Cincinnati Art MuseumCollection Highlights
Published by GILES in association with Cincinnati Art Museum
Release Date — March 2009 (UK and USA)
Dimensions — 392 pages, 254 × 178 mm (7 × 10 in.), portrait
Illustrations — 340 colour and 20 b&w illustrations
Hardback price — UK£25.00 / US$49.95
ISBN — 1-904832-53-9
ISBN — 978-1-904832-53-9
Book Details (pdf) — Cincinnati-AI-LR.pdf
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Features highlights from one of the major mid-western museums, including works by Botticelli, Titian, Rubens, Picasso, Renoir, Derain, Modigliani and Chagall
Features details from the mural by Miró for the Cincinnati Terrace Plaza Hotel, an example of the New International style
Includes items from the internationally renowned collection of costumes and textiles, including haute couture outfits by Dior, Balenciaga and Lanvin, and by prominent local dressmakers
About the Book
As one of the oldest art institutions in the United States, the Cincinnati Art Museum has an unparalleled collection of over
60,000 works spanning six thousand years. This beautifully illustrated new volume highlights over 300 works of art from
this unique collection, featuring examples of painting and sculpture, decorative art, prints, drawings, photographs,
costumes and textiles from Egypt, Greece, Rome, Asia and the Middle-East, Africa, North and South America and Europe.
An historical emphasis on collecting pieces representing the local Aesthetic movement has led to a remarkable collection of 19th and early 20th-century decorative art. These include a bedroom suite from the Mitchell and Rammerlsberg Furniture Co. (1847–81), an 1850’s carved oak mantel by Henry and William Fry, made for Joseph Longworth, one of the founders of the Museum, a vase from the Cincinnati Rookwood Pottery Company, (1880–1967) founded by Longworth’s daughter, and a striking pair of Art Deco skyscraper bookcases by Paul Frankl.
Divided into 15 sections, interspersed throughout with an ongoing historical survey of the Museum, each of the highlighted works is accompanied by a discursive entry and interesting or unusual facts relating to selected works, or the Art Museum
