How Pioneering Museum Director Adelyn Breeskin Helped ‘People To See’

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin studio portrait, 1961 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

An exhibition at The Baltimore Museum of Art pays tribute to the first woman to head a major metropolitan museum. She helped the museum acquire Matisse, Cassatt, Cézanne and Van Gogh masterpieces.

(Image credit: Photo by Leonard L. Grief, Jr.)

An exhibition at The Baltimore Museum of Art pays tribute to the first woman to head a major metropolitan museum. She helped the museum acquire Matisse, Cassatt, Cézanne and Van Gogh masterpieces.