Skip to content

Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.

  • About us
    • About us
    • Director’s message
    • Meet the team
  • Publish with us
    • Publish with us
    • Client list
  • How to order
    • How to order
  • Scala publications
    • All titles
    • Upcoming titles
    • Art
      • Fine art
      • Contemporary art
      • Decorative art
      • Architecture
      • Sculpture
    • Collections
    • Education
      • Schools & colleges
      • Academic
      • Children’s
    • Exhibitions
    • Heritage
      • Royal collection
      • Castles
      • Homes & gardens
      • Sporting venues
    • Illustrated histories
    • Libraries
    • Religious sites
    • Series
      • Director’s Choice
      • Art Spaces
      • Highlights
      • 4-Fold
Menu
  • About us
    • About us
    • Director’s message
    • Meet the team
  • Publish with us
    • Publish with us
    • Client list
  • How to order
    • How to order
  • Scala publications
    • All titles
    • Upcoming titles
    • Art
      • Fine art
      • Contemporary art
      • Decorative art
      • Architecture
      • Sculpture
    • Collections
    • Education
      • Schools & colleges
      • Academic
      • Children’s
    • Exhibitions
    • Heritage
      • Royal collection
      • Castles
      • Homes & gardens
      • Sporting venues
    • Illustrated histories
    • Libraries
    • Religious sites
    • Series
      • Director’s Choice
      • Art Spaces
      • Highlights
      • 4-Fold
Search
Close

Collection Companion

Toledo Museum of Art 

Brian P. Kennedy and Halona Norton-Westbrook

  • Categories: Collections, Decorative art, Fine art
ISBN: 978 1 78551 178 3
Size: 254 x 178
Binding: paperback
Pages: 336
In association with: Toledo Museum of Art
Date published: October, 2018
UK ÂŁ16.50
/ US $24.95

Highlights

  • Most up-to-date book available on one of the most important museums in the United States
  • A visitor-friendly handbook that serves as a souvenir of the collection as well as an evocation of the experience of visiting the Museum
  • In addition to explorations of individual works of art, also features thematic entries of three to four works using the Toledo Museum of Art’s visual literacy strategies, the Art of Seeing Art.

Description

The Toledo Museum of Art is world-famous for its Old Master paintings and its comprehensive representation of the art of glass. It is also home to small but outstanding collections of art from Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, and the ancient Mediterranean; a broad collection of prints, photographs, and artists’ books; decorative arts and design from the Middle Ages to the 21st century; and contemporary art from around the world.

The selections in this books highlight works by such significant artists as Thomas Cole, DĂĽrer, El Greco, Gainsborough, Rembrandt, Rubens, Turner, van Gogh, VigĂ©e-Le Brun, MirĂł, Georgia O’Keeffe, Picasso, Kara Walker, and Kehinde Wiley. Elegantly designed with an accessible and informative text, this is an essential volume for all visitors to the museum and anyone interested in the history of art.

Author information

Written by Brian P. Kennedy, the Museum’s Director, President and CEO; and Halona Norton-Westbrook, Director of Collections and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Share

Amazon UK
ACC UK
Amazon USA
ACC USA

Related publications

The Royal Castle in Warsaw

Director's Choice

Afterlives

Ancient Greek Funerary Monuments in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

50 Masterpieces of Czech Cubism

From the collections of the Gallery of West Bohemia in Pilsen

European Fans

The Untold Story

Savitsky Karakalpakstan State Museum of Art

Collection Highlights

With Observation and Imagination

Still Lives, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection

The Abbey Library of St Gallen

Director's Choice

Fabergé Museum

Director's Choice

Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
305 Access House
141-157 Acre Lane
London SW2 5UA
United Kingdom

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.
c/o CohnReznick LLP
1301 Avenue of the Americas
10th Floor
New York, NY 10019
United States

  • Contact us

Follow us

  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • FAQ
  • Download catalogue
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookie policy
  • Credits