The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in Baltimore, Maryland, is an art museum that was founded in 1914. The BMA's collection of 95,000 objects[1] encompasses more than 1,000 works by Henri Matisse anchored by the Cone Collection of modern art, as well as one of the nation's finest holdings of prints, drawings, and photographs. The galleries currently showcase collections of art from Africa; works by established and emerging contemporary artists; European and American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts; ancient Antioch mosaics; art from Asia, and textiles from around the world.
The 210,000-square-foot (20,000 m2) museum is distinguished by a neoclassical building designed in the 1920s by American architect John Russell Pope and two landscaped gardens with 20th-century sculpture.[2] The museum is located between Charles Village, to the east, Remington, to the south, Hampden, to the west; and south of the Roland Park neighborhoods, immediately adjacent to the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University, though the museum is an independent institution and not affiliated with the university.
The highlight of the museum is the Cone Collection, brought together by Baltimore sisters Claribel (1864–1929) and Etta Cone (1870–1949). Accomplished collectors, the sisters amassed a wealth of works by artists including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, nearly all of which were donated to the museum. The museum is also home to 18,000 works of French mid-19th-century art from the George A. Lucas collection, which has been acclaimed by the museum as a cultural "treasure" and "among the greatest single holdings of French art in the country."[3]
The BMA is currently led by Director Christopher Bedford, who was appointed in May 2016, after a year-long search.[4] Prior to joining the BMA, Bedford led the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Massachusetts for four years. He helped the Rose Art Museum out of international controversy from 2009, when the university proposed selling off the museum's top-notch art collection to help with its struggling finances.[5][6]
Since October 2006, The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum (formerly Walters Art Gallery), have offered free general admission year-round as a result of grants given by Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and several foundations.[7] The museum is also the site of "Gertrude's Chesapeake Kitchen", a popular restaurant owned and operated by chef John Shields.[8]
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^Stanley Mazaroff, A Paris Life, A Baltimore Treasure, Chapter Fourteen, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
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^McCauley, Mary Carole. "Baltimore Museum of Art appoints Christopher Bedford as next director". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2016-05-02.(subscription required)
^Brown, Anne (May 2, 2016). "The Baltimore Museum of Art appoints Christopher Bedford as its new director" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 2, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
^"Free admission at Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Museum begins October 1". Groundbreaking cooperation and financial support from Baltimore and Baltimore County provides greater public access to world-class art. Archived from the original on 2 October 2006. Retrieved September 23, 2006.
^Loudermilk, Suzanne. "Slow pace but spot-on Chesapeake fare at Gertrude's". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
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