Toledo Museum of Art

Collection

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, Cézanne, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Calder, Bearden, Close, and Kiefer.

Peristyle

The Peristyle, a 1,750-seat concert hall in the east wing, is the principal concert space for the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and hosts the museum's Masters series. Added in 1933, it was designed in classical style to match the museum's exterior. Seating is divided into floor and riser seating, with the riser seating arranged in a half-circle, similar to a Greek theater. At the back of the riser seating are 28 Ionic columns that give the concert hall its name.

A sculpture garden containing primarily postwar works was added in 2001; it runs in a narrow band along the museum's Monroe Street facade. (Earlier sculptures are on display in the interior).

Center for the Visual Arts and the Glass Pavilion

A Center for the Visual Arts, designed by Frank Gehry, was added in the 1990s. It includes the museum's library as well as studio, office, and classroom space for the art department of the University of Toledo.

In 2000, the museum chose the architectural firm of SANAA to design a new building to house the institution's glass collection. It was the firm's first commission in the United States. Front Inc. was appointed to assist the architects in developing technical concepts for the glass wall systems. Much of the $30 million Glass Pavilion's financing came through the largest public fundraising drive in Toledo's history. The building's curved glass walls were imported from China.

The 74,000-square foot Glass Pavilion opened in August 2006 to considerable critical acclaim. ArtNet described it as "a striking symbol of cultural power. Intended to give pride of place to the institution's collection of art glass." In his review for The New York Times, Nicolai Ouroussoff wrote, "Composed with exquisite delicacy, the pavilion's elegant maze of curved glass walls represents the latest monument to evolve in a chain extending back to the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles." Ouroussoff commented on the pavilion's relationship with the museum's other buildings: "The Glass Pavilion is part of a loosely knit complex that includes the Beaux-Arts-style art museum here and the University of Toledo's Center for the Visual Arts, designed by Frank Gehry. With its grand staircase leading up to a row of Ionic columns, the original museum is both a temple to art and a monument to the belief in high culture's ability to uplift the life of the worker. The new structure's low, horizontal form, fits in this context with remarkable delicacy, as if the architects hesitated to disturb the surroundings." The Pavilion is host to 700 public glass blowing exhibitions per year, as well as community events such as (Re)New Year's Days, inspired by art, yoga, movement, and meditation, and Art of the Cut, a celebration of Black barbers and their roles as artists and men's wellness advocates that was sponsored by ProMedica.

The building showcases the museum's original glass collection and several new works, including one prominent glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly.

Notable pieces

|File:Master of the Morrison Triptych - Morrison Triptych - Google Art Project.jpg|Master of the Morrison Triptych, c. 1500-1510 |File:Gentileschi, Artemisia - Lot and his Daughters - 1635-1638.jpg|Lot and His Daughters by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1635-1638 |File:Bartholomeus van der Helst - Self-Portrait - Google Art Project.jpg| Self-Portrait by Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1655 |File:Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Blind-Man’s Buff - Google Art Project.jpg|Blind Man's Bluff by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1750 |File:Niños del carretón de Francisco Goya.jpg|Children in a Chariot by Francisco Goya, 1778 |File:Jacques-Louis David - Oath of the Horatii - Google Art Project.jpg|Copy of Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii by his pupil Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, 1786 |File:Kitagawa Utamaro - Toji san bijin (Three Beauties of the Present Day)From Bijin-ga (Pictures of Beautiful Women), published by Tsutaya Juzaburo - Google Art Project.jpg|Three Beauties of the Present Day by Kitagawa Utamaro, 1793 |File:Portrait of Oliver Hazard Perry, 1818.jpg|Portrait of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry by Gilbert Stuart, 1818 |File:Arundel Mill and Castle ).jpg|Arundel Mill and Castle by John Constable, 1837. |File:Thomas Cole - Architect’s Dream - Google Art Project.jpg|The Architect's Dream by Thomas Cole, 1840 |File:Joseph Mallord William Turner - Campo Santo - WGA23179.jpg|Campo Santo, Venice by J.M.W. Turner, 1842 |File:Jasper Francis Cropsey - Starrucca Viaduct, Pennsylvania - Google Art Project.jpg|Starrucca Viaduct, Pennsylvania by Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1865 |File:Alfred Sisley - Aqueduct at Marly - Google Art Project.jpg|The Aqueduct at Marly by Alfred Sisley, 1874 |File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Road at Wargemont - Google Art Project.jpg|Road at Wargemont by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1879 |File:Édouard Manet - Antonin Proust - Google Art Project.jpg| Portrait of Antonin Proust by Édouard Manet, 1880 |File:Vincent van Gogh - Wheat Fields with Reaper, Auvers - Google Art Project.jpg|Wheat Fields with Reaper by Vincent van Gogh, 1888 |File:Vincent_van_Gogh_-Houses_at_Auvers-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|Houses at Auvers by Vincent van Gogh, 1890 |File:George Wesley Bellows - Bridge, Blackwell’s Island - Google Art Project.jpg|The Bridge, Blackwell's Island by George Bellows, 1909 |File:Paul Signac, Grand Canal (Venise).jpg|Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice (Signac) by Paul Signac, 1905 |File:Claude Monet - Water Lilies - Google Art Project.jpg|Water Lilies by Claude Monet, 1922

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