City of Baltimore - File #: 10-0575

• File #: 10-0575
• Version: 0
• Name: Walters Art Gallery - Disposition of Art Objects
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 7/12/2010
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 11/22/2010
• Enactment #: 10-381
• Title: Walters Art Gallery - Disposition of Art Objects FOR the purpose of authorizing the Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery to exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of certain objects that are not useful to the collection; and providing for a special effective date.
• Sponsors: City Council President (Administration)
• Indexes: Art, Disposition

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/22/2010	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
11/15/2010	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
11/8/2010	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably
11/8/2010	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
10/18/2010	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
7/15/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
7/12/2010	0	City Council	Introduced
7/12/2010	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: The Council President
At the request of: The Administration (The Walters Art Gallery)

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
title
Walters Art Gallery - Disposition of Art Objects

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery to exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of certain objects that are not useful to the collection; and providing for a special effective date.
body
BY authority of
Article 18 - Educational and Cultural Programs
Section 14-11
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

Recitals

The Walters Art Gallery possesses certain objects that are of a character and condition that render them unsuitable for public exhibition.

The deaccessioning of these objects has been recommended by the Board of Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery.

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery are hereby authorized to exchange, sell or otherwise dispose of the objects on the list attached to and made part of this Ordinance, entitled “List of Objects Slated for Deaccessioning.”

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the date it is enacted.

List of Objects Slated for Deaccessioning


1. Foliate Pier Capital
European, 13th Century, limestone
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters, probably before 1931
# 27.578


2. Pair of Columns
French, capitals are 13th Century, shafts are modern, bases are probably modern, limestone
Acquired by Henry Walt...