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The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, March 25 – May 24, 1998
No full textThe Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties, on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art from March 25 through May 24, 1998, featured over 100 works from the American Pop Art movement. Dubbed "multiples," these items were afforable and easily reproduced pieces that could be widely distributed while challenging the idea that art must be unique, rare, and painstakingly crafted by hand
A Century of American Photography/A Decade of Acquisitions exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 22, 1997 – January 11, 1998
No full textThe BMA's photographs collection came of age with the 1988 acquisition of the Dalsheimer collection of 700 photographs, particularly strong in American 20th-century works. In the decade since, the museum has continued to collect. This exhibition concentrates on works not shown before, and two of its focuses are documentary photography of the 1930s to 1950s and contemporary photography
BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, April 9 – June 8, 1997
No full textThe Baltimore Museum of Art's print and drawing collection is best known for its French 19th century works. Its collection of American 19th century works is much smaller but includes some choice names. This exhibit features such works as Thomas Eakins' portrait of his father-in-law (about 1891), four watercolors by Winslow Homer dating from the 1880s and 1890s and two pastel drawings from the 1890s by Mary Cassatt, as well as works by Benjamin West, John Singer Sargent and Nicolino Calyo. In all, there were about 50 works in the show
Majesty in Miniature: The Kings and Queens of England from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 12, 1997 – January 18, 1998
No full textAn exhibition of 102 dolls representing the kings and queens of England, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II. Held in conjunction with the exhibit, "A Grand Design: Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum"
Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People: Highlights from the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, June 25 – October 12, 1997
No full textDuring its life from 1834 to 1907, Currier & Ives, the New York-based firm that's still the best-known printmaking name in America, created more than 7,000 images. When we summon up an idea of the typical Currier & Ives print, we tend to think of going over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house. Of happy families passing sunny days on the farm. Of maple sugaring in Vermont. Of an unhurried, unharried, peaceful vision of life in rural America.
Yes, Currier & Ives did make prints of that kind. But that was by no means all or even the majority of what the firm turned out, as amply demonstrated by "Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People" at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Their subjects included war, politics, sports, urban life, the opening of the West, family life, transportation, morality and literature. All of the above are covered in the 59 prints of this show, which serves as a window on Currier & Ives' America
Art of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, January 29 – April 13, 1997
No full textArt of the Baga: A Drama of Cultural Reinvention traces the art and cultural history of these very special African people from their legendary flight from the mystical highlands of the interior of Guinea to the coast, in their attempt to conserve their own religious ritual, to the eventual destruction of their traditions at mid century with the conversion to Islam and, with independence from France, the establishment of the Republic of Guinea under an iconoclastic Marxist regime. In the book, the Baga voice is heard prominently in the direct testimony of three Baga writers and forty Baga consultants of all ages and background experience, from ten-year-old boys to elders and ritual leaders of over 100 years of age. Artistic creation and reinvention form the core of issues raised throughout the art historical drama
The Age of Rembrandt: Distinguished Prints from the Museum's Collection exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, February 12 – April 13, 1997
No full textAs a pioneering printmaker, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) stood apart from his contemporaries thanks to his innovative approach to composition and his skillful rendering of space and light. He worked with the medium as a vehicle for artistic expression and experimentation, causing many to proclaim him the greatest etcher of all time. Moreover, the dissemination of the artist's prints outside of the Dutch Republic during his lifetime contributed greatly to establishing Rembrandt's reputation throughout Europe. This sumptuously illustrated volume draws on new scholarship on Rembrandt's etchings. Authors Jaco Rutgers and Timothy J. Standring examine the artist's prints from many angles, revealing how he intentionally varied the states of his etchings, printed them on exotic papers, and retouched prints by hand to create rarities for a clientele that valued unique impressions
A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 12, 1997 – January 18, 1998
No full textA Grand Design, published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition, brings together more than 250 of the V & A's finest treasures and recounts the institution's rich and vibrant history. Collectively, these splendid objects illustrate how the museum sought to establish a canon of excellence for the decorative arts by acquiring examples of superior craftsmanship, aesthetic beauty, and artistic merit from many of the world's cultures
Baltimore's Grace Turnbull: A Commemoration exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, May 29 – August 4, 1996
No full textBorn in 1880 to a cultured, local family of wealth "where law, order and tradition reigned supreme," as she later remembered, Turnbull spurned convention to carve a career in art when that was a daring thing for a woman to do.
She led a highly original life as painter, sculptor and author. A small exhibit of her works, titled "Baltimore's Grace Turnbull," opens Wednesday at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
It shows that at her best Turnbull was the creator of accomplished and engaging works, especially in sculpture. It also reflects the fact that, despite her modern leanings in many ways, Turnbull, curiously enough, never embraced the leading movements in the art of her century and remained an essentially conservative artist
A Photographer's Vision: Gifts to the Collection from Barbara Young exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, August 28 – November 3, 1996
No full textDr. Barbara Young, who donated these photographs to the BMA, was a psychoanalyst and professor emeritus of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University.
Young, who graduated from medical school in 1945, began teaching herself photography in 1958. Her interest was prompted by her experience in psychoanalysis and by her own need for a creative outlet.
In 1963, she began to collect the work of photographers who influenced her and whose development paralleled her own.
Sixteen photographs by 12 of those photographers form the backbone of this exhibit. Young is represented here by seven of her own photographs