Taft Museum of Art
The Taft Museum of Art is a fine art collection in Cincinnati, Ohio. It occupies the 200-year-old historic house at 316 Pike Street. The house – the oldest domestic wooden structure in downtown Cincinnati – was built about 1820 and housed several prominent Cincinnatians, including Martin Baum, Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, Anna Sinton Taft and Charles Phelps Taft.
Taft Museum of Art
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- Name
- Baum-Taft House
- Founded
- 1927
- Headquarters
- United States
- Part of
- Lytle Park Historic District
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The Taft Museum of Art is a fine art collection in Cincinnati, Ohio. It occupies the 200-year-old historic house at 316 Pike Street. The house – the oldest domestic wooden structure in downtown Cincinnati – was built about 1820 and housed several prominent Cincinnatians, including Martin Baum, Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, Anna Sinton Taft and Charles Phelps Taft.
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It is on the National Register of Historic Places listings, and is a contributing property to the Lytle Park Historic District.
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• Name — Baum-Taft House • Nrhp Type — nhl • Nrhp Type2 — cp • Nocat — yes • Location — Cincinnati, Ohio • Built — 1820 • Architecture — Federal • Added — January 29, 1973 • Ref Num — 73001470
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• Illustration — Portrait of Mr. Taft, by Joaquin Sorolla (1909) The Taft house was first built for Martin Baum in 1820 and then was the residence of Nicholas Longworth. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976, in honor of the murals on its walls that were painted by Robert S. Duncanson under the commission of Nicholas Longworth. Robert S. Duncanson painted the series of eight large-scale landscapes directly on the plaster walls of the art patron and horticulturist Nicholas Longworth's home between 1851 and 1852. Second to the Taft house itself, the murals – recognized as the most significant pre–Civil War domestic murals in the U.S. – are one of the museum's largest pieces of art. Duncanson was also one of the first widely known Black American artists to rise to international acclaim. After Longworth's residency, the house was purchased by David Sinton, father of museum co-founder Anna Sinton Taft. David Sinton lived in the house with his daughter Anna, who married Charles Phelps Taft, the half-brother of President William Howard Taft. The Tafts lived in the house from 1873 until their respective deaths in 1931 and 1929. William H. Taft accepted his presidential nomination there from its portico in 1908 adding to its significance in the nation's public life. The Tafts were avid art collectors. They bequeathed their home and the collection of art that filled it to the people of Cincinnati in 1927. In the Tafts' deed of gift they stated, "We desire to devote our collection of pictures, porcelains, and other works of art to the people of Cincinnati in such a manner that they may be readily available for all." The Taft Museum opened to the public on November 29, 1932.
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The museum's collections include European old master paintings, with works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Thomas Gainsborough, Frans Hals, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Rembrandt van Rijn, Adriaen van Ostade, and J. M. W. Turner, among others, and 19th-century American paintings, including the well-known Duncanson murals. The galleries in the historic house also include Chinese porcelains, European decorative arts, Limoges enamels, watches, sculptures, and furniture. Collection highlights include: • Joaquin Sorolla, Portrait of Mr. Taft, President of the United States, 1909. • Frank Duveneck, The Cobbler's Apprentice, 1877. • Henry Farny, Song of the Talking Wire, 1904. • Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of a Man Rising from His Chair, 1633. • J. M. W. Turner, Europa and the Bull, ca. 1840–50. • James Abbott McNeill Whistler, At the Piano, 1858–59. • Anonymous author of the 13th century, Virgin and Child, from Paris, Abbey of Saint-Denis, ca. 1260–80. • Olivuccio di Ciccarello, Madonna nursing the Child with Saints. • Frans Hals, Portrait of Seated Man Holding Hat. • Gerard Terborch, Sleeping Soldier. • Jeronymus Van Diest, Sailboats On River with Fisherman. • Corot, Evening:Festival of Pan. • Charles Daubigny, Evening on Oise. • An appreciable collection of Limoges enamel paintings. The museum reopened in May 2004 after an extensive renovation and expansion including a museum shop, the Carl H. Lindner Family Café, and a lecture and performance space, Luther Hall.
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- 1.NRISref 2007a
- 2.Mitchell, Madeline. Taft Museum of Art receives $750,000 grant to renovate the Historic House. Cincinnati.com.
- 3.Cincinnati-oh.gov. National Register Historic Districts – City Planning & Buildings.
- 4.Mitchell, Madeline. Taft Museum of Art receives $750,000 grant to renovate the Historic House. Cincinnati.com.
- 5.Ketner, Joseph D. "The Belmont Murals In The Taft Museum", Queen City Heritage, Volume 46, No. 1 (Spring 1988), p. 51–63.
- 6.Just in Time for the Holidays, Taft Museum's Duncanson Murals are Up for Adoption. CityBeat Cincinnati.
- 7.Artist Duncanson's sweeping, complex life. WCPO. 2016-02-25.
- 8.The Spirit of Anna Sinton Taft. Phil Armstrong.
- 9.Fodors.com. Taft Museum of Art Cincinnati Review | Fodor's.
- 10.Federal Writers' Project. Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors. 166. 1943. 831684.
- 11.work previously attributed to Carlo da Camerino
- 12.Felix Winternitz & Sacha DeVroomen Bellman. Insiders' Guide to Cincinnati. Globe Pequot. 13. 2007. 9780762741809.
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