Tuesday 16 December 2008Outstanding survey of six thousand years of art from one of America’s leading museums

Published in association with the Cincinnati Art Museum in May 2009, Cincinnati Art Museum:Collection Highlights, features some of the finest art and artifacts from around the world.

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 world class Museum, featuring pieces from the United States, Europe, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Asia, the Middle-East, and Africa, with examples of painting and sculpture, decorative art, prints, drawings, photographs, fashion and textiles.

Historically, international art and artifacts were acquired both as models for local industry, and to enhance the value of the Museum, resulting in a truly encyclopedic collection. Featured here are works by Old Masters such as Botticelli, Titian, Rubens; Gainsborough’s famous portrait of Ann Ford, paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso, Renoir, Derain, Modigliani, Chagall, a wide range of objects from the Americas, Asia, Africa, Classical Greece and Rome and Egypt, plus recent acquisitions of contemporary art including a portrait of Pete Rose by Andy Warhol specially commissioned by the Museum.

During the19th-century Cincinnati enjoyed a reputation for encouraging local painters, decorative artists, furniture makers, sculptors and dressmakers. Among the gems of the Museum are paintings by Cincinnati artists Robert S. Duncanson, Frank Duveneck, and John Henry Twachtman. The strong connection between local art and industry, notably in the Arts and Crafts tradition, has led to the museum’s remarkable holding of 19th- and early 20th- century decorative art. Featured works include a bedroom suite from the Mitchell and Rammelsberg 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, and one of the finest collections from the renowned Cincinnati Rookwood Pottery Company, (1880-1967) founded by Longworth’s daughter, Maria Longworth Nichols Storer.

The Authors:
Aaron Betsky is the Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum; Catalogue entries by the curators of the Cincinnati Art Museum

392 pages, 254 x 178mm (7 x 10 in.)
340 colour and 20 b&w illustrations, hardback
Text: Up to 99,500 words
ISBN: 978-1-904832-53-9 (13 digit)
1-904832-53-9 (10 digit)
Price: US$49.95/UK£24.95
Publication date: May 2009
Publisher: D. Giles Limited, London

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Incorporated in 1881 as the Cincinnati Museum Association, in May 1886, a permanent art museum building was completed and was heralded worldwide as “The Art Palace of the West.” Generous donations from a number of prominent Cincinnatians grew the collection to thousands of objects, which soon necessitated the addition of the first of several Art Museum expansions. In 1993, a $13 million project restored the grandeur of the Art Museum’s interior architecture and uncovered long-hidden architectural details. By the turn of the twenty-first century, the Art Museum’s collection numbered over 60,000 objects and, today, is the largest in the state of Ohio.