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	Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD
		Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD museumstuff.com :: museums :: Walters Art Museum
		William Walters (1819-94), Henry’s father, had assembled a splendid collection of 19th-century art and Asian art, and under his son’s auspices the collection was transformed into one of the finest of all American private collections.
		The Walters’ Egyptian, Greek and Roman, Byzantine, Ethiopian, and western medieval art collections are among the best in the nation, as are the museum’s holdings of Renaissance and Asian art.
	www.museumstuff.com /rec/org_20020201_17936.html (463 words)

	The Walters Art Museum - Collections
		The Walters is unusual among world museums for the outstanding quality of its collections and for the range of its holdings, which span some 55 centuries-from ancient Egyptian art to late 19th-century European paintings and decorative objects.
		Derived largely from the collection of Baltimore industrialist William T. Walters and his son, Henry Walters, which were donated to the city of Baltimore in 1931 and supplemented thereafter by donations and purchases, the Walters Art Museum houses the highest artistic achievements of both well-known and anonymous artists from nearly every corner of the world.
		The holdings of the Walters are outstanding not only for their quality, but for their range and diversity, spanning some 55 centuries from ancient Egyptian art to late 19th-century European paintings and decorative objects.
	www.thewalters.org /works_of_art/worksofart_overview.aspx (238 words)

	The Making of a Museum: How Henry Walters Brought Art to Baltimore
		The groundwork was laid for the city’s museum in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when Henry Walters began a campaign of collecting art that overshadowed his father’s purchases and rivaled that of J. Pierpont Morgan.
		The discipline of transcribing in his journal his impressions of visits to the museums and monuments of Paris during his adolescence had left its mark, and the years of close association with his father, William, had not only imbued him with a zeal to acquire, but also honed his aesthetic sensibilities.
		Johnston is associate director and curator of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art at the Walters Art Museum.
	www.neh.gov /news/humanities/2001-09/makingofamuseum.html (1984 words)

	The Walters Art Museum - Baltimore - calendarlive.com
		The Walters Art Museum - Baltimore - calendarlive.com
		In 1931, Henry Walters (1848-1931) bequeathed his gallery and his collection of 22,000 works of art to his native city "for the benefit of the public." The Walters bequest is still considered among the greatest acts of cultural philanthropy in our nation's history.
		Films are based on monthly art activities topics and chosen with children and their families in mind.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/video/56101,2,2927892.venue (411 words)

	Walters Art Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland's Mount Vernon neighborhood, is one of the finest small privately-formed art collections open to the public in the United States.
		The Museum's collection was amassed substantially by two men, William Thompson Walters (-1894), who began serious collecting when he moved to Paris at the outbreak of the American Civil War and Henry Walters (1848-1931), who refined the collection, and rehoused it in a palazzo.
		Walters Art Museum began having totally free admission year-round as a result of grants given by Baltimore City and Baltimore County.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walters_Art_Museum (260 words)

	Art Museum Network News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Baltimore Museum of Art explores French drawings through the eyes of the collector in works by such masters as Mary Cassatt, Honoré Daumier, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Edouard Manet and Jean-Francois Millet, who distinguished themselves at the Paris Salons with their highly finished drawings intended for the market.
		The Walters’ holdings, which were mostly assembled by William T. Walters (1819–94) with assistance from his agent George A. Lucas (1824–1909), reflect the preference for highly finished works prevalent among wealthy East Coast collectors during the second half of the 19th century.
		The Walters Art Museum is located in Baltimore’s historic Mount Vernon Cultural District at North Charles and Centre streets and is one of only a few museums worldwide to present a comprehensive history of art from the third millennium B.C. to the early 20th century.
	www.amnnews.com /press.jsp?id=2687 (1452 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ethiopian Art: The Walters Art Museum: Books: Gary Vikan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Walters Art Musuem boasts the largest Ethiopin art outside of Ethiopia alongside a permanent collection of Byzantium and Russian art.
		The Ethiopian collection in the City of Baltimore is only one part of a museum that builds it's strengths on the art of the eastern Orthodox world.
		There is also an overview of daily life and religious practices, art history and the role of the Cross, illuminated manuscripts and painted icons that rivalved some of the best in the Orthodox world.
	www.amazon.ca /Ethiopian-Art-Walters-Museum/dp/1903942020 (621 words)

	Baltimore Museum of Art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, was founded in 1914.
		The highlight of the museum is the Cone Collection, works by Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Gauguin, van Gogh, and Renoir, brought together by Baltimore sisters Claribel and Etta Cone.
		This article related to an art display, art museum or gallery in the United States is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baltimore_Museum_of_Art (322 words)

	BMA Exhibitions - Ethiopian Art from the Walters Art Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BMA Exhibitions - Ethiopian Art from the Walters Art Museum
		This exhibition features the art objects that were a central part of the celebration of the Christian religion in Ethiopia from the 4th through the 19th centuries.
		These exquisite pieces from the Walters Art Museum collection testify to the exuberant traditions in metalwork, book production, icon painting, and woodcarving that together constitute the rich visual heritage of one of the world’s oldest Christian cultures.
	www.artsbma.org /showexhl.asp?I=53 (109 words)

	Mint Museum of Art - November 2003
		When the Mint Museum of Art hosted the exhibition Ramesses the Great: The Pharaoh and His Time in 1988, so much display space was required that its European and American paintings were loaned to Florida and Tennessee museums to convert galleries to a temporary home for the ancient Egyptian king.
		The Walters Art Museum came to the same solution for its stellar collection of European paintings and sculptures while it hosts Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from The British Museum this fall.
		Henry Walters magnanimously gave the collection to the mayor and city council of Baltimore in 1931 "for the benefit of the public".
	www.carolinaarts.com /1103mint.html (1532 words)

	Medieval Bestiary : Walters Art Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"The Walters Art Museum is internationally renowned for its collection, which was amassed substantially by two men, William and Henry Walters.
		The collection presents an overview of world art from pre-dynastic Egypt to 20th-century Europe, and counts among its many treasures Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi; medieval ivories and Old Master paintings; Art Deco jewelry and 19th-century masterpieces.
		During the 19th and early 20th centuries, William Thompson Walters and his son, Henry, assembled a diverse range of artworks from around the worldfrom European master paintings and decorative arts to Greek and Roman antiquities and Far Eastern ceramics.
	www.bestiary.ca /institutes/institutedetail2654.htm (122 words)

	Maryland ArtSource - Institutions - Walters Art Museum
		Institution Highlights: The Walters Art Museum is internationally renowned for its collection, which was amassed substantially by two men, William and Henry Walters.
		Institution History: During the 19th and early 20th centuries, William Thompson Walters and his son, Henry, assembled a diverse range of artworks from around the world from European master paintings and decorative arts to Greek and Roman antiquities and Far Eastern ceramics.
		The Walters Art Gallery now the Walters Art Museum opened its doors for the first time as a public institution on November 3, 1934.
	www.marylandartsource.org /institutions/detail_000000015.html (427 words)

	The Walters Art Museum - Museum News
		The collector deposited the Palimpsest at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, for exhibition, conservation, imaging and scholarly study in 1999.
		The manuscript is conserved by Abigail Quandt of the Walters Art Museum.
		The project manager is Michael B. Toth of R.B. Toth Associates and the project director is William Noel of the Walters Art Museum.
	www.thewalters.org /news_art_museum/pressdetail.aspx?e_id=3 (562 words)

	SESMA: The Walters Art Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Walters is unique in having eight outstanding locations for entertaining.
		For smaller events, there are several locations: the handsome medieval-style Museum Cafe designed with vaulted ceilings and polished stone floors, and Ancient Worlds where you are greeted where you are greeted by two large fl Egyptian Sekhmets standing guard at the entrance to the over 5,000 years of civilization.
		Location: The Walters Art Museum is located on North Charles Street in historic Mt. Vernon, five to ten minutes from major hotels and Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
	www.sesma.org /event_sites/walters.html (173 words)

	The Walters Art Museum - Colleges & Universities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For information on bringing your students to the museum for a docent-led or self-guided tour of the permanent collections or special exhibitions, click here.
		The Walters offers a $35 student membership, which includes discounts at the Walters Café, the Museum Store, and more than 40 local restaurants and shops.
		The resources of the Walters Library are available to college and university faculty and students.
	walters.planitapps.com /education_art/education_colleges.aspx (173 words)

	Walters Art Museum Free Admission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stationed just inside the entrance, it's stocked with children's art books and other educational items to help children relate to what they see around the museum.
		Also on Saturdays from 1 to 4, families are invited to go the Family Arts Center for free, hands-on art-making activities.
		The Walters Art Museum was voted the 2004 Best Art Museum for Kids by Baltimore Magazine and is definitely worth the trip.
	www.bargainchaser.com /WaltersArtGallery.htm (114 words)

	aspen art museum
		Filmed on location at three museums in Baltimore - the Walters Art Museum, the Peabody Museum, and the Great Blacks in Wax Museum - this new work pays homage to the so-called "blaxploitation" films of the 1970s.
		Julien now works in a variety of media, including film, video, and photography, which are presented in a variety of ways from museums and galleries to television and movie houses.
		One of the main objectives of his work is to break down the barriers that exist between different artistic disciplines, such as film, dance, photography, music, theater, painting, and sculpture, which he unites in his own work to construct powerful sequences of images, often with disjunctive narratives.
	www.aspenartmuseum.org /exhibits/u_julien.htm (350 words)

	The Walters Art Museum - Tours Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tours are a perfect way to obtain more in-depth information about the exhibitions on view at the Walters.
		Museum-trained volunteers provide tours that are suitable to a variety of visitors, including adults, families, and the K-12 school visitors.
		The museum also provides Audio Tours free with museum admission.
	walters.planitapps.com /visit_plan_museum/planavisit_tours.aspx (98 words)

	Amazon.fr : Bedazzled: 5000 Years of Jewelry, the Walters Art Museum: Livres en anglais: Sabine Albersmeier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The latter piece is especially significant because it marks one of the first instances of Lalique’s use of cast glass.
		Sabine Albersmeier is Assistant Curator for Ancient Art at the Walters Art Museum, where she is responsible for the Greek and Roman collection.
		Albersmeier is currently working on two upcoming exhibitions for the Walters Art Museum: the touring exhibition Bedazzled: 4,500 Years of Jewelry opening in 2006, and Reviving Ancient Glass: Imitations, Innovations, Interpretations.
	www.amazon.fr /Bedazzled-Years-Jewelry-Walters-Museum/dp/1904832164 (308 words)

	Baltimore Hotels: Walters Art Museum (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We have tried to show you the top 10 hotels around Walters Art Museum.
		This will let you compare the best hotel rates for the Walters Art Museum area.
		The newly renovated Walters is a world-class museum whose collections span 55 centuries of art-from Egyptian artifacts to Medieval armor, and Renaissance paintings.
	www.roomrate.com.cob-web.org:8888 /baltimore/attractions/waltersArt.asp (158 words)

	wjz.com - Expansion Project At The Walters Art Museum
		WJZ Baltimore, Maryland News Weather: Expansion Project At The Walters Art Museum
		(AP) Baltimore, MD Baltimore's Walters Art Museum is laying the groundwork for an expansion with the purchase of a nearby building from the Maryland Historical Society.
		The Walters known for its collections of ancient and medieval art and illuminated manuscripts and decorative objects.
	wjz.com /topstories/local_story_326132126.html (137 words)

	Walters Art Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		DESCRIPTION: Docent led tour of extensive collection of Japanese art ranging from Samurai armor to 16th century screens, scrolls and porcelains, to 19th century prints.
		Programs for l999-2000: Spring Institute: Mythology of the Ancient World Teacher Workshops: Jewelry and Metalwork as Art, Using Asian Art to teach World History and Gold of the Nomads: Sythian Treasure from Ancient Ukraine.
		Resource packets on many of the museums collections or special exhibits (including slides, bibliography, glossary, timeline, map) may be borrowed for 3 weeks - or may be purchased; see Teacher Brochure
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /curriculum/socialstd/FT/Walters_Gallery.html (223 words)

	Walters Art Museum - renovations - Brief Article Art in America - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Art in America, Nov, 2001 by Stephanie Cash, David Ebony
		The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore recently reopened after a three-year, $24-million expansion devised by architects Michael McKinnell and Tim Scarlett in collaboration with designers Charles Mack and Quenroe Associates.
		Among the inaugural exhibitions are "Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection," through Jan. 13, 2002, and a site-specific installation by Dennis Adams, through Jan. 19.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_11_89/ai_80497101 (159 words)

	The Cuneiform Collection (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In these pages, The Walters Art Museum and the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), an international research project based at the University of California, Los Angeles, present a database of the 89 inscribed objects in the Walters' Ancient Near East collection.
		The full catalog of the collection, including transliterations and translations of the texts, and word and sign glossaries is currently under construction.
		Preview a visit to the Walters by taking a virtual tour of one of the Museum galleries.
	www.discoverbabylon.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wam/wam_cuneiform.asp (318 words)

	The Walters Art Museum (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		We are pleased to present you with our totally new website for the Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland.
		In the future, you will continue to see improvements, representing an ongoing commitment to ensuring that your Walters website experience is as rewarding as possible for you.
		The best way to experience the Walters Art Museum and all that we have to offer is to become a member.
	www.thewalters.org.cob-web.org:8888 (283 words)

	G2G: The Walters Art Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And they did it with a style worthy of the gorgeous objects inside this gem of a museum.
		At the core of the web site is a system of changing, database-driven pages that present various aspects of the Walters experience from special exhibitions, to works of art, to events such as family festivals and member programs.
		Dynamic collection pages enable users to plan a visit to the museum, allowing them to select works of art to be located in an online, printable map, while navigational icons introduce users to the new wayfinding system.
	www.g2g.com /html/clients_walters.htm (211 words)

	In Italy Online - The Walters Art Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I was taken aback by the clearness of its collections and the care that has been taken to create an environment that brings each piece alive.
		The gallery itself is a work of art, having been modeled after Italian Renaissance and baroque palace designs.
		he Walters Art Gallery has other wonderful exhibits such as a large collection of Roman sarcophagi and a collection of extraordinary illuminated Italian manuscripts and rare books.
	www.initaly.com /itathome/museums/walters/walter.htm (331 words)

	Museum of Biblical Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Acquired largely since 1993, the collection of Ethiopian icons, manuscripts, and bronze processional crosses of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is today one of the largest and finest collections outside of Ethiopia itself.
		Ethiopian Art from the Walters Art Museum features approximately 40 highlights (icons, manuscripts, bronze processional crosses, etc.) from the Walters’ permanent collection, including recent acquisitions.
		A comprehensive publication, Ethiopian Art (2001), featuring scholarly essays by Kelly M. Holbert, Assistant Curator for Medieval Art, Walters Art Museum, Getatchew Haile, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St. John’s University, and Jacques Mercier, CNRS, Ethnology and Comparative Sociology Laboratory, University of Paris-X, serves as a companion volume to the exhibition.
	www.mobia.org /onview/detail.php?id=35&range=upcoming (257 words)

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