The Cleveland Museum Under Renovation

A Virtual Tour

By: Charles Giuliano - May 10, 2010

An overview of the museum under construction.

A model of the museum’s expansion.

A glass encased gallery in the new wing displays works by Rodin.

The Age of Bronze by Rodin.

A large head by Rodin from the Burghers of Calais..

The armory gallery.

The Crucifixion of St. Andrew by Caravaggio.

Stage Night at Sharky’s by George Bellows.

A late Cezanne of Mt. Sainte Victoire from 1904.

Charles II by Phillippe de Champaigne.

Twilight in the Wilderness by Church.

This landscape by Courbet was unfinished at the time of his death.

Schroon Mountain by Thomas Cole.

Cole’s View of Florence.

Cupid and Psyche by Jacques Louis David.

A Frieze of Dancers by Degas.

The Biglin Brothers Rounding the Stake by Eakins.

One of the last paintings by Gauguin with haunts of death.

A Rhode Island seascape by Martin Johnson Heade.

Houdon’s portrait of the composer Gluck.

George III by Benjamin West.

Turner’s the Burning of the House of Parliament.

Adiline Ravoux by van Gogh.

Workers Repairing a Street with Large Trees by van Gogh.

A painting by the ever charming Tissot.

A study by Seurat.

Albert Ryder’s The Race Track: Death on a Pale Horse.

The first wife of Rubens Isabella B rant died young.

A landscape by Rosa Bonheur.

An allegory of Poverty.

Picasso’s Blue Period masterpiece La Vie.

Washington at Princeton by Charles Wilson Peale.

Gallery with a large Monet Water Lily.

A Monet still life of spring flowers.

A portrait by Amadeo Modigliani.

Louis XIII at 10.

Manet’s portrait of Berthe Morisot.

A painting by Berthe Morisot.

Catherine Gray, Lady Manners, rejected this portrait by Lawrence.

The Dream of a Eunuchi in Love with a Harem Girl.

 

The Cleveland Museum Under Renovation
A Virtual Tour

The Cleveland Museum was founded in 1916. Under former director Sherman Lee it evolved as one of America’s great collections with strength in American and European art as well as superb holdings in Ancient Egyptian and Asian Art.

The museum is currently under renovation designed by Rafael Vinoly that continues until 2014.

This summer the First Floor of the original building opens with its Egyptian, Asian and African collections.

Currently the museum is displaying a special exhibition of Native American Art from the Thaw Collection of the Fennimore Museum in Cooperstown, New York. We viewed many exquisite works.

Although much of the museum is under construction we spent the best part of a sublime day making many discoveries of world renowned paintings, sculptures and objects.

Among the masterpieces were Picasso’s most important Blue Period painting La Vie, Turner’s the Burning of the House of Parliament, Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of St. Andrew, Ryder’s The Horse Race or Death on a Pale Horse, Twilight in the Wilderness by Church, and The Biglin Brothers Rounding the Stake by Eakins.

Here is a slide show of a selection of masterpieces.