The Walters Art Museum’s Ninetieth Anniversary
In 2024, the Walters Art Museum reached an important milestone: ninety years as a cultural institution housing, preserving, and sharing expressions of human creativity with the residents of Baltimore and the world. In this ninetieth anniversary volume, we take time to celebrate and reflect on what makes the Walters the Walters and highlight the innovations and practices that keep the Walters and its collections essential, accessible, and vital to our cultural landscape.
Essays
History of the Walters Department of Conservation and Technical Research: The First Fifty Years
Julie Lauffenburger
Illuminating a Curatorial Career: An Interview with Lilian M. C. Randall
Lynley Anne Herbert
Contemporary Art Collecting in the Twenty-First Century at the Walters Art Museum
Adriana Proser and Chandi Kelley
The Business and Politics of William T. Walters’s Collection of American Art
Kristen Nassif
Notes
“Pearl Figure” of a Black African Captive
Jenny Carson
“The Joy of Pure Enchantment, Fragile and Lasting Beauty”: Two Transparent Enamel Cups by Fernand Thesmar (1843–1912) in the Walters Art Museum
Jo Briggs
The Transparent Enamel Cups of Fernand Thesmar: Considerations on Technique
Gregory Bailey
Conserving the Haze: The Arch of Nero by Sanford Robinson Gifford
Pamela Betts
Analysis of Black Material Applied to Historic Copper-Alloy Ethiopian Processional Crosses
Gregory Bailey, Katharine Shulman, and Angela Elliott
Ethiopian Icon Painting Practices: Examination and Technical Research on a Selection of Paintings
Karen French
A Technical Study of the Materials Used for the Writing and Illumination of Ethiopian Manuscripts
Abigail B. Quandt and Annette S. Ortiz Miranda
Restoring Visual Integrity to a Pair of Eighteenth-Century Ormolu Wall Lights
Austin Anderson and Jen Mikes
Two Wax Portraits of David Garrick by James Tassie
Gregory Bailey
The Walters’ Lesser-Known Visigothic Eagle Fibula
Gregory Bailey
