Dackerman, Susan. The Pious & the Profane in Renaissance Prints. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1998."Representing north and south, and pious and profane subjects, the work in this exhibition are but a sampling of Renaissance prints from The Baltimore Museum of Art's collection. Three major gifts form the core of the Museum's collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century prints. They were donated during the fruitful tenure of Adelyn D. Breeskin, the Museum's first print curator. Assembled in the second half of the nineteenth century, T. Harrison Garrett's collection of some twenty thousand prints was lent to the Museum in 1930 and was formally donated by his sons, Robert nd John W. Garrett, in 1946. Similarly, General Lawrason Rigg's collection of prints was lent in 1941 and given to the Museum in 1943. Blanche Adler, a trustee who founded the Museum's grphics collection, purchased works for the institution throughout its early years, and her 1941 bequest continues to fund print acquisitions. These and other gifts have made exhibition such as this one possible and have greatly enhanced the Museum's collection as a whole."--Page 10
