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Toledo Museum of Art acquires landmark 19th-century photographic series

The museum’s director says F. Holland Day's "The Seven Words" (1898), depicting the artist as Jesus on the cross, is “the most important photograph that people don’t know about”

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Seven photographs, a body that changes for the role, and a Crucifixion that caused a stir 128 years ago. The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired Fred Holland Day's The Seven Words, the most expensive photography purchase it has ever made.

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The Art Newspaper broke the news on Wednesday, September 30, 2026.
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