A wooden framed window screen, painted with a pastoral scene which features a red roof bungalow set back in the woods.A winding path in front of the cottage bungalow leads to a pond in the foreground where three swans swim. The blue sky and puffy clouds hug the top of the tree-line and rise up to upper the edge of the frame.

Painting on a window screen of the top floor of a Baltimore row house. The two windows pictured contain painted screens.

Painted Screens of Baltimore

a celebration of the Painted Screen Society collection

A tremendous opportunity was presented to the Maryland Center for History and Culture to partner with the Painted Screen Society and assume stewardship of their collection. Inspired, the team at MCHC sought out creative ways to celebrate and display this uniquely Baltimore art-form. Just like the tradition of screen painting, this new home will foster appreciation for this folk art form and celebrates the talent and innovation of those who developed it.

A sampling of the painted screens collection is exhibited now on the first and second floors of the lobby atrium.

Main:

Red Bungalow

ca. 1913

Baltimore, Maryland

William Oktavec, 1885-1956

Maryland Center for History and Culture, Museum Collection, 1972.79.1

Inset:

Painted Screens

2013

Anna Collins Pasqualucci

Baltimore, Maryland

Painted Screen Society Collection, PSS.ACP.01b

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