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I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 26 – December 31, 1994
No full textThe exhibit opened earlier this year at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where Judith Stein was an adjunct curator. In addition to Baltimore, the exhibit will appear in Chicago, Cincinnati and New York.
The title comes from a remark Pippin once made -- "Pictures just come to my mind, and I tell my heart to go ahead." -- which indicates his direct and deep response to the world around him, as well as the artist's originality.
Called a "primitive" in his lifetime (when that word was used to describe unschooled artists), he has since been labeled a "folk" or "naive" artist. But, says Stein, "his works are powerful statements that transcend narrow categories.
Maryland Public Treasures: The State of the Arts exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, February 20 – April 17, 1994
No full text"Maryland Public Treasures" brings together 60 objects -- from paintings to furniture, silver to manuscripts, from a weather vane to a rocking horse -- gathered from every corner of Maryland. The curators believe the show is a first, for it brings together objects from Baltimore City and all 23 counties. The objects all come from collections with some public access -- not only museums and historical societies, but also colleges and universities, libraries, churches and historic houses
Richard Serra: Weight and Measure Drawings exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, November 23, 1994 – January 29, 1995
No full textThis exhibition features a series of large-scale paint-stick-on-hiromi-paper drawings by Richard Serra, who, though widely recognized for his mastery of monumental sculptural works in steel, here endows the typically fragile medium of drawing with an almost geological heft
Eugene Leake: Paintings and Drawings exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, January 5 – March 20, 1994
No full textBaltimore gallery-goers have been following Leake's career through his biennial shows at the C. Grimaldis Gallery for 15 years, and we've grown accustomed to expecting more satisfying work with each new installment.
"Eugene Leake: Paintings and Drawings," which opened yesterday at the Baltimore Museum of Art, is broader in scope. It contains a number of sketches in addition to oil paintings, as well as works that go back to 1963. But fully two thirds of the show dates from the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Leake has been at the top of his form
Opening, Classical Taste in America exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, June 26, 1993
No full textUnidentified man in costume at the opening of the exhibition, Classical Taste in America, at The Baltimore Museum of Art, June 26, 1993
The William S. Paley Collection exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 31, 1993 – January 9, 1994
No full textToward the end of the exhibit of the William S. Paley Collection, you can sit down facing a wall of three large paintings by major American abstract artists: Josef Albers' "Homage to the Square in Green Frame" (1963), Morris Louis' "Number 4-31" (1962) and Kenneth Noland's "Sounds in the Summer Night" (1962).
These are far from the core of the Paley collection, for its core lies in the earlier modernism of about 1875 to 1925. But the Albers, Louis and Noland paintings echo a theme sounded throughout this exhibit. In their own non-referential way, they express a sense of order, of calm and of restrained but sensuous beauty
Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840 exhibition, opening, Baltimore Museum of Art, June 27 – September 26, 1993
No full textPhotographs from the Classical Taste in America, 1800-1840 exhibition opening held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, June 26th, 1993
Songs of My People exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, December 18, 1993 – April 3, 1994
No full textSongs of My People, on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art from December 18, 1993 through April 3, 1994, featured the work of 53 photojournalists who set out to document contemporary African-American life. This project was meant to counter the often negative and stereotypical portrayals of news media, and as a result found a rich culture that spanned diverse regional, religious, and political concerns
Drawings of the 1960s from the Benesch Collection exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, November 17, 1993 – January 30, 1994
No full textJay Fisher said the collection is "one of the most important collections of contemporary drawings in any American museum. It is a tribute to [Benesch's] tremendous knowledge of contemporary art and to his tremendous good taste."
Mr. Benesch not only knew the "major figures of the time but had more unusual interests such as Spanish realists," the curator said. As a result, he said, the collection includes one of the few groups of such work in any American museum.
Mr. Fisher noted Mr. Benesch's ability to select the works of young artists who were not yet fully established. He cited a drawing by Jasper Johns that Mr. Benesch bought in the 1960s when the artist was relatively unknown
Opening, Classical Taste in America exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, June 26, 1993
No full textWendy Cooper with David Luckham and Lynne Hastings at the opening of the exhibition, Classical Taste in America, at The Baltimore Museum of Art, June 26, 1993