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- On March 16, 1899, Ranney sent off articles of incorporation to formally establish the Cleveland Museum of Art. He was elected as the first President of the museum that May.
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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.
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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 Cleveland architects Benjamin Hubbell and W. Dominick Benes designed the museum, which opened in June 1916.
Nov 3, 2014 · The founding of the Cleveland Museum was the result of three trusts created through the estates of John P Huntington, Horace Kelley, and Hinman B. Hurlbut, all of which provided for the building of an art museum in Cleveland and would lead to J. H. Wade donating additional land in Wade Park for building the museum in 1892.
Founding of the Cleveland Museum of Art Hinman B. Hurlbut (July 20, 1819 – March 22, 1884) was an American industrialist. A native of New York, Hurlbut relocated to Cleveland , Ohio, in 1837 and started a career privately practicing law in Massillon, Ohio after being admitted to the bar in 1839.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is one of the foremost art museums in the world, having outstanding collections of Pre-Columbian, medieval European, and Asian art. It opened to the public in 1916 on Jeptha H. Wade's Wade Park property in University Circle.
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.
