THE CONE SISTERS OF BALTIMORE

At the turn of the twentieth century, sisters Etta and Claribel Cone began to amass a collection of 3,000 objects, forming one of the world's greatest holdings of early European Modernism. This entire collection was donated to the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1949. The highlight of the Cone Collection is a group of works by Henri Matisse, making The Baltimore Museum of Art's Matisse collection the largest and most comprehensive in the world.

and guess what?

The works of this amazing collection will be on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery this summer!  Make sure to visit the gallery and view this remarkable collection which also includes works from Gustave Courbet, Pierre–Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh, among others.

Paul Gauguin
Vahine no te vi (Woman of the Mango), 1892
oil on canvas
The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland, BMA 1950.213