Permanent Collection
The Canton Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection focus is 19th, 20th and 21st century American works on paper and contemporary ceramics, 1950s and forward. Major categories are American paintings; American drawings; American watercolors; American prints and American ceramics. This focus is unique among museums in northeast Ohio – an area that includes such distinguished museums as the Akron Art Museum, The Butler Institute of American Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
The collection focus was enhanced through the gift of a fine collection of watercolors and drawings from Ralph L. Wilson in the 70s. Included in his gift were works by Burchfield, Demuth, Feininger, Henri, Keller, Marin, Maurer, Prendergast, Shinn, Sommer. Augmented the watercolor collection are purchased works of Thomas Hart Benton, Oscar Bluemner, Carolyn Brady, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, George Luks, Jan Multaka, Joseph Raffael, John Singer Sargent and Andrew Wyeth. The print collection contains work by Romare Bearden, Thomas Hart Benton, Alexander Calder, Mary Cassatt, Roy Lichtenstein, Mary Nimmo Moran, Philip Pearlstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers and Andy Warhol.
Contemporary ceramics 1950s and forward is a unique yet traditional focus for the Museum. Ohio’s history of ceramics includes decorative pottery work of Roseville, Rookwood, Weller and McCoy and the Museum’s focus extends this interest in pottery with contemporary works. The collection contains works by Jack Earl, Maija Grotell, Marilyn Levine, Toshiko Takaezu and Patti Warashina among others. In the past three years, the collection has been expanded through gifts and purchases with works by Ken Ferguson, Karen Karnes, Don Pilcher, Don Reitz and Victor Spinski.
In addition, the Museum maintain an American painting collection which presently includes 1300 objects. Included in this collection are works by Gifford Beal, George Clough, Frank Duveneck, William Glackens, Arthur Clifton Goodwin, John Kensett, John Koch, Thomas Moran, Robert E. L. Rainey, Mary Spain and Gilbert Stuart.
Since 1992, the Museum has purchased watercolors by Thomas Hart Benton, Oscar Bluemner, Carolyn Brady, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, George Luks, Jan Multaka, Joseph Raffael and John Singer Sargent. The ceramic collection was supplemented with purchases of works by Brother Thomas Bezanson, Ken Ferguson, Karen Karnes, Roberta Laidman and Victor Spinski. In addition, the Museum accepted gifts of works by Don Pilcher and Don Reitz.
The permanent collection serves as the foundation for the Museum’s exhibition programs. It is used in ongoing exhibits of the Permanent Collection (mindful of the special rotation requirements of watercolors and works on paper), and as the core of special exhibits created with loans from other institutions.
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