Artists of Toledo

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  • TMA’s disgraceful national review

    TMA’s disgraceful national review

    The TMA collection is splendid, with encyclopedic range and surprising depth. But, sadly, the museum seems intent on making race and grievance, not art, the center of visitors’ experience there. | By Brian T. Allen https://t.co/VYwIT2dZCu — National Review (@NRO) August 3, 2023 Wow! Read this: Toledo Museum: A Treasure Trove of the Best – […]

  • Who bought our Cezanne, The Glade?

    Who bought our Cezanne, The Glade?

    It was the gift of Edward Drummond Libbey.  A one-year anniversary look-back.  Edward Drummond Libbey and Florence Scott Libbey gave their money to fund and start the Toledo Museum of Art, and to keep it going with stipulations made in their wills and trusts. The museum sold paintings that the Libbey Endowment paid for and […]

  • Museum shrinking away from founders

    Museum shrinking away from founders

    The Toledo 2-Mile Radius Museum of Art It’s Edward Drummond Libbey’s birthday today – he was born on April 17, 1854. Some people care – like the alumni of the high school named after Mr. Libbey that was torn down in 2012 and never replaced, and the runners of the “Florence Scott Libbey 419 Race” […]

  • A Toledo picture

    A Toledo picture

    A Toledo picture…. Yesterday and today What is a Toledo picture, exactly? The museum’s first curator of European art, William Hutton called a “Toledo picture” a painting worthy of the Toledo Museum of Art, a museum that owns what is said to be the very best Peter Paul Rubens in the country. A Toledo picture […]

  • Adam Levine’s Toledo Museum of Art

    Adam Levine’s Toledo Museum of Art

    An assessment of the offerings at Adam Levine’s Toledo Museum of Art two years into the five-year plan In 2021, Adam Levine, the new director of the Toledo Museum of Art, announced that he was increasing the museum’s annual budget by $2 million while reducing the draw from the Libbey Endowment. The rules of the […]

  • The Artists of Toledo Report

    Remember when The Toledo Museum of Art sold our three famous French Impressionist paintings for 59 million dollars – Adam Levine claiming it was to buy diverse art, because their data showed a lack of diversity? “A collections audit indicated the greatest imbalances exist across gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, nationality and geography, and […]

  • Proposal to hire art teachers at the Toledo Museum of Art

    We’d like to have adult and children’s art classes back. I hope this proposal helps. Hire four teachers full-time. They teach one or two adult art classes four days a week at the Toledo Museum of Art School of Design. The adult classes are ceramics, metals, painting, printmaking, and life drawing. In the afternoons, the […]

  • Remembering Edith Franklin on her 100th

    Remembering Edith Franklin on the 100th anniversary of her birth, December 2, 2022. Can you feel it – Edith Franklin is in the air. No wonder, it’s her Centennial. I met Edith early on when I was building this website about the historical artists of Toledo. At the age of 87, she was majorly downsizing, […]