Painting, Modern -- 20th century

The Bennard Bloch Perlman Scrapbook Collection consists of 11 scrapbooks which contain letters, newspaper clippings, programs catalogues, ticket stubs, honor certificates and other assorted ephemera related to the career of Baltimore artist Bennard Bloch Perlman.

Contains predominantly project files of Laurence Ewald’s architectural work in Baltimore and Harford Counties and Baltimore, Maryland from the 1930’s to the 1970’s. Ewald’s work was mainly residential, and documentation for most projects consists of specifications, contracts, and correspondence.

Richard Oktavec was a painter of Baltimore, Maryland, window screens. In this oral history interview, he discusses his father, William A. Oktavec, Sr, Baltimore's best-known window screen painter. Oktavec also talks about the location of his store, other goods sold, prices, styles and subjects of screens, renewal of demand for screens in the 1960s, and the destruction of the shop during the Baltimore riots of 1968.