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Show H TOLEDO'S NEW MUSEUM OF ART, WH8CH COST H $500,000, WILL BE DEDICATED TODAY TOLEDO, O., Jan. 16. Many artists" fl and museum officials from all over H tho country will be lioro tomorrow to H attend the opening and Inaugural x- hibltlon of tho Museum of Art. The H new building, designed by Croon and H Wicks of Buffalo and Harry W. Wach- H ter of 'this city, la of whlto marble H I with 'a frontage of 200 feet, the style H being Creole Ionic of tho Pcrlcloan H period. It e tan do In a spacious grove H of forest oaks in tho heart of the H city. rTho building and grounds rep- H rasftnt an expenditure of $500,000, H olio-half or which Is tho gift of tho president of tho museum, Edward Dmmmond. Llbboy. the other half havjng been raised by popular subscription sub-scription in sums ranging from 10 cents to $10,000. Moro than 20,000 citlzons subscribed to the fund. The building opens free from debt und will be supported by 1,200 contributing members. George V. Stevens, the director, has systematically carried the work of the rauBcum Into tho homep, the factories, the churches, and. tho public schools. Tho Inaugural Inaug-ural exhibition 1b one of the moat Important Im-portant ever brought togethor In this country. Works of art have been sent from the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Chicago Art institute, the National Museum and from many other public and private collections. The exhibition includes works by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gainsborough, Constable, Con-stable, Turner, Watw, Rossottl, Rembrandt, Rem-brandt, Frnnz Hols, Rubons, Manot, 'Monet, Millet. Whlstlur, Sargonr,'Ab-b'oy, Sargonr,'Ab-b'oy, Inness, Wyaut and many other masters past and present An exhibition exhi-bition of tho work of modern American Am-erican sculptors has been arranged iipl Installed by tho National Sculpture Sculp-ture society. TTTBlgaaMM''M"TiM3nfr' |