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Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore(Also friends of Gertrude Stein and on the PARIS SCENE of Impressionist Artists of that Era)
May 6, 2011 - September 25, 2011
Henri Matisse fondly called Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone my two Baltimore ladies. The two Cone sisters began buying art directly out of the Parisian studios of avant-garde artists in 1905. Although the sisters' taste for modern art was little understoodcritics disparaged Matisse at the time and Pablo Picasso was virtually unknownthe Cones followed their passions and amassed one of the worlds greatest art collections including artworks by Matisse, Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, and other modern masters.
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The Cone Sisters Bought Paintings by Matisse, Picasso and Others
As daughters of prosperous German-Jewish immigrants, the Cone sisters were well-educated and widely traveled. In Paris, Claribel and Etta spent time with the doyenne of the Parisian avant-garde, Gertrude Stein, and her brother Leo, who influenced their collecting. The Steins introduced them to Picasso and Matisse and the sisters became friends and patrons of both artists. In travels across Europe and expeditions to Africa and Asia, they also acquired textiles and decorative arts.
Living with Art
The Cone sisters amassed an exceptional collection of approximately 3,000 objects, which were displayed in their Baltimore apartments. Their nephew Edward T. Cone described the ambience in their adjoining residences in Baltimores Marlborough Apartments as
really a collection of collections, and in the Marlborough one could see them allif one had weeks to spend. There were pictures, to be sure: oils, water colors, drawings, prints. There were sculptures: marble, bronze, wood. There were rugs and furniture. There were laces, shawls, textiles and fabrics of all kinds. There were antique jewelry and objets dart. And all these were used, they were enjoyed, they were lived with.
Claribel and Etta Cone bequeathed their extensive collection of art and objects to The Baltimore Museum of Art upon Ettas death in 1949.
The Exhibition
Victorian sisters.
Their radical collection.
In New York at last.Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore features over 50 of these works of artincluding paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin, Renoir, van Gogh, Pissarro, Courbet and moreon loan from The Baltimore Museum of Art. In addition to modern masterpieces, the exhibition includes textiles and decorative arts from Europe, Asia and Africa that the Cones collected, as well as photographs and archival materials to highlight the remarkable lives of these Jewish sisters. Also featured in the museum galleries will be an interactive virtual tour of their adjoining Baltimore apartments, showing their remarkable collection as it was displayed in their home.
Karen Levitov
Associate Curator
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/conecollection
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"The Cone Sisters (of NC's Cone Textile Mills) Collecting Mattise and Modern Masters" (Original Post)
KoKo
Mar 2013
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JimDandy
(7,318 posts)1. Interesting history, but
why is old news about a 2011 art exhibt important at this time?