Baltimore City Council
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
On agenda: 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
Attachments: 1. 10-0575 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Law - 10-0575.pdf, 3. 10-0575 - 3rd Reader.pdf

                     * 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

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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.

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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 Walters 1922

   # 27.260

 

 

3.                     Pair of Columns with Cosmatesque Mosaic Work

   Italian, stone, glass tesserae, probably modern (probably thought by Henry Walters to be 12th

     Century)

   Acquired by Henry Walters in 1925

   # 27.379/27.380

 

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