Amalie Rothschild
1916 Born in Baltimore, Maryland
2001 Died in Baltimore Maryland
EDUCATION
1996 Maryland Institute College of Art, Diploma, Honorary BFA
1934 Maryland Institute College of Art, Diploma
1934 New York School of Fine & Applied Art (Parsons)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 [Forthcoming / Winter] (Working title) Color-Line-Structure: The Modernist Vision of Amalie Rothschild,
Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD; Curated by Amy Eva Raehse
2012 Amalie Rothschild: A Retrospective View, Towson University, Towson, MD
Amalie Rothschild ’34: Vestments, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Amalie Rothschild: Sketchbooks, Goucher College, Towson, MD
2004 Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
1998 Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Amalie Rothschild: Vida y Creación 1954-1982, El Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela;
traveled to Museo de Arte Moderno, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Museo de Arte Moderno,
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1997 Amalie Rothschild: Life and Creation 1954-1982, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Galeria Altamira, Caracas, Venezuela
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1996 Art Research and Technology, Lancaster, PA
1995 Small Works, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1993 Geometric Progression 1948-1993, Gomez-Nye Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Art Research and Technology, Lancaster, PA
1991 Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
Maryland Institute Alumni Council, Baltimore, MD
Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD
C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1990 Painters and Sculptors Association, Tel Aviv, Israel
1989 Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC
1988 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1985 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Western Maryland College, Westminster, MD
1984 Amalie Rothschild Retrospective, Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
1982 Constructions, Meredith Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
Artscape, The Lyric, Baltimore, MD
1980 B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1977 B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1975 Vestments, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
1972 Jacob’s Ladder Gallery, Washington, DC
1971 Amalie Rothschild: One Man Show, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1968 Amalie Rothschild: Works, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
1964 Experiments in Sculpture, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
1959 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1957 Collages, Handesigns by Harriet, Baltimore, MD
1942 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
25-26 Modernisms, Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, Curated by Susan Isaacs
2014 What Not to Wear: Women Sculptors, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington
University, Washington, DC
2002 Maryland Artists from the Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2001 Mirror Images, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
2000 City Hall Courtyard Galleries, Baltimore, MD
Lotta Art, School 33, Philadelphia, PA
A Rare and Raw Evening, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1998 Goya Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
Hellidens Folkhogskola, Tidaholm, Sweden
Alumni Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Lotta Art, School 33, Philadelphia, PA
Art Swings!, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1997 Government House, State of Maryland
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Fay and Friends: Fells Point Gallery Revisited, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1996 Sculptors Guild, New York, NY
Alum Nine, Baltimore Life Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1995 Sculptors Guild, New York, NY
Sculpture Invitational, Inside and Out, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
Sculpture Showcase, New Hope, PA
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Singular View/Multiple Choices, The Holtzman Gallery, Towson University, MD
1994 Sculptors Guild, New York, NY
Millersville University, Millersville, PA
Twelve Plus One, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
Sculptures Inc., City Hall Courtyard Galleries, Baltimore, MD
1993 Art-A-Fare, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Art 93, 819 Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Art Research and Technology, Lancaster, PA
1992 Sculptors Inc. Show, International Sculpture Center Conference, Philadelphia, PA
The Invisible Thread, Norman and Sarah Brown Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1990 James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
1988 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Sculptors Inc., Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1987 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Interpretations ’87, Life of Maryland Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1986 Elements of Style, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Art Gallery of Fells Point, Baltimore, MD
Sculptors Inc., Maryland Galleries, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Towson University, Towson, MD
Art Aid, George Ciscle Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1985 Translucid Sculpture, Washington Square Partnership and Public Art Trust, Washington, DC
Three Artists: Three Visions, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1984 Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1983 Of, On or About Paper, USA Today, Arlington, VA
1982 Inaugural Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Paper as an Art Form, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC
Works on Paper, Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD
A Sign of the Times, Meredith Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
S/300 Sculpture Tricentennial, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Dimensions in Abstraction, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
Significant Sculpture, Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Artists, University of Maryland University College, College Park, MD
1980 Sculpture/80, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
13th Annual Drawing and Print Show, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
1976 Baltimore County Collections Exhibition, Goucher College, Towson, MD
Erotic Art, B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Twelve Renowned Maryland Artists, Mechanic Theater, Baltimore, MD
1975 Britain Salutes Baltimore, Stewarts, Baltimore, MD
B.R. Kornblatt Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
Natural Images, Fells Point Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1973 Annapolis Fine Arts Foundation, Annapolis, MD
1972 Chayim-Life, Jewish Community Center, Baltimore, MD
Seven Maryland Sculptors, Maryland Arts Council Traveling Show
The Center Club, Baltimore, MD
1968 Maryland Artists Invitational Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Maryland Artists Today, Maryland Arts Council; Traveling Show
Studio North, Baltimore, MD
1966 Rumsey Gallery, Rumsey Island, MD
1963 Pink Paintings, Gallery One, Baltimore, MD
Goucher College, Towson, MD
Circumstantial Evidence, Gallery One, Baltimore, MD
1962 15th Annual Area Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1961 Life in Baltimore, Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD
1960 Juster Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery One, Baltimore, MD
Four Moderns, IFA Gallery, Washington, DC
1959 14th Annual Area Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1958 Living Today, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1957 12th Annual Area Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Life in Baltimore, The Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD
1956 11th Annual Area Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1955 The Group, inaugural exhibition, The Playhouse, Baltimore, MD
EF Galleries Ltd, Baltimore, MD
1954 Life in Baltimore, The Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD
1953 8th Annual Area Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1952 Synagogue Art Today, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Jewish Religious Art, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Baltimore, MD
1950 Life in Baltimore, The Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD
1948 Life in Baltimore, The Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 Amalie Rothschild. Edited by Amalie R. Rothschild and Angelo Pontecorboli. Angelo Pontecorboli
Editore, Firenze, Italy. ISBN: 978-8897080305
2008 Glenn McNatt, “Unlocking Mysteries on Canvas,” The Baltimore Sun, April 20.
2000 Mike Giuliano, “A Family Affair,” The Baltimore City Paper, October 25.
1998 Belgica Rodriguez, Amalie Rothschild, Life and Creation (catalogue)
Belgica Rodriguez, Amalie Rothschild, Sculptor (catalogue)
1997 Melinda Greenberg, “Defining The Undefinable,” The Jewish Times, November 21.
Sono Motoyama, “No Bohemian, At 81 ‘Housewife’ Rothschild Still Creates,” The City Paper, June 4.
1993 “Profile of Amalie Rothschild,” Maryland Humanities Magazine, October-November.
1991 Bonnie North, “Five Decades of Art: Ms. Amalie Rothschild,” Art in Progress, cover article and
feature Interview, Baltimore-Washington Regional Arts Monthly, Volume I, Issue 1, December.
1990 Johanna Zacharias, Feature article “Rothschild Revisited,” Baltimore Jewish Times, April 20.
88-89 Thomas Fraiser, “What's Behind the Names?,” Baltimore Review, Volume 7.
1988 Jeanne Johnson Dudziak, “Heart Works,” Baltimore Magazine, December.
1986 Virginia Watson Jones, Contemporary American Women Sculptors, Oryx Press.
Henry Scarupa, “Making a Case for Music,” The Baltimore Sun, May 1.
1984 John Dorsey, “Amalie Rothschild: treasure of an artist,” The Baltimore Sun, February 3.
1982 Barbara Master, Feature article, Aura Arts Publication, March-April.
1980 Frank Getlein, “The Critics Place,” Maryland Center for Broadcasting WPBT-TV, April.
Barbara Master, cover feature article, Aura Arts Publication, March-April.
80-02 Who's Who in America.
1978 John V. Brain, “The World of Ideas” Interview, WBJC-FM, July.
Lincoln F. Johnson, Jr., Exhibition critique, Art Voices/South, May-June.
76-02 Who's Who in American Art.
1969 Liz Whitney Quisgard, “Baltimore's Top Twelve,” Baltimore Magazine, May.
1968 Lincoln F. Johnson, Jr., Amalie Rothschild: Drawings, Monograph, Goucher College.
1960 Theodore Low, “A Painter's Hand”, Man the Maker Series, Walter's Art Gallery and WMAR-TV, Baltimore.
1957 “Art and the Creative Mind”, Maryland Magazine, May-June.
1954 Peter Blake, An American Synagogue for Today & Tomorrow, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, NY.
SELECTED AWARDS
2000 Maryland Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, University of Maryland, Univ. College
1996 Maryland Institute College of Art, Honorary BFA
1993 The Maryland Medici Lifetime Achievement Award, Maryland State Arts Council
1985 Distinguished Alumni Award, Maryland Institute, College of Art
1957 Award for Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1954 Prize for Work in any Medium, The Baltimore Museum of Art
1950 Prize for Painting, The Baltimore Museum of Art
1934 Municipal Art Society Prize, Maryland Institute, College of Art
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
1980-1981 Design for Plexiglas window, Forest Park High School, Baltimore
1974 Design for wall hanging, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
1969 Design for architectural panels, Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School, Baltimore
1966 Design for wall hanging, Sun Life Insurance Company of America
1960 Mural, Town House Motor Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland
1951 Design for Ark Curtain, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
Art Collection of former USF & G, Oxford, MD
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Collection of Jules Horelick & Family
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Federal Reserve Bank Art Collection, Richmond, VA
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
Israel & Selma Rosen Art Collection
Jean & Sidney Silber Collection
Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Maryland Center for History & Culture (from collections of the Peale Museum)
Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD
Private, University and Corporate Collections
TEACHING
1960-1968 Lecturer in Fine Arts, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
1956-1959 Instructor in Painting, Metropolitan School of Art, Baltimore
1956-1970 Art Therapist at Springfield State Mental Hospital, MD