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Established in 1989 through a grant from the Gund Foundation, the primary mission of the archives is to collect, preserve, and make available records that document the role of the Cleveland Museum of Art in the social and cultural history of the local community and in the world of art.
The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded as a trust in 1913 with an endowment from prominent Cleveland industrialists Hinman Hurlbut, John Huntington, and Horace Kelley. [ 7 ] The neoclassical, white Georgian Marble, Beaux-Arts building was constructed on the southern edge of Wade Park, at the cost of $1.25 million. [ 8 ]
Jun 1, 2003 · Painted by French artist Charles Meynier in the last years of the 1700s, Apollo and the Muses depict the classical Greek muses of epic and lyrical poetry, eloquence, history, and astronomy.
A spate of influential art museum openings in the 1880s helped ignite local interest in securing a museum for Cleveland. In 1880 President Rutherford B. Hayes dedicated the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Jun 17, 2024 · The Ingalls Library and Museum Archives in the Cleveland Museum of Art is open to the public Tuesday to Friday, from 10:00am to 4:50pm. Ingalls is a closed stack, non-circulating library.
The first, which was built to the north of the museum and opened in 1958, was designed by the Cleveland firm of Hayes and Ruth and funded by Leonard C. Hanna, the museum’s most significant donor. Containing additional gallery space and a library, this stone-clad building (no longer extant) was a tasteful exercise in mainstream modernism.
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