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Toledo Museum of Art adds works of art to its collection Timothy O'Sullivan ( American, born Ireland 1840-1882), Officers, 1864, unmounted Albumen print, 7 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. Photo credit: Chris Ridgway, Toledo Museum of Art. TOLEDO, OH .-The Toledo Museum of Art has added a 21st-century painting by contemporary artist Xiaoze Xie, a Venetian/Ottoman circa 17th-century footed bowl with gold mounts and leather case, and a group of 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs to its storied collection. The works expand and enhance TMA’s holdings in these areas and diversify the convers...

This Art Exhibit Sends You To Spain On American Soil February 19, 2021 It seems somehow fitting, both as this publication’s resident art critic and as a half-Spaniard, that the first exhibition I’ve been able to visit and write about since COVID-19 lockdowns explores the phenomenon of Americans traveling to Spain: something I’ve been prevented from doing for nearly a year now. Whether you’re primarily interested in simply looking at beautiful works of art, or if you care to wade into the somewhat unexplored waters of Spain’s influence on American art of the 19th and early 20th centu...

Farther Afield: Art the Old-Fashioned Way Brian Allen Photograph courtesy of the Florence Academy of Art. I’ve been intrigued by the Florence Academy of Art in Italy for years. It’s a small, prestigious art school that revived the kind of education Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Abbott Handerson Thayer, and George de Forest Brush had, as well as hundreds of other Americans who studied in Paris in the late nineteenth century. It’s an atelier and draws on teaching principles once used in the best French art schools but also by the Old Masters. I visited in September. There are 130 s...

New curator Karl Willers joined the museum in November, replacing Patrick Shaw Cable, who died in April.

A Chinese Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) carved cinnabar lidded box sold for $81,250, an oil on canvas equestrian painting by John Frederick Herring (Britis