Gallery, American Building: Progress and Digression exhibition, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1939
Creator
Baltimore Museum of Art
Subject
The Baltimore Museum of Art; Art museums--Exhibitions; Architecture, American; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); Architecture, Colonial--United States; Architecture and society--United States; Architecture--United States--History--20th century; Architecture--United States--History; Architecture--United States--History--19th century;
Description
View of a gallery with signs and aphorisms hanging from the ceiling in the American Building: Progress and Digression exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art in December 1939. The exhibition hoped to engender greater interest in architecture among Baltimore patrons by displaying the phases of architecture in a new way- with sections tracing the development of building styles in America from the colonial days to the contemporaneous present. The exhibition was originally displayed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and as such highlighted buildings from New York's architecture. For it's presentation at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the museum added displays of Baltimore architecture to each period. In addition to the installation, the exhibition also included a lecture by John McAndrew, the curator of Architecture and Industrial Art in the Museum of Modern Art.
Publisher (Electronic Version)
Archives and Manuscripts Collections, The Baltimore Museum of Art
Holding Institution
Baltimore Museum of Art
Date Original
1939
Date Digital
2012
Type
Image;
Format
1 black and white negative, 12.5 x 17.5 cm.
Source
Photograph Collection, Exhibitions Series
Coverage (Time Period)
1931-1940;
Rights
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