EDWARD ROSENFELD / BY JON WEST-BEY SPRING 2017 Managing Editor Eric Key Editors Sandy Bernstein Beth Butler Barbara Reed Director, Institutional Marketing Cynthia Friedman Graphic Designer Jennifer Norris Project Manager Laurie Bushkoff Arts Program Staff Tawanna Manago Rene Sanjines Jon West-Bey UMUC Art Advisory Board Javier Miyares, UMUC President Anne V. Maher, Esq., Chair Eva J. Allen, PhD, Honorary Member Myrtis Bedolla, Vice Chair Joan Bevelaqua Schroeder Cherry, EdD I-Ling Chow, Honorary Member Nina C. Dwyer Karin Goldstein, Honorary Member Juanita Boyd Hardy, Honorary Member Sharon Smith Holston, Honorary Member Pamela G. Holt Eric Key Thomas Li, Honorary Member David Maril, Honorary Member Terrie S. Rouse Christopher Shields Barbara Stephanic, PhD, Honorary Member Dianne A. Whitfield-Locke, DDS Sharon Wolpoff Elizabeth Zoltan, PhD
The Arts Program recently received a donation of two artworks by Baltimore, Maryland, painter Edward Rosenfeld from Martha Reese and her son Timothy Reese of Reston, Virginia. According to Martha Reese, the two pieces were given to her after she purchased another piece of artwork at a craft show in the early 1990s.
Rosenfeld, a native of Baltimore, was born in 1906 and died in 1983. He was a graduate
of the Maryland Institute College of Art and is known mostly for painting harbors, figures, and flowers, as well as cityscapes and landscapes. He studied with Waldo Peirce and other wellknown artists of his time. Rosenfeld was known as the “Mayor of Tyson Street” for his work in
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helping revitalize his neighborhood as a hub for Baltimore artists.
Rosenfeld’s paintings were exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1960. His papers
are housed at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, and two of his works are in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. UMUC has eight other works by Rosenfeld, obtained between 1982 and 1992, in its collection.
ABOVE: Edward Rosenfeld, Untitled Still Life, 1967, oil on masonite, UMUC Permanent Collection,
Maryland Artist Collection, Gift of Martha and Timothy Reese
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