The Baltimore Museum of Art has announced a promised gift of ninety works of art by nearly seventy artists from Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff.

The collection includes important works by artists based in or with strong ties to Baltimore such as Larry Cook, Roland Freeman, Connie Imboden, Soledad Salamé, Elizabeth Talford Scott, and Stephen Towns and is particularly strong in photographs and works on paper, with items from Hans Hofmann, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Alfredo Jaar, Christopher James, Louise Lawler, Andres Serrano, Gary Simmons, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sze Tsung Leong, and Fred Tomaselli. Other paintings, sculptures, textiles, mixed-media works, and decorative arts include those by Anthony Caro, Leonardo Drew, Sam Gillam, Hun-Chung Lee, and Sarah Sze. The Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, which is supported by an earlier $5 million gift from the couple, is slated to open in December 2021.

In addition, this year the museum has acquired a hundred and seventy-five additional objects that encompass contemporary art across media.

"These acquisitions represent an incredible range of artistic achievement as well as the commitment of the BMA's curatorial team to bringing new and important voices into our collections," said Christopher Bedford, BMA's Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director. "Over the past several years, we have been focused on rectifying critical omissions in our postwar and contemporary holdings as part of an effort to tell a truer narration of art history. We are now looking further in history and across geography and culture to reveal artists, artworks, and innovations that may have gone under-recognized in centuries past to shift the conversation around collections diversification from the modern era to the history that underpins it. I look forward to working with our talented curators and team on this effort, and am grateful to donors like Nancy and Stan, who continue to support our vision and ongoing work."

(Image credit: Ficre Ghebreyesus. Red Room. c. 2002-2007. The Baltimore Museum of Art. © The Estate of Ficre Ghebreyesus. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., New York)