| Adler, Blanche, 1877-1941 | ||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||
| dates | 1877-1941 | |||||||||
| city | Baltimore | |||||||||
| state | MD | |||||||||
| sex | F | |||||||||
| history |
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. |
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| decades | 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 |
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| updated | 03/22/2024 12:09:30 | |||||||||
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