Top 10 Highlights at the Taft Museum of Art

The Taft is home to one of the world’s ten most important collections of Renaissance Limoges enamels. One of the nearly eighty French painted enamels on display, this decorative box exhibits the superb precision required of this complex technique.

This colorful and atmospheric depiction of a classical myth is a late work by one of England’s greatest landscape painters. Left unfinished in Turner’s studio at the end of his life, the painting’s expressive nature foreshadows modern art.

Painted by the first Black American artist to achieve international acclaim, these eight remarkable landscape murals represent imagined places likely inspired by Duncanson’s sketching trips along the Ohio River and in other parts of the Midwest and South.

This painting of a woman and girl entranced by the spell of music is considered Whistler’s first masterpiece. The elegant composition and harmoniously balanced color demonstrate Whistler’s belief that a work of art’s beauty is paramount.

Made during the reign of Louis XV (1715–1774), this commode is one of only two pieces of furniture on display that were owned by Charles and Anna Taft. Thin pieces of wood arranged in elaborate floral designs decorate this impressive work of art.