Ingalls Library

The Ingalls Library is now open in its new home, the fourth in the Museum since 1916. The renovated and relocated library facility has been planned with the flexibility necessary to serve our growing and increasingly diverse community of patrons.

The highlight of the new facility is an expanded Reading Room situated at the heart of the space and lit by a combination of natural light from new clerestory windows and table lamps. The Reading Room will comfortably seat 80-100 people and accommodate the research needs of the museum’s curatorial staff and the Case Western Reserve University students and faculty in the Joint Program in Art History.

The Reference Room will contain more seating and house the library’s substantial collection of artist clipping files, microfilm and photograph collections, in addition to the numerous resources already available for reference use. A new seminar room will facilitate small group study and allow for increased library programming and training. The new library will also maintain a comfortable Recent Acquisitions area housing newspapers, current auction catalogues, periodicals and new books.

Come and see the new Ingalls Library in the Arts and Education Center.

Please see the Ingalls Library website library.clevelandart.org for more information and access to Library and Archives resources.

Past Library Exhibition

Kelmscott Press books

Additional research resources

Resources for Art Assessment

Provenance Research

Art & Fiction Book Club

Rodin's "The Thinker"

Kidfilms

Glossary

Recent Magazine Articles

“Good and Beautiful” PDF w/images
Newly acquired Lega masterworks enhance the sub-Saharan African art collection. Constantine Petridis, Associate Curator of African Art

A Quiet Bequest PDF w/images, PDF Unabridged Article
William and Julia Marlatt’s gift to the museum’s collection and library was both unexpected and magnificent. Louis V. Adrean, Associate Librarian for Reader and Circulation Services and Marsha A. Morrow, Acquisitions Assistant