Join in a docent-led tour of the Cone Sisters Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art.  The tour will be held virtually.

The Cone sisters were wealthy Baltimoreans who amassed a world-renowned collection of early 20th century modern art, including over 500 works by Henri Matisse (including The Harbor of Collioure) and significant pieces by Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin and others.  Claribel Cone met Gertrude Stein while both were attending Johns Hopkins University, and the Cone and Stein families became very close.  This connection provided the Cone sisters, on their frequent trips to Paris, with access to the French modernists in a period when such artists were still not well known in the US.

Claribel and Etta Cone integrated art into their lives, supporting avant-garde artists who were yet to become renowned, and purchasing art that appealed to them.  The sisters lived in adjoining apartment and decorated their walls with innovative art.  Their apartment building has lost its exclusivity status, but still stands in Baltimore's Bolton Hill neighborhood - the same neighborhood in which F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his novel "Tender is the Night." 

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