(Q1743116)

Upon his return home to the United States in 1946, Wittmann began a thirty-year career at the Toledo Museum of Art which included his appointment to Director in 1959. Under his leadership, the museum established internationally-ranked education programs, tripled its collection, and doubled its exhibition space. His keen eye and innate understanding of the art market guided acquisitions of some of the best American, Dutch, and seventeenth-century Italian and French paintings available. He organized numerous successful exhibitions, including France: The Splendid Century (1961) and The Age of Rembrandt (1966). In honor of his retirement in 1976, the museum presented Treasures for Toledo, a retrospective of his most notable acquisitions (English)

Brian Kennedy

start time

2010

1 reference

stated in

Art expert slams Toledo museum on sale of antiquities

reference URL

https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/art/2016/10/24/Art-expert-slams-Toledo-museum-nbsp-sale-of-nbsp-antiquities/stories/20161023245

Blake-More Godwin

start time

1926

end time

1959

1 reference

stated in

Dictionary of Art Historians

Dictionary of Art Historians ID

godwinb

quotation

Director of the Toledo Museum of Art. After graduating from the University of Missouri he received a Master's Degree from Princeton from the Department of Art and Archaeology. After marrying Molly Ohl, he joined the Toledo Museum of Art in 1916 rising to become its second director in 1926. Godwin made significant purchases for the Museum, including works by el Greco, Goya and . In 1946 he hired returning war veteran and "Monuments Man" Otto Wittmann (q.v.) as his assistant director. Godwin, who was alway more interested in the Museum's running than in acquisitions, recognized Wittmann's connoisseurship training. He turned acquititions at Toledo over to Wittmann. Godwin retired in 1959 and was succeeded by Wittmann. (English)

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grid.431244.4

28 May 2020

located in the administrative territorial entity

Toledo

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coordinate location

41°39'30"N, 83°33'34"W

1 reference

reference URL

https://www.toledomuseum.org/about/contact-us

member of

North American Reciprocal Museum Association

1 reference

reference URL

https://narmassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/NARM_FALL-2022.pdf

retrieved

3 October 2022

Ohio Museums Association

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reference URL

https://www.ohiomuseums.org/Public/Public/Ohio_Museums_Guide.aspx

retrieved

13 April 2024

Association of Midwest Museums

1 reference

archive URL

https://web.archive.org/web/20160923131950/http://www.midwestmuseums.org/member_listing.html

2011

2013

1 reference

https://web.archive.org/web/20240421090914/https://traffickingculture.org/app/uploads/2017/07/Museum-Ethics-and-the-Toledo-Museum-of-Art-Tsirogiannis-JAC-Spring-2017.pdf

quotation

Repatriations to Italy and Germany 2011-2013 (English)

deaccessioning

point in time

2022

1 reference

stated in

The Toledo Museum of Art Will Deaccession Three Impressionist Paintings That Could Fetch More Than $60 Million at Sotheby’s

reference URL

https://news.artnet.com/market/toledo-museum-deaccessioning-at-auction-2098238

quotation

When Steve Cohen’s 1932 Picasso comes up for sale at Sotheby’s on May 17, it will be joined on the auction block by three Impressionist paintings from the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA), which could net as much as $64 million—the largest institutional deaccession of the season.The consignment includes Paul Cézanne’s Clairière (The Glade) from around 1895, estimated at $30 million to $40 million; Henri Matisse’s Fleurs ou Fleurs devant un portrait (1923), estimated at $15 million to $20 million; and a late Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Nu s’essuyant (1923), estimated at $3 million to $4 million. All three are guaranteed by Sotheby’s. (English)

repatriation

point in time

2012

1 reference

reference URL

https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/ohn/news/2012/20junekalpis.html

title

U.S. Attorney's Office - U.S. Department of Justice (English)

language of work or name

English

retrieved

6 September 2024

author name string

U. S. Attorney's Office (USAO)

quotation

Following a January 2010 lead from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigation’s (ICE HSI) Rome attaché, Cleveland-based HSI special agents launched an investigation into the true provenance of the artifact. Working closely with law enforcement officials in Italy, HSI agents were able to definitively establish that the documentation provided to the Toledo Museum of Art was falsified and part of a larger scheme by the Becchinas to sell illegitimately obtained cultural property. Gianfranco Becchina was convicted in February 2011 of illicitly dealing in antiquities by a court in Rome.The Kalpis will be formally repatriated in an official ceremony later this year with the Toledo Museum of Art, federal officials and representatives from the Italian governmen (English)

architect

Frank Gehry

1 reference

reference URL

https://arquitecturaviva.com/works/pabellon-de-vidrio-museo-de-arte-de-toledo-ohio---4