Beyond the impressive monetary value of the Keithleys' gift, what matters most is its artistic quality and impact, which is considerable.
Cleveland Museum of Art's new Keithley Collection reveals a taste for close observation, gentle luminosityCLEVELAND, Ohio — Reading donor credits on wall labels at the Cleveland Museum of Art may sound like a dull way to spend time. But consider this: it’s a great way to find out whom we have to thank for placing one of America’s greatest art museums at our doorstep, with free general admission, no less.
William M. Griswold, director and president of the Cleveland Museum of Art, spoke in 2020 about the donation of the Joseph P. and Nancy F. Keithley collection to the museum. Lisa DeJong/The Plain DealerBuilt over the preceding 20 years, the Keithley Collection represents the biggest single gift in monetary value received by the museum since the pathbreaking 1958 bequest of $34 million left by Hanna, worth $352 million today.
Beyond the impressive monetary value of their gift, what matters most is its artistic quality and impact, which is considerable.Starting Sunday, Clevelanders can judge for themselves how the Keithley donation is changing the museum by nudging it firmly in several delightful directions at once. "Box with Japanese Crested Ibises in Lotus Pond," 2006. Takegoshi Jun . Keithley Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art.It’s quite a hoard. The museum has already given Clevelanders a taste of the Keithley Collection by sprinkling 15 works throughout the permanent collection galleries starting in the summer of 2020. But with all of the works on view now, it’s possible finally to get a comprehensive view. The show includes 112 donated works, plus nine promised gifts and another 13 on loan.
"Study of a Tulip ," c. 1645. Pieter Holsteyn II . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.132Also on display in the room is a pair of 16th-century Ming Dynasty ceramics, including a yellow glazed bowl with exquisitely curved contours that taper gracefully to a slender lip.
Those qualities are also embodied in the adjacent paintings by Denis and Verkade, members of the Nabis, a late 19th-century movement in French painting that took its name from the Hebrew word for “prophets.” The museum explored the movement in a major recent exhibition that included several works from the Keithley Collection.
The “Pink Cloud,’’ an 1896 painting of a sunset near the sea by the Pointillist painter Henri Edmond-Cross, is painted in tones of sapphire, emerald, coral, and cobalt violet that soothe the eye and the mind. "Some More," 1980 by Joan Mitchell . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Promised Gift of Nancy F. and Joseph P. KeithleyThe Mitchell paintings cap a sequence of American paintings that include superb watercolors of forest and coastal scenes in Maine by Marin, several buoyantly colorful backyard landscapes by Kent, Ohio painter Joseph O’Sickey; and the austere and witty Milton Avery paintings, depicting chickens in a farmyard and a view of the sea called “Blue Bay.
Before the Keithley gift, the museum had perhaps a half-dozen fine paintings by Bonnard. Now it has enough to be able to trace the artist’s long-term relationship with his wife and muse, Marthe de Méligny.
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