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Title	Cleveland Museum of Art Holden Gallery Photographs
Subject	Architecture Arts and Entertainment Galleries & museums Art museums
Place	Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	These six photographs show the Holden gallery, which was designed specifically to house the Renaissance Italian collection of Delia Holden, wife of Cleveland Plain Dealer owner Liberty Holden. Liberty Holden was also the president of the building committee for the Cleveland Museum of Art. These photographs measure 8" x 10" (20.32 x 25.40 cm). The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded by four prominent Cleveland industrialists and philanthropists: John Huntington, Hinman Hurlbut, Horace Kelley, and Jeptha Wade II. Huntington, Hurlbut, and Kelley each provided funds for an art gallery in their wills. The three estates had a common trustee in Henry Clay Ranney, one of Cleveland's leading attorneys. Ranney guided the process of reconciling the three estates to accomplish their common goal of establishing an art museum, and the Cleveland Museum of Art was incorporated in 1913. Wade donated the land upon which the museum stands. The four founders were not only responsible for financing the museum building, but also left either significant collections of art work or endowments for the purchase of art work that continue to sustain the museum. A building committee was established in 1905. The Cleveland firm of Hubbell and Benes was hired as architects. The firm is noted for a number of Cleveland landmarks including the West Side Market, the Cleveland School of Art building, and the Wade Memorial Chapel in Lake View Cemetery. For the art museum, Hubbell and Benes envisioned a monumental classical building that would in itself be a work of art. Early plans included provisions for the museum to expand into several classical pavilions. Although limited by the building committee's one million dollar construction cap, the building project was the most significant in Cleveland at the time. The final plans for the museum provided for a two-story structure. The lower level housed offices, conference rooms, receiving and shipping rooms, classrooms, a library, and lecture hall. All exhibition galleries were on the second floor. The arrangement was simple and symmetrical. Completed in 1916, the inaugural exhibition opened on June 6, 1916. Over the years the museum grew to a complex of four buildings. The 1916 building, facing Euclid Avenue over the Fine Arts Garden originally designed by the firm of Frederick Law Olmstead, remains its heart.
Creator	Cleveland Museum of Art
Date of Original	1916 circa
Collection	Records of the Construction of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Cleveland Museum of Art
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
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om2412_2820983_039
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	Om2412_2820983_039.tif
Image Height	1960
Image Width	2464
File Size	918.563 KB

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