Improving Storage of Evergreen Museum and Library's Works on Paper Collection

FAIN: PG-271672-20

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218-2608)
Lori Finkelstein (Project Director: January 2020 to March 2022)

A preservation assessment and purchase of storage furniture and supplies for a collection of 906 works of art on paper in the collection of the Evergreen Museum. The historic house museum interprets two generations of the Garrett family, who lived in the building from 1876 to 1952 and were noted Baltimore philanthropists and collectors of fine and decorative art. The print collection includes a number of engravings after Peter Paul Rubens and works by modern masters such as Leon Bakst, Raoul Dufy, Edgar Degas, and Amedeo Modigliani.

This project will improve the preventive conservation efforts of Evergreen Museum & Library located in Baltimore, Md. The historic house museum, once home to two generations of Maryland's Garrett Family, seeks to improve storage of its works on paper collection, which consists of approximately 900 items by artists dating to the late-19th through mid-20th centuries, including artists Bakst, Modigliani, Dufy, Rodin, and Zuloaga, among others. If awarded, NEH funding would support an overall condition assessment of the collection by a paper conservator, and purchase of storage furniture and preservation supplies to implement conservator re-housing recommendations.