Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) Acquires More Than 200 Works

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announced that it has acquired more than 200 works across its encyclopedic collection. The acquisitions reflect the BMA’s ongoing commitment to expanding its holdings with works that represent global voices, across time and culture, as well as those by artists with ties to the Baltimore region. This approach to collection growth ensures that the museum can share with its audiences a depth of perspectives, experiences, and artistic innovations, from its own arts community and well beyond.

Among the contemporary works acquired are paintings, sculpture, ceramics, and mixed media objects by Bernadette Despujols, Rhea Dillon, Hew Locke, Roberto Lugo, Raúl de Nieves, Dyani White Hawk, and Billie Zangewa, and photographs and works on paper by Bethany Collins, Shihoko Fukumoto, Lyle Ashton Harris, Naoya Hatakeyama, Rinko Kawauchi, Nikki S. Lee, Samella Lewis, and Stacey Lynn Waddell.

Historical works entering the collection include the paintings Portrait of Sultan Abdulhamid I (r. 1774-89) (early 19th century) by an unknown artist who may have been a follower of Konstanin Kapidagli, Peonies (c. 1918) by Norwegian artist Margrethe Jensen, and a pastel drawing of a Young Girl with Headscarf (c. 1885) by Henriette Daux; a vessel with human figure (before 1928) by Voania of Muba; decorative and functional objects such as a Deccan embroidered floor spread (late 18th century), a dandelion clock (1903), and two vases (c. 1903) by Alfred Daguet; and a cribbage board with high-relief decoration of fish, a seal, a wolf, and foxes (c. 1910) attributed to an unidentified Cup’ig artist.

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