Baltimore Museum of Art
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The Baltimore Museum of Art, located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is an art museum that was founded in 1914. Its main building built in 1929, in the "Roman Temple" architectural style, under the design of famous architect John Russell Pope, (1878-1937), the Museum is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th Century and early 20th Century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914, as the Municipal Art Museum with a single painting, the B.M.A. today has over 90,000 works of art—including the largest holding of works by Henri Matisse in the world. It is located between the 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 The Johns Hopkins University, though the museum is an independent institution, not affiliated with the University.
The highlight of the museum is the Cone Collection, works by Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Gauguin, van Gogh, and Renoir, brought together by famed Baltimore collecting sisters Dr. Caribel, (1864-1929), and Miss Etta Cone, (1870-1949).
See also
- Walters Art Museum, (formerly the Walters Art Gallery), a public art museum in Baltimore
- William Thompson Walters,
- Henry Walters,
- Claribel Cone, donator, Cone Collection
- Etta Cone, donator, Cone Collection
- Saidle May, donator
- Paysage bord du Seine, Renoir painting
