The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio · founded 1913 · free
One of the great encyclopedic collections in America, and a pioneer of open access.
Independent visitor guide by Momentable. Artworks credited to the museum that holds them.
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About The Cleveland Museum of Art
Founded in 1913 by the Cleveland industrialists Hinman Hurlbut, John Huntington and Horace Kelley, the museum opened in 1916 in a neoclassical building by Hubbell & Benes, and has never charged for its permanent collection. Marcel Breuer added the North Wing in 1971, and a $350 million rebuilding by Rafael Viñoly, finished in 2013, wrapped the whole thing around a glass-roofed atrium. In 2019 it put roughly 30,000 works online under Creative Commons Zero, free for anyone to use.
What to see
If you have one hour, spend it on these.
From the collection
La Vie
Picasso painted it in 1903, at the end of his Blue Period.
From the collection
The Thinker
Rodin’s cast, still shown with the damage from the 1970 bombing.
From the collection
Stag at Sharkey’s
George Bellows’ 1909 prizefight, and the museum’s best-known American painting.
How the collection is divided
The Cleveland Museum of Art groups its holdings this way. Use it to choose which rooms you walk.
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Chinese art
Painting and objects of a depth few museums outside Asia hold.
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Japanese and Korean art
Screens, scrolls, ceramics and lacquer.
Indian and Southeast Asian art
Sculpture and painting across the subcontinent. None of these are in the Momentable archive yet.
Medieval art
The Guelph Treasure, ivories and reliquaries. None of these are in the Momentable archive yet.
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European art
Caravaggio and the old masters through the nineteenth century.
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Modern European art
Picasso’s La Vie, Monet, Van Gogh and Gauguin.
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American painting and sculpture
Bellows’ Stag at Sharkey’s among them.
Contemporary art
Work by living artists, shown in rotation. None of these are in the Momentable archive yet.
Greek and Roman art
Antiquities from the classical world. None of these are in the Momentable archive yet.
African art
Sculpture, masks and textiles. None of these are in the Momentable archive yet.
Pre-Columbian and Native North American art
The Americas before and after contact. None of these are in the Momentable archive yet.
Textiles and Islamic art
Carpets, silks and manuscript pages. None of these are in the Momentable archive yet.
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Prints
Five centuries of printmaking.
Drawings
Works on paper, rotated to protect them. None of these are in the Momentable archive yet.
Decorative art and design
Furniture, glass, silver and ceramics. None of these are in the Momentable archive yet.
Photography
The nineteenth century to now. None of these are in the Momentable archive yet.
Artists in the archive from this museum
Each name opens their work, and the museums that hold it.
Giapeco Caporali
95 in the archive
Kamisaka Sekka
72 in the archive
Aoki Shukuya
41 in the archive
Paul Gauguin
35 in the archive
Chen Hongshou
23 in the archive
Philippe de Lasalle
18 in the archive
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
17 in the archive
Tsubaki Chinzan
17 in the archive
Shibata Zeshin
15 in the archive
Hua Yan
14 in the archive
Kano Tan’yū
13 in the archive
George Inness
12 in the archive
From the collection
A selection of 40 works from The Cleveland Museum of Art, free to stream.
Plan your visit
Hours
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 10:00–17:00; Wednesday and Friday 10:00–21:00; closed Monday. Confirm on clevelandart.org.
Where
11150 East Boulevard, University Circle. RTA Red Line to Little Italy–University Circle.
On their site
Their Open Access collection browser at clevelandart.org/art/collection carries downloadable images.
Leaving? Stream one on your wall tonight.
The Cleveland Museum of Art works on your TV, phone, or tablet. Free to start.
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