This spring, the Baltimore Museum of Art is one of many Charm City-based arts institutions commemorating the Holocaust with special programming and exhibitions. Through May 26, the BMA presents “Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s.”
The exhibition showcases masterworks created in response to the rise of European fascism and the Holocaust by such artists as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and Joan Miro. It also includes works by Andre Masson and Jewish artist Mark Rothko.
Masson, his Jewish wife, Rose Makles, and their children were saved from Nazi persecution by Saidie Adler May, a Jewish Baltimorean and BMA benefactor who paid for their rescue and arranged for Masson to have the first exhibition of his work at the museum in 1941.
View some of the images from the exhibition below. All images courtesy the Baltimore Museum of Art.
André Masson. “Tauromachie.” 1937. The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland, BMA 1950.349. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 
André Masson. “There Is No Finished World.” 1942. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Bequest of Saidie A. May, BMA 1951.333. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 
Salvador Dalí. “Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War).” 1936. Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950 
Pablo Picasso. “Minotauromachy.” 1935. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Israel and Selma Rosen, Baltimore, BMA 1979.72. © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Still from Un Chien Andalou. © Les grands Films Classiques, Paris, 1929 
Joan Miró. “Summer.” 1938. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Bequest of Saidie A. May, BMA 1951.341. © Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 
René Magritte. The Fickleness of the Heart. 1950. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Gift of Tanaquil Le Clercq and George Balanchine, 1998.48.10 © C. Herscovici / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 
Maria Martins. “The Two Sacred Ones.” 1942. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Anonymous Gift, BMA 1945.34. © Estate of Maria Martins
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