Collection companion
By: Toledo Museum of Art ; with contributions by Brian P. Kennedy, Tami Landis, Adam Levine, Courtney Macklin, Lawrence W. Nichols, Halona Norton-Westbrook, Paula Reich, Robin Reisenfeld, Diane C. Wright
Contributors: Kennedy, Brian P., 1961-
Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781785511783
Subjects: Catalogs; Art; Toledo Museum of Art
Description: "Supported by devoted and generous members since it was chartered in 1901, the Toledo Museum of Art has assembled an extraordinary art collection to become on of America's greatest museums. On its forty-acre campus visitors discover three core buildings (two by Pritzker Prize-winning architects), more than forty galleries, the Peristlye concert hall, a sculpture garden, a children's play area, a tree-filled landscape, and classrooms, glass hot shops, and studios for artists and students young and old. Readers of this book will enjoy a virtual experience of visiting the Museum's galleries as they encounter paintings and sculptures presented in harmony with superb examples of tableware, jewelry, furniture, prints, and photographs, as well as thematic groupings exploring the Museum's Art of Seeing Art method of teaching visual literacy skills. The Toledo Museum is world-famous for its Old Master paintings and its comprehensive representation of the art of glass. It is also home to small but outstanding collections of art from Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, prints, photographs, and artists' books; decorative arts and design from the Middle Ages to the 21st century; and contemporary art from around the world. The selections in this book highlight works by such significant artists as Exekias, Albrecht Dürer, El Greco, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Élisabeth Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Thomas Gainsborough, J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Cole, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Pablo Picasso, Edward Weston, Hiroshi Yoshida, Edward Hopper, Constantin Brancusi, Joan Miró, Gordon Parks, Elizabeth Catlett, Georgia O'Keeffe, Romare Bearden, Frank Stella, Alice Neel, Bill Viola, Kara Walker, Dale Chihuly, and Kehinde Wiley."--front flap
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Art of the highest quality: a history of the Toledo Museum of Art and its collection; title: The art of seeing art; title: A museum in a park; title: Collection highlights; title: Art of Asia: 3rd to 19th century; title: Symbols: meaning in material; title: Art of Sub-Sahara Africa: 16th to 19th century; title: Art of the ancient Mediterranean: 13th century BCE to 4th century CE; title: Form: the human body; title: Art of the Near East: 8th century BCE to 14th century CE; title: Art of Europe: 10th to 17th century; title: Symbols: object lessons; title: Art of Europe and America: 18th to 19th century; title: Ideas: telling tales; title: World art: 20th to 21st century; title: Ideas: Isolation & Anxiety.