Annual Report (10.1 MB PDF) - Cleveland Museum of Art

Previous pages: The
system for storing the
collection introduced
some interesting
neighbors to one
another. Here, Claes
Oldenburg’s giant
toothpaste tube rests
among medieval
armaments.
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Grave Stele (Relief),
about 50 bc; Southern
Asia Minor, Pamphylia,
Hellenistic Greek;
marble; 73.6 x 42.5 cm;
Gift of James E. and
Elizabeth J. Ferrell
2005.52.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is widely admired for the scope and
quality of its acquisitions. During the past 18 months, we have lived up to
this reputation: works of art from around the globe and covering a broad
span of time entered the collection. From Pamphylia in Southern Asia
Minor came a striking example of Hellenistic marble sculpture, Grave Stele
(Relief) of about 50 BC. From our own hemisphere came three spectacular
gold nose ornaments made by the Moche people of ancient Peru around
AD 100–300, along with a half of a tunic, woven between AD 500 and
1000, that is among the finest tapestries ever created in the ancient Americas.
From Europe and joining the medieval collection came two French
manuscript leaves—one from a book of hours from about 1415 by a follower
of the Limbourg brothers (Netherlandish), part of a group donated
by Jeanne Miles Blackburn, and another from around 1467–70 illuminated
by Simon Marmion and depicting scenes from the life of St. Denis.
African Art acquired two important works from the 1800s during the
18-month period: an ivory figurine from the Lega people of the Demo-