On display at The Jewish Museum in New York, an exhibit called "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore" recently received a review from Howard Kissel at the Huffington Post.
From the source:
"Nowadays one can buy art and immediately lend it to a museum, with tax benefits. The Cone girls made no such moves. They bought these works to hang on their walls because they loved looking at them in their separate Baltimore apartments. Only with the death of the younger, Etta, in 1949 did the invaluable collection go to the Baltimore Museum. (Her sister predeceased her by 20 years.)
What is remarkable about the works in "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters" is how fully formed the artists already are. Nothing about the astonishing Picasso watercolor "Two Roosters" suggests the work of an experimental 25-year-old -- it is entirely masterful."
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