Tag: LeMaxie Glover
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Crucifixes of Artists of Toledo
The commonality of LeMaxie Glover, Adam Grant, Carroll Simms, William H. Machen and their crucifixion artwork. clockwise from the top: LeMaxie Glover, 1968 (1916 – 1984) LeMaxie Glover made this crucifix for the baptistry at St. Richards Church in Swanton, Ohio. It is carved out of the finest walnut. LeMaxie Glover was born in Macon, […]
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Museum paints a divisive narrative
Here’s what Toledo Museum’s Belonging and Community Engagement Director Rhonda Sewell said, in regard to the museum’s politically motivated DEAI plan, “What it’s saying is that now we are not only going to look at maybe one ethnicity or one race or one region for art history’s sake in our collection.” The new museum administrators […]
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Toledo Museum of Art’s Controversial Unconscionable Tragic High-Profile Deaccessions
“These works of art were clear choices for the Museum to deaccession, due to very similar and/or higher quality works by the same artists represented in TMA’s deep European collection,” a museum representative told Hyperallergic. Hyperallergic.com, Elaine Velie, April 27, 2022 Controversial Unconscionable Deaccessions by the Toledo Museum of Art a timeline journal of the unconscionable […]
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Goodbye Matisse Renoir and Cézanne
A tribute to the Mrs. McKelvys of the Toledo Museum of Art From the introduction of The Collection of Mrs. C. Lockhart McKelvy Written by Otto Wittmann, Director, Toledo Museum of Art, 1964 Margaret Gosline McKelvy was one of Toledo’s great benefactors, yet she was so modest and so reticent that few knew all that she […]
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LeMaxie Glover’s Crucifix
LeMaxie Glover, 1916 – 1984 Le Maxie Glover was born in Macon, Georgia in 1916. He received a MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He showed at the Toledo Museum of Art in the Toledo Area Artists Exhibitions from 1956 to 1964, and the Black Artists of Toledo Exhibitions in 1973 and […]