Exhibition entrance, 200 American Water Colors exhibition, The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1942
Creator
Baltimore Museum of Art
Subject
The Baltimore Museum of Art; Art museums--Exhibitions; Watercolor painting; United States Marine Hospital No. 66 (Carville, La.); United States. Federal Works Agency. Section of Fine Arts; Watercolor painting, American; Painting, American;
Description
View of entrance to the 200 American Water Colors Exhibition, held at the Baltimore Museum of Art in June 1942. The exhibition included the two hundred watercolor works which were chosen as the winners of a government-sponsored competition; the competition allowed artists to submit cheerful watercolors to brighten the walls of the Marine Hospital in Carville, Louisiana. From approximately ten thousand total artists, the Fine Arts Section of the Federal Works Agency chose the winning two hundred for their reflections of realism, fresh style, and light-hearted content. One of the winners, Marguerite Burgess, also displayed her own one-man show in the Baltimore Museum of Art's lower galleries. To accompany the government's selection of artwork, the museum held their own watercolor exhibition from the May and Adler Collections in June- September of the same year.
Publisher (Electronic Version)
Archives and Manuscripts Collections, The Baltimore Museum of Art
Holding Institution
Baltimore Museum of Art
Date Original
1942
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)
1941-1950;
Rights
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