13:24:04", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2016:09:23 13:24:04", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "915241/125000", "EXIF ApertureValue": "331919/62500", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "5", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "55", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "20", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "20", "EXIF FocalPlaneXResolution": "83841555/32768", "EXIF FocalPlaneYResolution": "83841555/32768", "EXIF FocalPlaneResolutionUnit": "3", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CVAPattern": "[2, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2]", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "82", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "None", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0", "EXIF BodySerialNumber": "2534693", "EXIF LensSpecification": "[18, 55, 7/2, 28/5]", "EXIF LensModel": "18.0-55.0 mm f/3.5-5.6"}