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#hiddengem #toledomuseumofart #ornaments #handblownglass #christmas #christmascheer If you’re ever in Toledo come to our museum. The collection is beautiful and the architecture is great. I try to go and get unique ornaments every holiday season. This years gems!!
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I’m off to #Toledo…

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Review | Her brilliant flower paintings will teach you all about abundance
A traveling exhibition resurrects Rachel Ruysch, an ambitious Dutch painter (and two-time lottery winner) whose intricate still lifes still stun.
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July 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
tom-isley.bsky.social
Stop by @toledomuseumofart today and you can see the exhibition with some bits that won’t be in Boston
June 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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This is my local museum and I can say that it's pretty great. I haven't yet been to this exhibition, but I'm looking forward to it. #TMA #toledomuseumofart
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Screenshot of portions of reproductions of 4 Rachel Ruysch paintings on note cards, from Art Herstory's online store, with orange rectangular "sale" icons in the upper left corners.
May 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Blind Man’s Bluff (aka Blind Man’s Bluff) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French) - Oil on canvas / c. 1750-1752 - Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) #womeninart #art #oilpainting #Jean-HonoréFragonard #artwork #Fragonard #fineart #artwork #womensart #childsgame #FrenchArtist ##ToledoMuseumofArt #Rococo #lovers
In the 18th century, the game of blind man’s buff (or blind man’s bluff) became a symbolic arena for courtship, chance, and the amorous amusements of lovers (directly relating to the concept “love is blind”). Playfully erotic and sensuously painted, French Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s scene appropriately takes place within a garden; he develops the theme of the fleeting nature of youthful love by decorating his composition with spring flowers. In a nod to 18th-century French aristocratic taste for romantic pastoral themes, the young figures are beautifully dressed in rustic by improbably fashionable and expensive clothes; the woman’s shoes even have elegant bows on them. As a lover tickles his beloved on the cheek with a piece of straw, a Cupid-like infant brushes her hand with the end of a stick. These teasing gestures are meant to lead or distract the woman to or from the object of her desire. Reaching out to locate her lover, the woman steals a glance from underneath her blindfold and catches our gaze, letting us in on the joke: that she is not as blind or as helpless in this game as her lover suspects. This typical Rococo painting is engaging as its playful nature jumps off the canvas and invites us to join in the game. The two younger children are seemingly in blissful ignorance, one even lazily leaning against a tree, leaving the infatuated older players to almost inhabit their own playful bubble. The innocence of “Blind Man’s Buff” could be downplayed as a symbolic representation for the folly of marriage — as was often the case with 16th and 17th century artists. The “unpredictable” nature of this game reflects the many “unknown” aspects of marriage, the teasing and flirting that comes beforehand hides what is truly before them. The blindfold acts as a protection, sheltering the young woman from the possible harsh realities of married life that may come.
April 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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夏衣の女 (Natsugoromo no onna aka Woman in a Summer Garment) by 橋口五葉 (Goyō Hashiguchi, Japanese) - Color woodblock print / 1920 - Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) #womeninart #art #woodblockprint #橋口五葉 #GoyoHashiguchi #新版画 #HashiguchiGoyo #浮世絵 #womensart #JapaneseArt #木版画 #JapaneseArtist #ToledoMuseumofArt
Japanese artist Goyō Hashiguchi (橋口五葉) depicted his favorite model and lover Nakatani Tsuru (中谷つる), a waitress at Osaka’s Icho restaurant, whom lived in his Akasaka home-studio. She kneels in repose before a traditional dressing-table and mirror-stand on a "zabuton" (座布団 or flat cushion), wearing an almost transparent "yukata" (浴衣 or summer bathrobe). Nakatani holds her sheer summer robe closed and stares while slightly avoiding our gaze. She fills the space with quiet, classic elegance that is enhanced by the sensitive printing of the garment and the solidity of the limbs beneath it. The three-dimensional treatment of her body visible under the pattern of the robe shows the artist's method of almost literally dressing his naturalistic drawing in decorative design. Most of Goyo's models were waitresses or maids rather than Geisha, but the prints for which they posed have a dignity which suggests that the models were cultured and refined which resulted in Hashiguchi immortalizing these women, who in many ways were the Taishō (大正時代) equivalent of Utamaro's (喜多川歌麿) geisha. Created at a time when rapid changes concerning women in Japanese society threatened the established notions of appearances and roles, the print seems to bring the past and present together. The woman is a tantalizing beauty in the manner of ukiyo-e (浮世絵) images, yet has a presence and a sense of self-possession that seem entirely modern for the time. Hashiguchi's father, a samurai and amateur painter, made him study painting from the age of ten, and thereafter at Tokyo School of Fine Arts where he graduated as the top of his class in 1905. His brief life was plagued by health problems — including beriberi and meningitis — which made for a somewhat tragic end. It took him many years to establish himself as a self-producing artist. He had only two years with independence and control over his creations, during which time he produced 12 prints, including this one, before his life was cut short 1921.
March 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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The Salutation of Beatrice by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British) - Oil on canvas / 1880-1882 - Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) #womeninart #art #PreRaphaelite #artwork #fineart #womensart #oilpainting #Pre-Raphaelite #Rossetti #DanteGabrielRossetti #beauty #ToledoMuseumofArt #britishart #VitaNuova
The woman in this painting is depicted in the British Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty with her pale face, full lips, and thick, wavy, chestnut hair. Painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of 19th-century British artists and writers. They admired early Italian Renaissance art (pre-Raphael) and advocated the direct observation of nature, in contrast to what they saw as the insincere and overly polished British academic style. Beatrice dominates the composition, but Dante can be seen in the background, comforted by the winged personification of Love. In 1861, Rossetti published a translation of the Vita Nuova (New Life) by his namesake Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), a series of autobiographical sonnets detailing Dante’s unrequited love for Florentine belle Beatrice Portinari. The Salutation of Beatrice illustrates lines from the second sonnet in Vita Nuova. His translation begins, "My lady looks so gentle and so pure. When yielding salutation by the way, That the tongue trembles and has nought to say, And the eyes, which fain would see, may not endure". At the Toledo Museum of Art, you can read the entire poem—both in the original Italian and in Rossetti’s English translation—on the gilded frame, which Rossetti designed specifically for this painting.
February 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Portrait of a Young Woman by Horace Vernet (French) - Oil on canvas / 1831 - Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) #womeninart #HoraceVernet #portrait #ToledoMuseumofArt #art #oilpainting #womensart #vernet #artwork #fineart #portraitofawoman #alttext #oilpainting #romanticism #whiteout #marshmallow #bskyart
The young woman in this portrait by Horace Vernet sits nestled in the landscape, almost merging with it. Her puffy snow white dress and cream gloves covering her from head to toe in layers of white contrasts strikingly with the dark foliage. By linking the woman with the landscape in such a physical way, Vernet expressed the sensibilities of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Romantics saw expressive emotion in nature and humanity’s relationship to it. Vernet includes details that suggests aspects of the woman’s personality and circumstances. Her white muslin and pink ribbon and belt evoke girlish innocence. She may, however, be engaged to be married: the violets she holds traditionally symbolized faithfulness, while juniper (the tree that seems to engulf her) could signify chastity. Vernet came from a family of artists. His grandfather, Claude-Joseph Vernet was a celebrated landscape artist.
January 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Jeanne Cartier by Francis Luis Mora (American) - Oil on canvas / 1915 - Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio) #womeninart #painting #FrancisLuisMora #art #fluismora #artwork #toledomuseumofart #cartier #womensart #portrait #fineart #portraitofawoman #bskyart #uruguayanartist #americanartist #artbsky #woman
Celebrated ballet and ice dancer Jeanne Cartier exudes joy via a large smile and whimsical dance pose in this full-length portrait. With her back (right) leg extended out from a dark robe with floral patterns and long black fringe, her ballet toeshoes are proudly on display. Giant earrings and a black Spanish montera hat with bulbs on both sides adds to the playfulness of this oil on canvas painting. Francis Luis Mora (known as F. Luis Mora) was born in Montevideo, Uruguayan, but became famous as an American figural painter. Mora worked in watercolor, oils, tempera, pen and ink, graphite creating paintings and drawings depicting American life in the early 20th century; Spanish life and society; historical and allegorical subjects. He also was a popular art instructor.
January 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Princess Demidoff (Sophie Ilarinovna) by John Singer Sargent (American) - Oil on canvas / 1895-1896 - Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art #womeninart #bskyart #artwork #johnsingersargent #painting #art #toledomuseumofart #sargent #bsky.art #artoftheday #portrait #fineart #americanart #oilpainting
A famous fashion leader, Sophie Ilarinovna Vorontsova-Dashkova (1871-1953) renowned for her beauty and ability as a sportswoman. She married Russian diplomat Prince Demidoff in 1893. John Singer Sargent painted her portrait in London a few years later, where her husband worked for the Russian Embassy. Sargent highlights her stylishness by posing her before a fashionable Chinese lacquer screen (a prop from Sargent’s studio) and dramatically contrasting her white silk dress with her flame-colored short cape. Born in Florence to American parents, Sargent established himself in London as the leading society portraitist of his day. His elegant and glamorous paintings of the rich and famous of late-19th-century England and America are characterized by free handling of paint (broad, loose brushstrokes are visible throughout this portrait) and sensitivity to the individuality of each of his subjects.
December 29, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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December 4, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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I agree. And I hope they start posting here on BlueSky soon. Here are two of my favorite pieces from their collections. #TMA #ToledoMuseumOfArt
Fundamental Vortex 2, Michael Estes Taylor (2006) Iago's Mirror, Fred Wilson (2009)
November 16, 2024 at 9:10 PM
“Near the Beach, Shinnecock.” William Merritt Chase (American; 1849–1916). Oil on canvas, 1895. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio.

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August 24, 2024 at 2:30 AM
@toledomuseum “Harvester” by #GraceHartigan (1966)

Concentrating on the surface of the canvas, Hartigan builds up and rubs away thin layers of paint before adding thick black outlines and swaths of opaque autumnal color, resulting in a stained-glass effe

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August 15, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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“View of the Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice” by Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto (late 1730s)

In the age of the Grand Tour, art became the ultimate souvenir.

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August 13, 2024 at 10:56 PM
@toledomuseum museum museum Lot and His Daughters, Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593-1652/53). On View in Gallery 36.

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July 9, 2024 at 1:25 AM
“The Trellis.” Gustave Courbet (French; 1819-1877). Oil on canvas, 1862. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio.

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July 6, 2024 at 10:20 PM
@toledomuseum On View in Gallery 29B “Starrucca Viaduct, Pennsylvania” by Jasper Francis (1865)

Take in views of the northeast’s forests, mountains and valleys in a celebration of America’s unique, often untouched, natural beauty.

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July 1, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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#KawaseHasui (1883-1957)
"Snow at Inokashira" 1928
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Snow-covered temple on an island jutted out into the water. A kimono clad woman walks protected by snow with a white umbrella.
December 13, 2023 at 9:04 PM