"Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon" runs from Oct. 4 through Jan. 17 at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive. Admission is free. Call 443-573-1700 or go to artbma.org. Pictured is Edouard Manet's "The Raven" (1875). (Courtesy BMA / August 11, 2009) |
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All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream
-- Edgar Allan Poe
One of the most brilliantly visual of writers, Poe could conjure up any manner of real and unreal images, enabling the reader to see deep within the dreams of his chilling prose. The writer, one of Baltimore's most illustrious sons, did not just captivate readers. He also inspired many an artist, including the likes of Edouard Manet and Paul Gauguin, and the legacy of that side of Poe's power will be explored in an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Prints, drawings and illustrated books, representing the work of notable 19th- and 20th-century artists drawn to Poe's prose, will be on display. Count on seeing works based on such chilling classics as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum" and, of course, "The Raven." The material, most of it from the BMA's own collection, will focus on three primary themes in Poe's writings: love/loss, fear/terror, madness/obsession. The display also makes a welcome addition to the observance of the Poe anniversaries this year -- the bicentennial of his birth, Jan. 19, 1809; and the 160th anniversary of his death in Baltimore, Oct. 7, 1849.
If you go: "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon" runs from Oct. 4 through Jan. 17 at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive. Admission is free. Call 443-573-1700 or go to artbma.org.
Is but a dream within a dream
-- Edgar Allan Poe
One of the most brilliantly visual of writers, Poe could conjure up any manner of real and unreal images, enabling the reader to see deep within the dreams of his chilling prose. The writer, one of Baltimore's most illustrious sons, did not just captivate readers. He also inspired many an artist, including the likes of Edouard Manet and Paul Gauguin, and the legacy of that side of Poe's power will be explored in an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Prints, drawings and illustrated books, representing the work of notable 19th- and 20th-century artists drawn to Poe's prose, will be on display. Count on seeing works based on such chilling classics as "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum" and, of course, "The Raven." The material, most of it from the BMA's own collection, will focus on three primary themes in Poe's writings: love/loss, fear/terror, madness/obsession. The display also makes a welcome addition to the observance of the Poe anniversaries this year -- the bicentennial of his birth, Jan. 19, 1809; and the 160th anniversary of his death in Baltimore, Oct. 7, 1849.
If you go: "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon" runs from Oct. 4 through Jan. 17 at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive. Admission is free. Call 443-573-1700 or go to artbma.org.
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