Public domainThe Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
Caravaggio
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio · Founded 1913
Picasso's La Vie and a cast of Rodin's Thinker, free to everyone, in Ohio. It has never charged for the permanent collection, not once since it opened in 1916.
- 66,500+
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- 1913
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Watch it nowWhat to see
The Cleveland Museum of Art is known for a Picasso from the end of his Blue Period, a cast of Rodin’s Thinker that still carries the damage from a 1970 bombing, and the prizefight George Bellows painted in 1909. Start with these.
La Vie
Picasso painted it in 1903, at the end of his Blue Period.
The Thinker
Rodin’s cast, still shown with the damage from the 1970 bombing.
Stag at Sharkey’s
George Bellows’ 1909 prizefight, and the museum’s best-known American painting.
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew
Caravaggio
Caravaggio, around 1607, painted in Naples and lit like a stage.
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons
Turner watched Parliament burn in 1834 and painted it twice; this is Cleveland’s.
Twilight in the Wilderness
Frederic Church, 1860, an American sky on the eve of the Civil War.
The collections
Cleveland organises its holdings across sixteen curatorial departments, unusually deep in Asian and medieval art for an American museum. The 2013 rebuilding by Rafael Viñoly wrapped them all around a glass-roofed atrium, so the galleries read as one continuous walk.
Chinese art
Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Peony) · Zhang Ruoai
Painting and objects of a depth few museums outside Asia hold.
Japanese and Korean art
Landscape after Ni Zan · Wang Yuanqi
Screens, scrolls, ceramics and lacquer.
Indian and Southeast Asian art
Sculpture and painting across the subcontinent.
Medieval art
The Guelph Treasure, ivories and reliquaries.
European art
Caravaggio and the old masters through the nineteenth century.
Modern European art
American painting and sculpture
Bellows’ Stag at Sharkey’s among them.
Contemporary art
Work by living artists, shown in rotation.
Greek and Roman art
Antiquities from the classical world.
African art
Sculpture, masks and textiles.
Pre-Columbian and Native North American art
The Americas before and after contact.
Textiles and Islamic art
Carpets, silks and manuscript pages.
Prints
Hut Amidst the Trees · Tsubaki Chinzan
Five centuries of printmaking.
Drawings
Works on paper, rotated to protect them.
Decorative art and design
Furniture, glass, silver and ceramics.
Photography
The nineteenth century to now.
Artists
Cleveland collects across five thousand years and most of the world, and in 2019 released roughly 30,000 works for anyone to use. These are the artists whose work you can stream on Momentable.
1471–1478
Japan · 1866–1942
Kamisaka Sekka was an important artistic figure in early twentieth-century Japan. Born in Kyoto to a samurai family, his talents for art and design were recognized early.
Japan · 1737–1802
French · 1848–1903 · Post-impressionism
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.
Chinese · 1598–1652
Chen Hongshou, formerly romanized as Ch'en Hung-shou, was a Chinese painter of the late Ming dynasty.
France · 1723–1804
Artworks
Public-domain works from the Cleveland Museum of Art, free to stream. Open any one to see it full-screen on Momentable.
Landscape
Ren Yu
Portraits of the Qianlong Emperor and His Twelve Consorts
Giuseppe Castiglione
Portrait of a Woman as Saint Catherine
Pier Francesco Foschi
The Bathers
Narcisse Diaz de la Peña
Lotus from Album of Paintings by the Venerable Zeshin
Shibata Zeshin
Aglaida and Boniface
Alexandre Cabanel
Wild Boars in the Snow
Rosa Bonheur
Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons
Watanabe Shikō
Portrait of a Man Holding a Glass
Joseph Daniel
Plan your visit
Hours
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 5pm; Wednesday and Friday 10am to 9pm. Closed Mondays. Confirm on clevelandart.org before you travel.
Admission
Free, always. General admission to the collection carries no charge.
Getting there
11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106. RTA Red Line to Little Italy–University Circle.
On their own site
Their Open Access collection browser at clevelandart.org/art/collection carries downloadable images.
Invite CMA into your living room
341 works from this collection are available on Momentable, free to view, on your TV, phone, or tablet.
