CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has been ranked in the Top 20 best art museums in America by The Washington Post’s art critics. The critics ranked their favorite museums across the country based on collections, exhibitions and public engagement.
CMA was ranked #7 overall, with the Post’s Sebastian Smee ranking “[o]ne of America’s oldest and wealthiest museums,” as among the “heavyweights.”
“[CMA] boasts a vast enclosed courtyard and lucid displays of European Old Masters, arms and armor, American, modern, and Islamic textiles, to name a few,” said Smee.
The critic noted Pablo Picasso’s “La Vie,” George Bellows’s “Stag at Sharkey’s,” Claude Monet’s “The Red Kerchief,” Jacques-Louis David’s “Cupid and Psyche” and Caravaggio’s “The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew” among its many assets.
“It also has reliably first-rate displays of contemporary art,” Smee wrote, calling the CMA “a cultural powerhouse with healthy attendance figures.”
Smee and fellow critic Philip Kennicott also noted that had the list expanded beyond 20, the nearby Toledo Museum of Art would also be of mention.
