Word: claribel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buzzing excitement of Paris' Salon d'Automne, two proper Baltimore sisters looked about them aghast. "Surely," said the older, "we are not expected to take this art seriously!" Even the painters -Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Rouault-were unknowns. It was 1905, and for the two Cone sisters. Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta, it was the year of their baptism into a new world...
Skewers & Old Lace. Dr. Claribel was an early feminist and a pioneer female medical graduate (although she never practiced). She sailed boldly through life, swathed in ankle-length dresses and huge Spanish shawls, topped off with Hindu skewers in her coiffure. Once, at the opera in Munich, Kaiser Wilhelm II offered Dr. Claribel his arm, on the assumption that she was a duchess. In art, Dr. Claribel's choices included Matisse's early Blue Nude (1907) and Cézanne's monumental Mont Ste Victoire. In sharp contrast, soft-spoken Miss Etta, an accomplished pianist and lover...
Bronzes & White Gloves. Dr. Claribel, before her death in 1929, advised her sister to give their collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art only "when the spirit of appreciation for modern art in Baltimore becomes improved." Miss Etta devoted the next 20 years to caring for the collection, cleaning the pictures herself, insisted movers wear white gloves when handling pictures. While rounding out the collection with 19th century French masters, she increasingly concentrated on the work of Matisse. Today the collection of 42 Matisse oils (spanning the years from 1895 to 1947) and 18 bronzes provides a superb record...