Description: The Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio. Formerly the Baum-Longworth-Sinton-Taft House, this National Historic Landmark was built about 1820 for Martin Baum. It is the oldest domestic wooden structure in situ locally and is considered one of the finest examples of Federal architecture in the Palladian style in the country. Another resident of this important villa was Rep. Nicholas Longworth (Ohio), who extensively redecorated the interiors and hired African American painter Robert S. Duncanson to paint landscape murals in the foyer, now considered as one of the finest suites of domestic murals dating from before the Civil War. After Longworth’s residency, David Sinton, father of the museum's co-founder Anna Sinton Taft. Anna Taft lived in the mansion with her husband Charles Phelps Taft from 1873 until their respective deaths in 1931 and 1929. In 1908, Charles Phelps Taft’s half-brother, William Howard Taft, accepted the nomination for U.S. president underneath the house’s portico. The Tafts bequeathed their historic home and private collection of 690 works of art to the people of Cincinnati in 1927. After extensive remodeling and updating, the Baum-Longworth-Taft House opened as the Taft Museum of Art in 1932. The Taft Museum of Art reopened on May 15, 2004, following a major renovation and expansion, which included a parking garage, the Fifth Third Gallery for special exhibitions, Dater Education Room, Luther Hall performance/lecture facility, a larger museum shop, and a café. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06036
Subjects: Taft Museum of Art; Art museums; Taft, Anna Sinton, d. 1931; Taft, Charles Phelps, 1843-1929; Longworth, Nicholas, 1869-1931; Cultural Ohio--Art and Artists
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the gates to the grounds of the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio. . The museum was built around 1820 as a Greek Revival villa for Martin Baum. Successive owners included Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, his daughter Anna Sinton and her husband, Charles Phelps Taft. Charles Taft was the half brother of William Howard Taft, who accepted the nomination for the U.S. presidency under the portico of this house. in 1927 Anna and Charles Taft donated the house and its collection of art to the people of Cincinnati with the statement "We desire to devote our collection of pictures, porcelains and other works of art to the people of Cincinnati in such a manor that they may be readily available for all." The house opened as the Taft Museum of Art in 1932. It is a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06184
Subjects: Art museums; Cincinnati (Ohio); Taft Museum of Art; Greek revival (Architecture); Taft, Anna Sinton, -1931; Taft, Charles Phelps, 1843-1929
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is an exterior view of the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio. The museum was built around 1820 as a Greek Revival villa for Martin Baum. Successive owners included Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, his daughter Anna Sinton and her husband, Charles Phelps Taft. Charles Taft was the half brother of William Howard Taft, who accepted the nomination for the U.S. presidency under the portico of this house. In 1927 Anna and Charles Taft donated the house and its collection of art to the people of Cincinnati with the statement "We desire to devote our collection of pictures, porcelains and other works of art to the people of Cincinnati in such a manor that they may be readily available for all." The house opened as the Taft Museum of Art in 1932. It is a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06185
Subjects: Art museums; Cincinnati (Ohio); Taft Museum of Art; Greek revival (Architecture); Taft, Anna Sinton, -1931; Taft, Charles Phelps, 1843-1929
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is exterior view of the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio. The museum was built around 1820 as a Greek Revival villa for Martin Baum. Successive owners included Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, his daughter Anna Sinton and her husband, Charles Phelps Taft. Charles Taft was the half brother of William Howard Taft, who accepted the nomination for the U.S. presidency under the portico of this house. In 1927 Anna and Charles Taft donated the house and its collection of art to the people of Cincinnati with the statement "We desire to devote our collection of pictures, porcelains and other works of art to the people of Cincinnati in such a manor that they may be readily available for all." The house opened as the Taft Museum of Art in 1932. It is a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06186
Subjects: Art museums; Cincinnati (Ohio); Taft Museum of Art; Greek revival (Architecture); Taft, Anna Sinton, -1931; Taft, Charles Phelps, 1843-1929
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: this photograph is an exterior view of the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio. The museum was built around 1820 as a Greek Revival villa for Martin Baum. Successive owners included Nicholas Longworth, David Sinton, his daughter Anna Sinton and her husband, Charles Phelps Taft. Charles Taft was the half brother of William Howard Taft, who accepted the nomination for the U.S. presidency under the portico of this house. in 1927 Anna and Charles Taft donated the house and its collection of art to the people of Cincinnati with the statement "We desire to devote our collection of pictures, porcelains and other works of art to the people of Cincinnati in such a manor that they may be readily available for all." The house opened as the Taft Museum of Art in 1932. It is a National Historic Landmark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06183
Subjects: Art museums; Cincinnati (Ohio); Taft Museum of Art; Greek revival (Architecture)
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Frank Duveneck (1848-1919) was one of the America's most influential realist painters in the 19th Century and the best known painter in Cincinnati. His painting "The Cobbler's Apprentice", painted in 1877 on oil canvas, hangs in the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F07_006_1
Subjects: Taft Museum of Art; Paintings; Arts and Entertainment; Galleries & museums; Duveneck, Frank, 1848-1919
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) was an influential English painter of the 18th century who specialized in portraits, promoting the "Grand Style" in painting, which depended on the idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first president of the Royal Academy. In his appreciation of his work, George III knighted him in 1769. His painting of Mrs John Weyland and her son John hangs in the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F07_007_1
Subjects: Taft Museum of Art; Paintings; Arts and Entertainment; Galleries & museums; Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Made in Brussels in the first quarter of the 16th century, this tapestry titled "Adoration of the Magi" was made by a follower of Hugo van der Goes, a 15th century Flemmish painter. It is made of wool and silk with gold and silver threads, with warp 24, weft 93-95, and measures 35.75 inches by 33.25 inches. It was added to the collections of the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 2, 1902. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F07_010_1
Subjects: Taft Museum of Art; Tapestry; Decorative arts; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Taft Museum. Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Artist Hooch, Pieter de, School Dutch, 1628-1683, Subject The Music Lesson, Negative Number 1931.395 Reproduction of this image must be accompanied by the words: Taft Museum" This is a photograph of an oil painting which depicts a woman standing, with one foot raised on a short stool, and playing a musical instrument, maybe a lute. A gentleman sits at a tapestry draped table nearby, while holding a book. Taft Museum has titled this "Title: A Woman with a Cittern and a Singing Couple at a Table." It measures 27 7/8 inches by 22 3/4 inches and was completed around 1667. The artist sometimes goes by Pieter de Hoogh. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F07_009_1
Subjects: Taft Museum of Art; Arts and Entertainment; Galleries & museums; Hooch, Pieter de; Music; Paintings
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Artist: Hals, Frans School: Dutch, 1580 ? - 1666 Subject: Head of a Laughing Child with a Flute Negative Number: 1931.401 Reporductions of this photograph must be accompanied by the words: Taft Museum" This oil painting, by Frans Hals, is very similar in composition and style to another of his works, "Laughing child", with the addition of a flute. The child is framed by a circle, as though looking through a porthole, with a second child in the background looking on. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F07_011_1
Subjects: Taft Museum of Art; Paintings; Arts and Entertainment; Galleries & museums; Hals, Frans, 1584-1666;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads "(feng-huang) ? on rocks amidst clouds. ? ? European. Please return to: Taft Museum, 316 Price Street" From the Taft Museum: Title: Phoenix Ewer Accession Number: 1931.18 Artist: Chinese (Ming dynasty) Date Completed: 1570-80 Date Acquired: 1931 Description: H. 11-3/4 in. Porcelain with silver-gilt mounts Fenghuang are East Asian mythological birds which are both male and female. It is sometimes called the "August Rooster" or the Chinese Phoenix. Its multicolored body symbolizes the six celestial bodies (sky, sun, moon, wind, earth and planets) and is a composite of many creatures, some of which might include the rooster, swallow, fowl, snake, goose, tortoise, stag, fish, pheasant, duck, peacock, crane, and/or parrot. It is sometimes a symbol of virtue and grace or loyalty and honesty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F07_008_1
Subjects: Taft Museum of Art; Paintings; Arts and Entertainment; Galleries & museums; Ewers; Duveneck, Frank, 1848-1919. Ming dynasty collection
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)