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Financial SummaryJuly 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019 ($ in
thousands)*
Revenue and Expenses are for ongoing operations and excludes
building-related income and expenses and capital projects.*To view
full financial statement visit cma.org/annualreport.
REVENUE
Endowment and Other Revenue Endowment Revenue 18,364Trust
Revenue 14,353Other Miscellaneous 503 Total Endowment and Other
Revenue 33,220
Contributed Revenue Annual Appeal 1,175 Membership and Circles
5,719Government Support 1,503Sponsorship and Grants 8,592
Total Contributed Revenue 16,989
Earned Revenue Special Exhibition Ticket Revenue 2,538 Program
Revenue 1,124Retail, Parking, and Food Service 3,311
Total Earned Revenue 6,973
EXPENSESOperating Expenses
Curatorial, Conservation, 20,213 Registrar, Programs, and
Special Exhibitions
Art Acquisitions 11,500
Facilities and Protection Services 8,472
General and Administrative 8,104
Philanthropy and External Relations 4,670
Depreciation 2,076
Retail, Parking, and Food Service 2,106
TOTAL REVENUE 57,182 TOTAL EXPENSES 57,141
TOTAL REVENUE
57,182
Total Earned Revenue12%
Total Contributed Revenue30%
Total Endowment and Other Revenue58%
TOTAL EXPENSES
57,141
Philanthropy and External Relations 8%
Facilities and Protection Services 15%
General and Administrative 14%
Retail, Parking, and Food Service 4%
Curatorial, Conservation, Registrar, Programs, and Special
Exhibitions 35%
Depreciation 4%
Art Acquisitions 20%
OFFICERSPeter E. Raskind, ChairmanDr. William M. Griswold,
President, Director, and CEOSarah S. Cutler, Vice Chair and
SecretaryScott C. Mueller, Vice Chair James A. Ratner, Vice Chair
Edward W. Bauer, Treasurer
STANDING TRUSTEESStephen W. BaileyVirginia N. BarbatoDean C.
BarryFrederick E. BidwellLeigh H. CarterRev. Dr. Jawanza K.
ColvinSarah S. CutlerRichard H. FearonHelen Forbes FieldsLauren
Rich FineCharlotte FowlerRobert W. GillespieChristopher GormanAgnes
GundEdward Hemmelgarn Cynthia Ames HuffmanMichelle Jeschelnig
Susan KaesgenNancy F. KeithleyR. Steven KestnerWilliam
LitzlerWilliam P. MadarMilton MaltzEllen Stirn MavecScott C.
MuellerStephen E. MyersKatherine Templeton O’NeillJon H.
OutcaltDominic L. OzanneJulia PollockAlfred M. Rankin Jr.Peter E.
RaskindJames A. RatnerRichard P. StovskyFelton Thomas Daniel P.
Walsh Jr.John C. WaltonPaul E. Westlake Jr.Loyal W. Wilson
EMERITUS LEADERSHIP James T. Bartlett, Chair EmeritusMichael J.
Horvitz, Chair Emeritus Michael Sherwin, Chair Emeritus†
TRUSTEES EMERITI James T. BartlettJames S. BerkmanCharles P.
BoltonTerrance C. Z. EggerMichael J. HorvitzRobert M. KayeToby
Devan LewisAlex MachaskeeS. Sterling McMillan IIIRev. Dr. Otis Moss
Jr.William R. RobertsonElliott L. SchlangDavid M. SchneiderMichael
Sherwin† Eugene Stevens
LIFE TRUSTEESLeigh Carter†Jon A. LindsethMorton L. MandelMrs.
Alfred M. RankinDonna S. ReidEdwin M. Roth
EX OFFICIO TRUSTEESRebecca Carmi, Womens CouncilMegan Stinn,
Column & Stripe
HONORARY TRUSTEESJoyce G. AmesHelen CollisRobert D. GriesMalcolm
KenneyCharlotte Rosenthal KramerRobert MadisonTamar Maltz A. Grace
Lee MimsJohn C. MorleyJane NordJames S. Reid Jr.Barbara S.
RobinsonLaura A. SiegalDr. Evan Hopkins TurnerIris Wolstein
†Deceased
Board of Trustees As of June 30, 2019
2018 | 2019 Annual ReportJuly 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019
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Dear Friends,
CMA staff, trustees, and supporters logged many impressive
accomplishments during the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2019.
The museum experienced historic attendance, hosted a range of
successful exhibitions, and made clear progress toward the goals of
its 2017 strategic plan, steadily advancing its mission to create
transformative experiences through art for the benefit of all the
people forever.
The CMA welcomed nearly 865,000 visitors—more than in any other
12-month period since the museum first opened its doors. If one
adds the 142,000 people whom we estimate participated in our
offsite programs, then we served an audience of more than 1 million
during the past year. Millions more visited the CMA online; engaged
with the museum’s collection by means of our new Open Access
initiative; or encountered us on social media. A rising tide lifts
all boats, and the year also saw increases in earned and
contributed revenue, as well as a record number of members.
The museum hosted a variety of successful exhibitions, starting
with Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors. Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois
Tapestries and Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern acquainted visitors
with two of the most celebrated women in the history of art. Gordon
Parks drew a broad audience, introducing visitors to a seminal
period in the great photographer’s work. And Shinto: Discovery of
the Divine in Japanese Art brought to Cleveland some 125
outstanding works, garnering attention locally as well as
nationally and internationally. In addition, we reinstalled the
museum’s galleries of Northern European paintings, sculpture, and
decorative art as part of an ongoing effort to engage visitors with
the CMA’s internationally renowned permanent collection.
During the same period, we acquired hundreds of significant
works of art, ranging from Filippo Parodi’s spectacular marble
sculpture The Sleeping Christ Child, of about 1675, to Louis
Hayet’s Post-Impressionist painting Bord de l’Oise and 121
paintings created for the rulers of India’s Rajput and Pahari
kingdoms from the 1600s to the 1800s. Over the past two years, we
have nearly doubled the number of schoolchildren who visit the
museum. And we have assiduously pursued the goals of the Diversity,
Equity, and Inclusion Plan that the board approved in 2018,
significantly expanding both the number and the diversity of our
summer interns, ensuring that each internship that we offer is
paid.
We are profoundly grateful to all those who have supported the
accomplishments of the past year. The greatness of the Cleveland
Museum of Art depends on the support of the community that we
serve. And we could not be more appreciative of your generosity and
enthusiasm for our work.
Sincerely,
JULYYayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors offers visitors an immersive
experience of a groundbreaking Japanese artist and will attract
more than 120,000 visitors from 23 countries and all 50 states.
The museum is a major venue for the first FRONT International:
Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, presenting six
exhibitions.
A gift from June and Simon K.C. Li and a grant from The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation establish the Li Center for Chinese Paintings
Conservation.
The first Mary and Leigh Carter Director’s Research Fellow
begins work in an endowed position that furthers the goals of the
CMA’s strategic plan.
AUGUSTWith support from the Cleveland Foundation’s Creative
Fusion program, the CMA announces it will host six international
composers who will create works inspired by the museum’s
encyclopedic collection.
The CMA shares its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Plan,
garnering national press for its leadership in this industry-wide
initiative.
SEPTEMBER The CMA’s acclaimed City Stages series completes a
summer of six free concerts with Gili Yalo’s combination of
Ethiopian roots music and modern jazz on the Nord Family Greenway
outside the museum.
OCTOBER The Transformer Station opens In Her Image: Photographs
by Rania Matar, featuring 43 large-scale portraitures that examine
female identity in girlhood, adolescence, and middle age.
Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer help the museum
acquire 121 Rajput and Pahari paintings from India courts in the
1600s to 1800s, and the art magazine Apollo names the gift to its
shortlist for 2018 Acquisition of the Year.
NOVEMBER The opening of Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’
Medici’s Valois Tapestries showcases 14-foot-high hangings,
including six recently restored tapestries on view for the first
time in North America; 32,557 people see the exhibition, surpassing
the museum’s goal.
The CMA and the Cleveland Foundation host participants in the
Ford and the Walton Family foundations’ Diversifying Art Museum
Leadership Initiative (DAMLI) established to diversify the art
museum field; the day opens with 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner
Tyehimba Jess reading from a work inspired by Edmonia Lewis’s
sculpture Indian Combat in the CMA collection.
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern opens and examines the
fascinating connections between the paintings, personal style, and
public persona of one of America’s most famous painters.
The museum announces the acquisition of giltwood candle stands
made by Thomas Chippendale, the first works by the important
eighteenth-century cabinetmaker to join the CMA’s English furniture
collection.
DECEMBER The Northern European galleries reopen with support
from CMA trustee Sarah S. Cutler and her husband, Alexander M.
Cutler, as part of the CMA’s strategic goal to reimagine its
galleries and give visitors greater context for artwork.
Janice Hammond and CMA trustee Edward Hemmelgarn gift the museum
Still Life with Meat, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruit by the Dutch
painter Jacob van Hulsdonck.
Seth Pevnick joins the museum as Curator of Greek and Roman
Art.
The museum announces the acquisition of Filippo Parodi’s
Sleeping Christ Child, a monumental Italian Baroque sculpture from
1675.
JANUARY The museum unveils its Open Access initiative to make
high-resolution digital images and collections data freely
available over the internet so artists, scholars, and virtual
visitors can share and reuse images of 30,000 CMA artworks.
FEBRUARY The first solo exhibition of Mexican artist Raúl de
Nieves, Fina, opens at the Transformer Station and features a new
site-specific installation of figurative sculptures.
MARCHGordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950 explores
the pioneering work of this celebrated African American
photographer and attracts 39,014 people, 122 percent of the
museum’s goal.
Trustee William Madar and his wife, Amanda, endow the William P.
and Amanda C. Madar Curator of American Painting and Sculpture
endowed position; Mark Cole, at the CMA since 2006, becomes the
first to hold the title.
APRILThe CMA announces the acquisition of 17 drawings from the
golden age of Dutch art; the Louis Hayet’s neo-impressionist
painting Banks of the Oise at Dawn; and the sculpture Laments:
Death came and he looked like . . . created by Jenny Holzer in
response to the AIDS epidemic.
Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art presents works
in calligraphy, painting, sculpture, costume, and decorative arts
assembled from Japanese and American museums, shrines, and Buddhist
temples, including works designated important Cultural Properties
by the Japanese government.
MAYCai Guo-Qiang: Cuyahoga River Lightning opens with three
large-scale works created using gunpowder, including a commissioned
painting tracing the Cuyahoga River’s course as part of Cuyahoga50,
a citywide commemoration of the river catching fire.
The museum releases results from an NEA-funded two-year study of
digital technology in art museums, including the finding that the
CMA’s innovative ARTLENS Gallery made visitors feel more welcome at
the museum.
A new Landscape Master Plan pledges to expand free public access
through new pathway connections and ADA upgrades to the spaces
around the museum.
A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland
celebrates the centennial of the oldest print club in the United
States by showcasing 60 works the club has given the CMA.
JUNE Parade the Circle celebrates its 30th year.
Fueled by landmark exhibitions and new levels of community
engagement, the museum ends its 2019 fiscal year with a historic
attendance total of 864,754 visitors; another 142,000 people
participated in off-site programming, bringing the total number of
people the CMA served between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019, to
more than 1 million.
William M. Griswold, Director and President
2018 | 2019 Highlights
30,000high-resolution
images in Open Access
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FRONTStill Life
Creative Fusion
Open Access
City Stages
Rania Matar
Gordon Parks
Shinto
Cai Guo-Qiang
Parade the Circle
Fina
Georgia O’KeefePeter E. Raskind, Chair, Board of Trustees
Over 37,000students from preschool
to college took CMA tours and field trips
Over 2.4 milliononline and
ArtLens App visitors
Over 142,000attendees and participants
in museum parades and festivals
CMA Members:
Nearly 29,000households
On-site visitors:
864,754
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