NOW ON VIEW: 📷"New Perspectives of Historic Evergreen" showcases photography by three Baltimore School for the Arts seniors—Kyndall Roots, Rose Jean-Gilles Joseph, and Hassan Hunt—created with traditional 4×5 land cameras under the tutelage of Baltimore photographer Joe Giordano. The students spent the past several months exploring Evergreen, pulling inspiration from its collections, architecture, and history. The exhibition is on view through September 8 in the Student Engagement Space on Evergreen's second floor and can be seen as part of a guided tour of the museum. Plan your visit at https://museums.jhu.edu/evergreen-museum-library/visitor-info/ Image 1: Reflect by Kyndall Roots Image 2: Untitled by Rose Jean-Gilles Joseph Image 3: Untitled Portrait by Hassan Hunt (fb)

Reunited and it feels so good! Recently, a set of four chairs original to Evergreen returned to the museum! Commissioned for Evergreen's Dining Room by the first generation of Garretts to occupy the house (T. Harrison Garrett and his wife Alice Whitridge Garrett), the chairs were designed and manufactured by the prestigious New York City design firm Herter Brothers, the same firm that designed Evergreen's Gold Bathroom and Butler’s Pantry. Though the chairs were commissioned in the early 1880s, the style of the finished pieces is closer to the earlier high Victorian work of Herter Brothers from the 1860s and 1870s, as opposed to the Japonisme-influenced pieces the firm began producing in the 1880s. Still, the telltale lion carving on the crest rail marks them as Herter Brothers. The finished chairs can be seen in an archival photograph of the old Dining Room (now the Reading Room; swipe to see them in an archival image). It was through that photograph that an antiques dealer was able to connect the chairs to the house, which museum staff then verified through detailed descriptions of the chairs in early inventories and the Garretts’ communication with Herter Brothers. Plan a visit to Evergreen to see the chairs today: https://museums.jhu.edu/evergreen-museum-library/visitor-info Side chair, Herter Brothers, New York; c. 1884, oak (primary), Evergreen House Foundation. (fb)