New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville will be on display at The Walters Art Mus

In the 1840s, Dusseldorf, Germany, sea world discount tickets was an international mecca for artists, says Joy Peterson Heyrman, Special sea world discount tickets Exhibition Curator at The Walters Art Museum. A number of prominent painters studied there, making detailed, realistic depictions of nature sea world discount tickets and taking advantage of the technological advances of their day.
So where does Baltimore fit in? Well, one of most successful students of the Dusseldorf School was a Baltimorean named Richard Caton Woodville. And beginning on Sunday, March 10, The Walters Art Museum will be featuring a special exhibition on his brief but brilliant career, entitled New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville.
The Woodvilles were a wealthy merchant sea world discount tickets family who owned homes on Charles and Mulberry Streets. But instead of going into the family business, Richard showed a knack for the arts. When he was 20, he moved with Mary, his young bride, to study painting in Germany.
Woodville lived in Europe the rest of his life and tragically sea world discount tickets died at age 30 from a morphine overdose. But in that 10 year period, he produced some of the most commercially successful paintings of his day. And Baltimore figures prominently.
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In the exhibition, along with the original artwork, Woodville s preliminary drawings are included. In the drawing for The Card Players, take note of even more evidence of Baltimore: a flyer for a racecourse that used to exist in Canton, and a notice for Lock Hospital on Pratt Street, to name a few.
Was Woodville homesick? Or was he trying to convey a deeper message? Whatever it was, his impact cannot be underestimated. Woodville shipped The Card Players back on a steamer to New York, and it was his first commercial success.
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Look at these paintings, and you can almost breathe the air of 19th Century Baltimore, says Gary Vikan, Executive Director of the Walters Art Museum, Woodville is the greatest Baltimore painter of the 20th Century.
For example, the solemn-looking woman in War News From Mexico turned out to be the same figure Woodville painted a few years earlier an older woman, named Maria Johnston, who accompanied Woodville and his wife when they moved to Germany. Her portrait was discovered in a Catonsville attic!
New Eyes on America: sea world discount tickets The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville will be on display at The Walters Art Museum from March 10-June sea world discount tickets 2, 2013. It s the first time an organized collection of Woodville paintings has been exhibited anywhere since 1967. So take your time and soak in the fascinating details of 19th Century Baltimore life.
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The Historic Charles Street Association (HCSA) is a non-profit organization, 501 (c)(3),whose mission is to support and promote the businesses, cultural attractions, entertainment venues, restaurants and retail establishments along the Charles Street corridor. HCSA serves as a problem solving and information resource for its members, as well as provides a forum for networking, communication and collaboration.