Inspired Giving: the Apollo Society 25th Anniversary Exhibition February 11, 2011

This exhibition celebrates the contributions of The Apollo Society donor group to the Toledo Museum of Art's permanent collection, paying tribute to their gifts as a whole as well as to the individual works of art. Shown in the Museum's major exhibition gallery, 'Inspired Giving' offers an exquisite breadth of art from antiquity to the present, from ancient Egypt to contemporary China. Among the 47 works in the exhibition are: 'Alex,' a 1987 oil painting by American artist Chuck Close; Greek gold and gold leaf jewelry from about 350-325 BC; a copy of I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (Four Books of Architecture) published in 1570 by Venetian architect Palladio; Interior of Courtyard, 'Strandgade,' an 1899 oil painting by Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershoi; 'Bishamonten: Guardian of the North,' a carved hinoki wood sculpture from Japan's Kamakura Period (13th -14th centuries), and two mid-19th-century chandeliers, one French and made of gilded bronze and malachite, and one English, made of cut glass and silvered brass by Perry & Company of London.