This Lunch with the Libraries & Museums talk features JHU Museums Curator of Collections Michelle Fitzgerald and Levy Family Curator of Sheet Music and Popular Culture Sam Bessen sharing some of their favorite objects on view at Evergreen Museum & Library in a new installation about Bakst’s artwork, incorporating rare objects from the Alice Warder Garrett papers and the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection.

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Russian artist and theatrical designer Léon Bakst (1866-1924) and Evergreen’s Alice Warder Garrett (1877-1952) had a long and fruitful professional association. Today, Evergreen Museum & Library's collection of Bakst artwork ranges from hand-painted set backdrops, design sketches, and costumes to the Bakst Theatre itself, which is the only extant theater designed by Bakst in the world.

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