May 7, 14, 21  2025

1-3 pm

Bower's Museum, Kershaw Auditorium

Lecturer: Annalee Andres

Cost: $115

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In this special three-week series, we will study the gems of America’s modern art collections. We will begin with the Cone Collection – the Baltimore based sisters who were close friends with Henri Matisse, and who built an extraordinary collection of his work.  Their gem of a collection is now part of the Baltimore Museum of Art and features some of the finest modern works in the United States.  We will also consider The Phillips Collection, American’s first museum of modern art, which opened in 1921 in the historic Dupont Circle in Washington DC by the collectors Duncan Philipps and his wife, Eliza Laughlin Phillips.  We will study the contemporary collections of Joseph Hirshhorn, who founded The Hirshhorn museum in 1966, when he donated a vast and diverse array of contemporary art from Abstract Expressionism to Surrealism to the US government, as well as Glenstone,  the beautiful private collection of Emily and Mitch Rales, whose striking works of 20th and 21st century art are presented elegantly it in a series of indoor and outdoor spaces designed to facilitate meaningful encounters.

Pay $115

Zelle:  annaleeandres@gmail.com 

Venmo: @artincontext 

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