"The May Queen", 1900, by Margaret Macdonald (Courtesy The Walters Art Museum)
Baltimore-based arts journalist Richard Selden leads a tour to the Walters Art Museum, where the exhibition Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the revolutionary Scottish architect who defined a unique vision of art nouveau design.
Featuring a variety of media including furniture, posters, textiles, architectural drawings, books, and ceramics, the exhibition presents Mackintosh’s work in the context of his key predecessors, contemporaries, and the international influences from which they drew inspiration, including Japanese sword guards, Islamic tiles, and extraordinary book bindings.
Participants also visit the furniture galleries at the Maryland Historical Society, which include many pieces of veneered and painted furniture from the early 19th century, the golden age of Baltimore furniture production.
The group lunches at the Alexander Brown restaurant, which opened this year in an historic National Register building dating to 1901.
Fringe stop at about 8:55 a.m.
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