Extraordinary Gifts: Selected Paintings from The Procter and Gamble Collection at the Cincinnati Art Museum February 15, 2003 to September 12, 2004 Extraordinary Gifts: Selected Paintings from The Procter and Gamble Collection at the Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati Art Museum logo
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   The Procter & Gamble Company is extremely pleased to celebrate this gift of paintings to the Cincinnati Art Museum. These seventy-eight paintings join the Museum’s already significant collection of works by artists who were trained or worked in Cincinnati in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. When the Museum’s new Cincinnati Wing opens in May, area residents and visitors will be able to discover and enjoy this art as never before. The Procter & Gamble Company welcomes this opportunity to contribute to this celebration of the city’s remarkable heritage.
   This donation would not have been possible without the vision and expertise of two specific individuals. John Smale, now retired chief executive of the company, made the decision in 1981 to assemble paintings by renowned Cincinnati artists for display in our executive offices. To accomplish this, he turned to Phyllis Weston, one of the city’s foremost authorities on Cincinnati art. She is the person most responsible for the quality and breadth of the works being donated to the Museum. Thanks to the vision of John Smale and Phyllis Weston, generations of art lovers will come to benefit from this legacy.

Bruce Byrnes
Vice Chairman of the Board, The Procter & Gamble Company
and Trustee, Cincinnati Art Museum
Edward H. Potthast (1857–1927)
Long Beach, ca. 1922
oil on canvas
24 x 30 in.