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Title	Charles Phelps Taft and Anna Sinton Taft Portraits
Subject	Business and Labor Ohio Women Arts and Entertainment
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	These two oil-on-canvas portraits are of husband and wife Charles Phelps Taft and Anna Sinton Taft. They were painted during the last weeks of 1902 by the Spanish painter Raimundo de Madrazo Garreta. Both portraits measure approximately 49" x 38" (124.46 x 96.52 cm). During their 56-year marriage, Charles Phelps Taft (1843-1929) and Anna Sinton Taft (1852 circa-1931) left an indelible stamp on Cincinnati's artistic and civic life. They bequeathed their house and art collection consisting of nearly 700 examples of Old Master paintings, Chinese porcelains, and European decorative arts to the people of Cincinnati. In 1932, their residence opened as a public museum administered by the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts. The Tafts helped save the neighborhood around their home from industrial and commercial development. They developed Lytle Park as a playground, built the Anna Louise Inn for young workingwomen, the rectory for Christ Church Cathedral, the University Club, and the Phelps Apartment building. They bought the historic house that they leased to the Literary Club for 99 years at one dollar per year, renewable forever. Charles Taft was publisher of the Times-Star newspaper and served on many boards, including the Union Board of High Schools of Cincinnati and the Associated Press. He was the third president of the Cincinnati Museum Association. The Tafts made substantial gifts to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the University of Cincinnati. The May Festival and summer operas owed their existence largely to Anna Sinton and Charles Phelps Taft. Mrs. Taft and her friend, Mary Emery, saved the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens from extinction. Upon his death in 1929, Charles Taft was remembered as "an internationally known publisher and philanthropist, a quiet man who had helped to spread the fame of Cincinnati." Mrs. Taft was recognized for "the high plane on which she strove to place our community in music, education, and fine arts." Raimundo de Madrazo Garreta (1841-1920) was a member of an important artistic dynasty that included his grandfather and his father, and that helped to shape the course of Spanish art during the nineteenth century. In his maturity, Madrazo received many commissions for portraits from patrons in such cities as New York, Philadelphia, and Buenos Aires. In addition to the Tafts, his many prominent American patrons and sitters included Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont.
Creator	de Madrazo Garreta, Raimundo, 1841-1920
Date of Original	1902
Source	Audiovisual material 3.1931, 4.1931
Submitting Institution	Taft Museum of Art
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om1714_1913093_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1714_1913093_001.tif
Image Height	3000
Image Width	2357
File Size	893.081 KB

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