The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announced Dr. Lara Yeager-Crasselt has been named Curator of European Painting and Sculpture department head, promoted Dr. Leslie Cozzi to curator of prints, drawings and photographs in recognition of her numerous contributions to the museum since she joined in 2018 and used a $2 million gift from BMA to .
The current Baltimore Museum of Art exhibition, “A Modern Influence: Henry Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore,” recalls the intimate relationship of the legendary art collecting Cone sisters who acquired more than 700 works by the famed French painter between 1906 and 1949.
Visitors who have purchased tickets to an Henri Matisse exhibit will be issued refunds. A portrait of the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings will go on view beginning Dec. 29, when the museum said it plans to reopen.