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- The museum opened on June 6, 1916, after many years of planning. Its creation was made possible by Cleveland industrialists Hinman B. Hurlbut, John Huntington, and Horace Kelley, all of whom bequeathed money specifically for an art museum, as well as by Jeptha H. Wade II, whose Wade Park property was donated for the site.
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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. [6] The neoclassical, white Georgian Marble, Beaux-Arts building was constructed on the southern edge of Wade Park, at the cost of $1.25 million. [7]
Frederic Allen Whiting was the museum’s first director from 1913 to 1930. An authority on handicrafts, he believed in the museum as an educational institution. Under his leadership, the museum established the education department and a wide variety of programs for children and adults.
Cleveland Museum of Art, major American museum that houses one of the country’s finest art collections. It was incorporated in 1913 and opened in 1916. The museum has objects from virtually all major cultures and periods. Highlights include part of the Guelph Treasure and the Apollo Sauroktonos.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
The 1913 founding of the Cleveland Museum of Art by leading Cleveland industrialists was the result of a philanthropic vision similar to that of the Wade family, who had donated the land for the museum and surrounding park.
Oct 16, 2012 · The Cleveland Museum of Art is one of the city's enduring assets and a legacy of its history as an industrial powerhouse. Like other American temples for art built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries'in Detroit, St. Louis, Toledo'this Neoclassical pavilion, completed in 1916 on a rise overlooking a verdant Olmsted Brothers park, reflects ...
Feb 22, 2020 · William Mathewson Milliken was the director of the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1930 to 1958. Before becoming the director he organized the museum’s first May Show. It later became a juried exhibition for regional artists annually held at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1919 to 1993.
