CINCINNATI.- The Taft Museum of Art will celebrate its diamond anniversary with special exhibitions that complement the Museum’s permanent collection. As the city celebrates its German heritage with Oktoberfest, the Museum offers Romanticism to Post-Impressionism: 19th-Century German Art from the Milwaukee Art Museum. Gothic architecture, contemporary writing, and the beauty of the landscape became new sources of inspiration for Romantic artists such as Schinkel, Olivier, and Friedrich. This exhibition traces the developments that shaped the course of German art during a time of great national change.

Families are once again invited to celebrate the holiday season at the Taft, when An Antique Christmas at the Taft Museum of Art returns. Festive ornaments and decorations from regional private collectors will adorn the historic house.

The 75th Anniversary Gala will take place on November 29 – the actual 75th anniversary of the day the Museum opened in 1932. The gala will feature the opening for Jewels of Time: Watches from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute. These beautiful and historic timepieces call to mind the Tafts’ own collection of watches, as well as recognize the watch and clock making industries that are a part of Cincinnati’s history.

The exhibition From Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper: American Watercolor Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum looks at how the art of watercolor evolved over the course of the 19th century. Although the medium was regarded as secondary to oil painting around 1800, artists and their American audience came to view finished works in watercolor as objects worthy of exhibition and collecting. From Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper offers a survey of diverse and compelling watercolors depicting the ever-changing American scene with works by Thomas Hart Benton, John La Farge, Thomas Moran, William Trost Richards, and John Singer Sargent.

The anniversary season concludes with an exhibition from Italy’s famed Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The Taft will be the only regional showing of the exhibition, Painting the Italian Landscape: Views From the Uffizi. This exhibition illustrates in a chronological review the evolution of the genre from the Renaissance of Botticelli to the Enlightenment of Canaletto. The works are drawn entirely from the unequaled collections of the Uffizi.