Nov 30, 2014

The Baltimore Museum of Art recently celebrated its 100th birthday. In addition the museum reopened its American art galleries after a two-year, $7.9 million restoration. The museum incorporated in November of 1914 and held its first exhibitions in a townhouse off Mount Vernon Square. The current museum was designed by John Russell Pope, who also designed the Jefferson Memorial and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

: The American Wing of the Baltimore Museum of Art reopens as part of the museum’s 100th Anniversary Celebration. The American Wing of the Baltimore Museum of Art reopens as part of the museum’s 100th Anniversary Celebration. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Visitors look at the Tiffany and Friends display in the American Wing. In the center is the “Baptism of Christ” Window, c. 1897, by designer Frank Brangwyn, which was manufactured by Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, New York. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: The “Baptism of Christ” Window, c. 1897, by designer Frank Brangwyn, was manufactured by Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, New York. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Harpist Jasmine Hogan tunes her harp before playing in the Maryland, My Maryland exhibit space of the American Wing. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Jordyn Boone, 8, from Baltimore, holds her brother Austyn Boone, 2, as she looks at the paintings and other artwork in the American Wing of the BMA. She came to the museum with her grandmother, Emma Boone, and two more of her siblings (not pictured). (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Artist George Wesley Bellows painted The Picnic, c. 1924. The painting depicts himself (in straw boater with fishing rod at left) and his family at Cooper Lake in Woodstock, NY, a summer art colony where they often visited. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: The Oval Room from Willow Brook comes from a villa built in 1799 by Thorowgood Smith, a merchant ship owner. Formerly located in the vicinity of what is now Mount and Hollins Streets, the original house was destroyed in 1965, but part of the oval room was moved to the Baltimore Museum of Art. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Marisa O’Connor and her son, Sammy Lavinger, 6, from Baltimore, look at the artwork in the American Wing. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: William Henry Reinhart who was born in Union Bridge, MD in 1825 and died in Rome in 1874, created the marble statue, Atalanta, 1874. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: In the foreground is a sterling silver ice bowl and spoon designed in 1870 and manufactured by Gorham Manufacturing Company in Providence, Rhode Island. According to the description, “Following the discovery of Nevada’s Comstock Lode in 1859, silver was plentiful, becoming even cheaper after Congress embraced the gold standard in 1873….” (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Kathy Koch from Baltimore is reflected in the mirrors of the vanity designed in 1939 by New York designer Gilbert Rohde. The piece was part of the “3920 Series” bedroom furniture series manufactured by Herman Miller, Inc. from Zeeland, Michigan. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Suse Cairns, digital content manager for the BMA, and Ian Anderson, both from Baltimore, look at the artwork in the American wing. At left is the marble statue of Clytie, 1872 by William Henry Rinehart, who was born in Union Bridge, MD in 1825, and died in Rome in 1874. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: The marble statue of Clytie (1872) by William Henry Rinehart, born in Union Bridge, MD in 1825, is featured in the Maryland, My Maryland exhibit space in the American Wing. Rinehart died in Rome in 1874. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Kristen Rickard from Baltimore holds her daughter, Lydia, eleven months old, as they look at the artwork in the American Wing. The oil on canvas at right is, “The Amazon,” (1925-26) by the American artist, Joseph Stella. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: The “50 Dozen” Chair designed by Jeremy Alden in 2005 is made of 600 Dixon Ticonderoga #2 pencils glued together. According to the museum description, the chair, “….smudges the boundaries between mass production and fine art…” (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: This is a detail of the seat of the “50 Dozen” Chair designed by Jeremy Alden in 2008, which is made of 600 Dixon Ticonderoga #2 pencils glued together. According to the museum description, the chair, “….smudges the boundaries between mass production and fine art…” (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: According to this gallery description, “The works of art in this gallery demonstrate America’s cultural achievements during the mid-and late 19th century.” (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: A mantel clock c. 1878 made of wood, porcelain, metal and glass by Lewis Foreman Day is on display in the Tiffany and Friends section of the American Wing. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: The Bookinist (Reading Chair) at left was designed in 2007 by Nils Holger Moormann, and is made of foil-covered birch plywood, felt, rubber, aluminum and chinz. The Reading Chair at right, c.1835, is an imitation of the style of chair made by Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel in the early decades of the nineteenth century. The chair is made of walnut and brass with leather upholstery. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Emma Boone from Baltimore visits the American Wing of the Baltimore Museum of Art which reopens as part of the museum’s 100th Anniversary Celebration. She brought four grandchildren with her (not pictured) to see the artworks. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: The porcelain oyster plate designed by Theodore Russell Davis is part of a set of china created for President Rutherford Hayes between 1879-1880. Each plate is different and depicts, “habitats across the United States…” (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Michelle Fitzgerald, from Columbia, left, and Emily Huebner from Frederick, who both work for the Maryland State Archives, look at, “The Thomas Johnson Family, 1772 painting by Charles Willson Peale in the “Maryland, My Maryland” exhibit space in the American Wing. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: “The Thomas Johnson Family, 1772” oil on canvas by Charles Willson Peale hangs in the “Maryland, My Maryland” exhibit space in the American Wing. At right is the marble bust of Charles Carroll Harper, 1838, by Thomas Crawford, who was born in New York, NY in 1813, and died in London in 1857. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

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