CollectionJune 11, 2020
Baltimore Museum of Art Receives $3.5 M. to Endow Matisse Studies Center Directorship
The Baltimore Museum of Art has received a $3.5 million gift, from a longtime supporter, to endow the directorship for its Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies, which is currently slated to open in fall 2021. The new post will be taken up by Katy Rothkopf, the museum’s senior curator and department head of European painting and sculpture, taking his role on July 1, 2020.
The BMA has one of the largest collections of work by Matisse of any art museum, which includes 500 from a 1949 donation by sisters Claribel and Etta Cone. To this group of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and illustrated books, the BMA has added more than 500 works, amassing the world’s biggest and most comprehensive collection of Matisse works in a public museum.
The BMA has one of the largest collections of work by Matisse of any art museum, which includes 500 from a 1949 donation by sisters Claribel and Etta Cone. To this group of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and illustrated books, the BMA has added more than 500 works, amassing the world’s biggest and most comprehensive collection of Matisse works in a public museum.
