Collection companion

"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