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Susan Adler Davis reads from her new book "Saidie May: Pioneer of Early 20th Century Collecting"

Saidie May chronicles the life and travels of Baltimore born Saidie Adler May and her sister, Blanche Adler, both generous benefactors of the Baltimore Museum of Art and other museums in the United States.  An American expatriate, Saidie May lived in Paris during the late 1920s through the beginning of World War II and helped artist Marc Chagall escape the Nazi occupation.  Acquiring and sending art to US museums during her travels, she was the first to bring Pablo Picasso to America.

Ms. May created one of the first children’s museums in the United States and built an art study center for the public located in the Baltimore Museum of Art where the public could view art and make their own creations based on what they learned.

 

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Baltimorean Susan Helen Adler, an art historian and teacher is the great-niece of Saidie May. 

 

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Thursday, July 21

6:30pm Reading and Book Signing

The Ivy Bookshop

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