IN-PERSON PROGRAM

Michael and Ilene Salcman Collection

Michael and Ilene Salcman live in a 1937 house designed by Palmer and Lamdin in a mixture of Art Deco and Federalist styles. Palmer and Lamdin were Baltimore’s most important domestic architects of the 1920s and 1930s. The house underwent its first extensive restoration in 2000 by Jamie Snead and Charles Brickbauer of Ziger/Snead. They added a new kitchen, a second rear entrance and expanded the flow of gallery and library spaces for their late modern and contemporary art collection. The house recently underwent a second renovation in 2025, updating lighting, bathrooms and kitchen. Highlights include paintings, drawings and sculptures from 1960 to the present by the Abstract Expressionists (e.g. Hofmann, Kline, Mitchell, Motherwell), Color Field artists (Bowling, Gilliam, Louis, Noland, Olitski, Caro), Hard Edge Abstractionists (Albers, Herrera, McLaughlin, Leon Polk Smith), Minimalists (Judd, Mangold, Sandback, Stella), post-minimalists (Diebenkorn, Serra, Tuttle, Wilmarth) and contemporary masters (Ai Weiwei, Kusama, Murray, Polke, Richter and Whitten). There are photographs, sculptures and videos by major artists of the past four decades (e.g. Balka, Hatoum, Kentridge, Marclay, West, Whiteread, Wojnarowicz) as well as a younger generation (McArthur Binion, Michael Cloud, Theaster Gates, Zach Harris, Jay Heikes, Samuel Levi Jones, Rosy Keyser, Ken Okiishi, etc.). The Salcmans have retained much of their first works-on-paper collection, one that emphasizes classic American prints from the 1930s and 1940s as well as a selection of original artist's books in Ilene’s new study. During the renovations, the architects added classic modernist furniture by Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe to pieces by Donald Deskey and Adam Peck.

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