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Adler, Blanche, 1877-1941 print view role Collector dates 1877-1941 city Baltimore state MD sex F historical notes Blanche Adler was an art collector, Baltimore Museum Trustee and an Honorary Curator of Prints. Her father, Charles Adler, was a Baltimore shoe manufacturer and her sister, Sadie May Adler, was a fellow art collector. Blanche collected modern prints; lithographs, etchings, and woodcuttings by modern artists from, among other places, the United States, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany and England. Among the American artists represented in her collection were Gordon Grant, Earl Horter, Thomas Handforth, Leon Kroll, Rockwell Kent, Kuniyoshi, Louis Lozowick, Charles Sheeler, Alexander Brock, Wanda Gag, Peggy Bacon, Henrietta Shore, and Walt Kuhn. The work by French artists included Henri Matisse, Aristide Maillol, Charles Dufresne and Georges Renault. Spain was represented in her collection by Pablo Picasso; Mexico by Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco; England by Laura Knight; and Germany by Kathe Kollwitz, Lyonel Feininger, Karl Hofer and Max Beckmann. decades of activity 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 updated 10/31/2024 13:33:19 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) Search Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library and Archives Papers of William J. Collins, 1902-1958. see details... Baltimore Museum of Art The E. Kirkbride Miller Art Research Library Blanche Adler see details... see also: May, Saidie Adler, 1879-1951 Cone, Claribel, 1864-1929 Cone, Etta Cone, Frederic W. «  back