The Architect's Dream

Thomas Cole · 1840

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Toledo Museum of Art

Toledo

A serious collection of European and American painting, free to walk into, with one of the finest glass collections in the world. More than 30,000 objects across 45 galleries, on a campus that is still being built out.

What to see

The Architect's Dream
Thomas Cole · 1840
The Architect's Dream is an 1840 oil painting created by Thomas Cole for New York architect Ithiel Town. Cole incorporated pieces of architecture from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Gothic styles in various different parts of the painting, having dabbled in architecture previously.

Houses at Auvers
Vincent van Gogh · 1890
Houses at Auvers is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It was created towards the end of May or beginning of June 1890, shortly after he had moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, a small town northwest of Paris, France.

Lot and His Daughters — Lot and his Daughters
Guercino · 1651

Children with a Cart
Francisco Goya · 1779

Venice, Grand Canal
Paul Signac · 1905
Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice is an oil on canvas painting by Paul Signac, painted in 1905, now in the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA. It shows the entrance to the Grand Canal in Venice, with the Dogana da Mar and Santa Maria della Salute in the background.

The Agony in the Garden
El Greco · 1590
Agony in the Garden is a 1590s oil on canvas painting from the studio of El Greco after an original in Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. Dating to his second stay in Toledo and still showing the major influence of Titian on his work, it is now in the collection the National Gallery in London.

Collections

The museum holds major collections of glass art and of 19th- and 20th-century European and American art, as well as small but distinguished collections of Renaissance, Greek, Roman and Japanese art. Notable individual works include Peter Paul Rubens's The Crowning of Saint Catherine; Fragonard's Blind Man's Bluff; Vincent van Gogh's Houses at Auvers; minor works by Rembrandt and El Greco; and modern works by Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore, and Sol LeWitt. Other artists in the permanent collection include Holbein, Cole, Cropsey, Turner, Tissot, Degas, Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Calder, Bearden, Close, and Kiefer.