Baltimore Museum of Art history

Ten years later, the museum was officially incorporated on November 16, 1914.

By 1915 the group had decided to permanently house the museum in the Wyman Park area, west of the then named Peabody Heights (later Charles Village) neighborhood.

In 1916, a building was purchased on the southwest corner of North Charles and West Biddle Streets as a possible location for the museum.

In 1923, the museum's inaugural exhibition opened there with attendance topping 6,775 during its first week.

The old Garrett mansion was acquired in 1925 by the group of art enthusiasts who bought the property for the purpose of keeping the museum intact.

The cornerstone was laid on October 20, 1927, facing the future Art Museum Drive running diagonally from North Charles Street.

The building phase was marked by controversy over its location, cost, and the quality of workmanship, but on April 19, 1929, it opened on schedule without much fanfare.

Local artists were feeling slighted, as well. “We, the living, resent being left to work in a vacuum of indifference and neglect while so much of the dead past is exhausted [by the BMA],” the president of the Artists’ Union of Baltimore complained to The Evening Sun in 1937.

Treide responded with an extensive community outreach survey and, in 1939, presented the city's first exhibition of African-American art.

The last recorded exhibit there was 1970.

The couple have collected work by black artists since 1999, focusing on abstraction.

The BMA’s attempt to present a more robust version of American art history extends beyond Generations with another exhibit, Every Day: Selections from the Collection, the BMA’s first reinstallation of its contemporary collection centered on black artistic imagination running through January 5, 2020.