Art museums
Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Broadside advertising London exhibition of engraved plates depicting Jean-Baptiste Wicar's Florentine art
Collection — Box BW-5: [Barcode: 31151030141711]
Identifier: MS-0757
Abstract
The headline of the broadside declares the exhibition of: "Pictures, Statues, Basso Relievos, and Engraved Stones, of the Gallery of Florence, and the Pitti Palace, Engraved under the Direction of Mr. Lacombe, Painter, from the Drawings of Mr. Wicar; a Work dedicated To His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany." The advertisement was printed in approximately 1800. Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar (1762-1834) was a French Neoclassical painter and art collector. There is no historical...
Dates:
approximately 1800
Found in:
Special Collections
Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0368
Abstract
Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr. was born in Baltimore in 1903. During the 1930s, he served in the Maryland legislature. In 1938, he founded the Mount Vernon Improvement Association and spent much of the rest of his life fighting to retain the original architectural integrity of Baltimore's Mount Vernon Place. He was also a founder of the Johns Hopkins University Milton S. Eisenhower Library's Friends of the Library. The collection of Douglas Huntly Gordon, Jr. consists mostly of items related to...
Dates:
approximately 1800-1975
Found in:
Special Collections
MOTHA poster
Collection — Map-case OF-1: [Barcode: 31151034382089]
Identifier: MS-1001
Content Description
This collection consists of a poster from the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art (MOTHA), as well as a flyer with a list identifying the 278 people and groups featured in the poster image and information about MOTHA's mission. The poster features images of notable transgender and gender non-conforming public figures, entertainers, and film characters. Featured people include Chelsea Manning, RuPaul, David Bowie, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in...
Dates:
2013
Found in:
Special Collections
Peabody Gallery of Art records
Collection
Identifier: PIRG-08-01
Abstract
The Gallery of Art was one of the four branches of the Peabody Institute outlined in the founding letter from George Peabody in 1857. From the 1870s to 1924 the Gallery functioned as an art school and museum for Baltimore and built a collection that was particularly strong in American art. Most of the Peabody Art Collection was subsequently deaccessioned in the 20th century, with the bulk of the collection landing at the Maryland State Archives in 1996. The Peabody Gallery of Art records...
Dates:
1866 - 2018
Found in:
Peabody Archives