Art museum in Cleveland, OH, housing a comprehensive collection with significant holdings in areas including Pre-Columbian art, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Southeast Asian art from prehistory to the present, medieval European art, American art, and European painting and sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) was established in 1913 when one of its four founders, Jeptha Homer Wade II (1857–1926), heir to the Western Union Telegraph fortune, donated the land for an art museum intended “for the benefit of all the people forever.” The other three founders, John P. Huntington (1832–1893), Horace Kelley (1819–1890), and Hinman B. Hurlbut (1819–1884), each made separate bequests in their wills for the founding of an art museum in Cleveland. When the museum first opened to the public in 1916, Cleveland was in the midst of a period of rapid industrial expansion. Wealth from the steel, oil, chemical, and automotive industries supported the museum in its early years....
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Cleveland Museum of Art
Rachel Hunter Himes
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Golden, Thelma
Josie Roland Hodson
(b Queens, New York, Sept 22, 1965).
American curator of visual art and museum director. She received her BA in 1987 in Art History and African American studies from Smith College, Northampton, MA, where she was a student of James Baldwin. Early in her career, Golden was a curatorial fellow at the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 1988 Golden was appointed as a curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
In 1989 Golden was named Visual Arts Director at Jamaica Arts Center in Queens (now Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning), working under Dr. Kellie Jones. In 1991 Golden returned to the Whitney Museum, where she remained until 1997, becoming the first African American to hold a curatorial position at the institution. This appointment launched her preeminent career as a curator of modern and contemporary art and, in particular, as a champion for Black visual artists globally. During her tenure, she was one of four curators of the landmark ...
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United States: Museums
A. Deirdre Robson
In the USA the development of the art museum has led to the existence of a museum in almost every major town. It has also grown from being a repository of an eclectic collection of curiosities to a specifically designed building, its commission often offering a prestigious opportunity for national and international architects (see Museum, §II). The general organizational patterns of museums in the USA were laid down in the 19th century and changed little over time. There are two basic kinds of museums, both effectively created by the wish of prominent citizens to commemorate civic and personal pride. The first is the institution initially organized by a committee of prominent and wealthy citizens and/or collectors and run by a board of trustees. A variant on this is the museum that was founded by an art association, which might have been stimulated by a local art exhibition, for example the ...
