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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | February 4, 2011
Mary M. Stallings, a former hairstylist and artist, died Tuesday of heart failure at a daughter's Woodstock, Va., home. She was 98. Mary Margaret Francis was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and moved in 1919 with her family to Forest Park. She attended city public schools. Before World War II, Mrs. Stallings owned and operated a beauty shop in the old Emerson Hotel at Baltimore and Calvert streets. She later styled her customers' hair from her home. The former longtime Timonium resident, who had lived in Woodstock since 2003, was a self-taught artist.
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By John Goodspeed | April 13, 1992
ROBERT HENRI: HIS LIFE AND ART. By Bennard B. Perlman. Dover Publications. 176 pages. Illustrated. Paperback, $14.95. ROBERT Henri -- born in 1865 in Cincinnati, died in 1929 in New York -- is still considered one of the best U.S. painters, a great teacher and the man who initiated and organized the display of "modern" art that shoved aside "conservative" academic art in America.But as this fine biography by the Baltimore artist and scholar, Bennard Perlman, notes -- but doesn't emphasize -- Henri himself was considered conservative soon after his revolution began, and he became part of the artistic establishment for the last 15 years of his life.
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By The cellist Yo Yo Ma, writing in the New York Times | October 18, 1990
AS BUSY as he is, [violinist] Isaac Stern will make time to see people. Here I am, exactly half his age, with, supposedly, a lot more energy, and I try to do the same thing. But wherever I go to hear people, he has already heard them somewhere.Why does he make that effort? It's not ambition or mere physical energy. Mr. Stern is deeply moved by things, by people, by music, by events. He cares about violin playing and about the profession, and he gets excited when he sees talent. He reaches out, and he gets something in return: understanding.
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From The Aegis | February 25, 2013
The Harford County Cultural Arts Board has an exhibit by Harford County artist Lin McLain is on display at the Council Gallery, 212 S. Bond St., Bel Air. The exhibit features oil paintings with the focus on scenes from nature. The show, which runs through March, is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. McLain's work is inspired by nature and the desire to "capture the beauty and amazing wonders of it all," according to a cultural arts board press release.
TRAVEL
By Barbara and Ken Beem, For The Baltimore Sun | April 18, 2013
Visitors celebrating Virginia's 80th Historic Garden Week at the Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont might not immediately see a connection to Baltimore. The American painter, known for his portraiture, hailed from Detroit. His home, recognized as a National Historic Landmark, is just outside Fredericksburg, Va. It is Melchers' wife, Corinne, who provides the link. Born into a socially prominent Baltimore family in 1880, she married the middle-aged Melchers when she was in her 20s. So what was a nice Baltimore girl doing in Falmouth, Va.?
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February 10, 1991
Original works by Annapolis artist Nancy Hammond now linethe walls of the Starboard Room in Carrol's Creek restaurant in Annapolis.The permanent collection of silk-screened posters depicts graphicimpressions of Annapolis, Chesapeake Bay life, and the sailing scene.Surrounding by busy marinas and with a commanding view of the capital and harbor, Carrol's Creek makes an appropriate location for this exhibit.Hammond works have been shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Maryland Institute of Art and the Addison-Ripley Gallery in Washington, among others.