Walters Art Museum

Baltimora / Stati Uniti d'America

Il Walters Art Museum, già Walters Art Gallery è il principale museo di arti visive di Baltimora , negli Stati Uniti. Il nucleo originario del museo risale alle collezioni di William Thompson Walters , residente a Parigi dallo scoppio della guerra civile americana, e Henry Walters , che completò la collezione e la sistemò in un palazzo appositamente costruito in Charles Street, aperto al pubblico nel 1909. Alla morte di Henry Walters, il museo, con i suoi 22.000 pezzi, e l'edificio che lo ospitava, vennero donati alla città di Baltimora, "a beneficio della comunità". Le collezioni del Walters Art Museum spaziano dall'Antico Egitto alla scultura greca e romana, dai manufatti medievali ai codici miniati, dai dipinti di maestri europei, ai bronzetti rinascimentali, fino all'arte del XIX secolo, all'arte orientale ed alle arti applicate. Nel 2000 il museo cambiò nome, per riflettere meglio la sua vocazione di istituzione pubblica. L'anno successivo il museo venne riaperto in una sede ampliata al termine di tre anni di lavori di ammodernamento e ristrutturazione.

Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimora / Stati Uniti d'America

Il Baltimore Museum of Art è un museo di arte antica, arte moderna ed arte contemporanea fondato nel 1914, e si trova in Art Musen Drive a Baltimora negli Stati Uniti. È situato tra il Charles Village e il quartiere di Remington, adiacente al campus della Johns Hopkins University, sebbene il museo sia un'istituzione indipendente e non affiliate all'università. Il museo espone opere di: Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Giambattista Pittoni, Jackson Pollock, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, ecc. I pezzi più importanti fanno parte della Cone Collection.

Peale Museum

Baltimora / Stati Uniti d'America

The Peale Museum, officially the Municipal Museum of the City of Baltimore, was a museum of paintings and natural history, located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It occupied the first building in the Western Hemisphere to be designed and built specifically as a museum. The museum was created by Charles Willson Peale and his son Rembrandt Peale . It functioned separately as Baltimore City's historical museum while the original structure was being rebuilt, restored, and renovated in 1930–1931, and then merged with other historic sites, houses and museums in the early 1980s under the expansive efforts of a new executive director, with the name of the Baltimore City Life Museums and a broader mission in conjunction with the other historical locations/sites/structures in Baltimore. After opening a new three-story exhibition gallery, uniquely using the old cast-iron façade of the razed Fava Fruit Company and being re-assembled on the new structure facing North Front Street and the parallel new President Street boulevard , the new gallery and the B.C.L.M. ran into financial difficulties in the first year after the grand opening, coincidentally during the bicentennial celebration of Baltimore's establishment as a city. The Peale branch of the City Life Museums closed with the other branches, historic houses and sites later in 1997, after being refused a one-year extension of its five-year subsidy of about $300,000 annually by then Mayor Kurt Schmoke. Its large collections from over 66 years of original existence were disassembled, transferred and handed over to the Maryland Historical Society, founded 1844, now located on the city block on the southwest corner of West Monument Street and Park Avenue, centered in the old Enoch Pratt Mansion and adjacent research library and museum exhibition areas building. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.Today, the museum is being renovated and relaunched as the Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture through a partnership between Baltimore's Department of General Services, which owns the building, and the Board of the Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture, a 501 tax-exempt, non-profit corporation. It is closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but anticipates re-opening soon.

Maryland Center for History and Culture

Baltimora / Stati Uniti d'America

The Maryland Center for History and Culture ), founded on March 1, 1844, is the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. state of Maryland. The organization "collects, preserves, and interprets objects and materials reflecting Maryland's diverse heritage". The MCHC has a museum, library, holds educational programs, and publishes scholarly works on Maryland.

Università Johns Hopkins

Baltimora / Stati Uniti d'America

L'Università Johns Hopkins è un'università degli Stati Uniti. Si tratta di un istituto universitario privato di Baltimora nel Maryland, fondato nel 1876 durante la presidenza di Ulysses S. Grant, grazie al lascito di 7 milioni di dollari donati dall'uomo d'affari statunitense Johns Hopkins. Successivamente, nel 1893, lo stesso lascito finanziò l'apertura del Johns Hopkins Hospital destinato anche a una facoltà di medicina. L'Università Johns Hopkins è organizzata in 10 divisioni: nei campus nel Maryland e Washington, con centri internazionali in Italia, Cina e Singapore.L'istituzione è definita come la prima "università di ricerca" del paese. All'inizio della sua storia l'università è sempre stata ispirata principalmente dall'Università di Heidelberg e dal modello di insegnamento tedesco secondo Wilhelm von Humboldt.

Amalie Rothschild

Baltimora / Stati Uniti d'America

Amalie Rothschild was an American artist who lived and worked within the art community of Baltimore, Maryland. An accomplished painter and sculptor, she was also an art teacher, philanthropist, patron, and cultural advocate. Over the course of a long career, she made oil and acrylic paintings as well as drawings, watercolors, and other paper works. She also sculpted using found objects, Plexiglas, metals, and particleboard. Originally working in a realist style, she became well known for geometric abstractions based on figurative subjects. In 1993 a critic described this approach as "[walking] a tightrope between the abstract and the representational with a suggestion of three-dimensional depth." Rothschild was by choice a regional artist. Although she occasionally exhibited elsewhere, she did not actively promote her career outside a mid-Atlantic region centered on Baltimore. Thus, in 1997 a critic wrote, "Amalie Rothschild is a fixture and ornament of the Baltimore art world." At the time of her death a critic gave this career summary: "She was one of the leading artists of her time in this area. Her work is thoroughly modern and related to geometric abstraction, but without losing the figure. It has emotional reserve, often contains a hint of humor and at times recalls the childlike sagacity of the great Paul Klee."