Art and Artists

Last year the Baltimore Museum of Art auctioned off its Andy Warhol Oxidation Painting (1978) and its Franz Kline Green Cross (1956) to raise funds to purchase artworks that "fulfill our civic duty [to] amass the most significant and the most relevant collections we can for our public ," according to BMA director Christoper Bedford. Among the works purchased: Mary Lovelace O'Neal's Running Freed More Slaves Than Lincoln Ever Did (1995).