Upcoming Exhibitions
Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon
October 4, 2009–January 17, 2010
Free exhibition
This dramatic exhibition showcases works by some of the greatest artists of the 19th and 20th centuries who were inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling and unforgettable tales. Drawn largely from the BMA’s renowned collection, these rarely seen prints, drawings, and illustrated books explore the enduring legacy of Poe's uniquely dark fiction on modern artists such as Edouard Manet and Paul Gauguin. Three thematic areas are explored in the exhibition—love and loss, fear and terror, and madness and obsession—with compelling images inspired by The Raven, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and other Poe classics.
Matisse as Printmaker
October 25, 2009–January 3, 2010
Free exhibition
This comprehensive exhibition, featuring more than 150 of Matisse’s prints created between 1900 and 1951, is drawn from two extraordinary collections of works by Henri Matisse—the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation and The Baltimore Museum of Art. Every printmaking medium Matisse used is represented: etchings, monotypes, aquatints, lithographs, and linocuts (all in black and white) as well as his two color prints. Several of his best illustrated books, such as the Poésies de Stephane Mallarmé (1932), Pasiphaë (1944), and Jazz (1947), demonstrate the artist’s brilliant innovations in arranging printed images to control the experience of serial imagery. A selection of painting and sculpture from the BMA's Cone Collection are included to illustrate the integration of Matisse's use of different mediums.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by BMA Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs Jay Fisher that explores Matisse’s use of printmaking throughout his career. It also reprints a seminal essay by curator William Lieberman from 1956, the first significant study of Matisse’s prints.
This presentation unites works drawn from the collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art with Matisse as Printmaker: Works from the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.
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Cézanne and American Modernism
October 25, 2009–January 3, 2010
Ticketed exhibition
This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to explore how Cézanne transformed modern art in America. The show features 16 stunning paintings and watercolors by the French master alongside a wide range of works by more than 30 American artists, from Marsden Hartley and Maurice Prendergast to Alfred Stieglitz and Man Ray.
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) had a profound influence on generations of artists, but until now, there has never been a thorough examination of his impact on American art. This nationally traveling exhibition, organized by The Montclair Art Museum in collaboration with The Baltimore Museum of Art, includes more than 80 paintings, works on paper, and photographs by a diverse group of American artists who played a leading role in introducing Modernism in America. Innovative works by Max Weber, Morgan Russell, Arshille Gorky, and others demonstrate the range of artistic responses to Cézanne's abstract style, color palette, and subjects such as apples, bathers, and mountains.
The exhibition opens at the Montclair Art Museum (September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010) and travels to the Phoenix Art Museum (July 3–September 26, 2010) following its presentation in Baltimore. It is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue co-published by Yale University Press.
