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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.

Painted Screens of Baltimore

a celebration of the Painted Screen Society collection

THE FORVER HOME OF BALTIMORE PAINTED WINDOW SCREENS

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 celebrate 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.

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The painted screen titled "Patterson Park Observatory with Self Portrait" by Ted Richardson, created in 1968, depicts the Patterson Park Observatory surrounded by lush green trees and blooming bushes under a cloudy sky. In the foreground, a self-portrait of Richardson shows him seated on a bench, playing a banjo next to a white fountain. The scene is set within a naturalistic park landscape, and the artist’s signature "Ted Richardson 1968" is visible in the bottom left corner.
Ted Richardson (1901-1987), 1968.

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