The Toledo Museum of Art, which is monetizing more than $60 million of collection art, joins a troubling trend of museums deaccessioning work that's long been in the public realm.
” by Henri Matisse, has been in the museum’s collection for 87 years. Paul Cézanne’s nearly abstract landscape from about 1895, “Nu s’essuyantI know those paintings. As a graduate student in the mid-1970s, I was a fellow at the TMA. Back then, it never occurred to me that the word “permanent” in the museum’s stellar permanent collection apparently meant 67 years, max.The TMA’s current director, Adam Levine, wasn’t born yet when the former California governor moved into the White House.
The shame is that the museum feels no obligation to keep these works in the public realm, where they’ve resided for generations. The artists are inarguably major figures in Modern art’s history, and these paintings illuminate important aspects of their work; holding them is a prime reason an art museum exists.made by Levine a little more than a month after he stepped into the director role two years ago.
Coincidentally, a pivotal 1993 Kerry James Marshall painting, “Beauty Examined,” hits the auction block two days after Toledo’s pictures, consigned to Sotheby’s by Loma Linda University, just outside San Bernardino, to raise funds for research at the school’s Center for Genomics. Marshall, as a Black American, insists that the legacy of white European painting is as much his as anyone’s.
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