Tommy Whittington, who lives in Westlake Village, Calif., returned to his old East Baltimore neighborhood and haunts last week. The former screen painter and retired hotel executive was in town to ...

Baltimore is known for its row houses — modest brick buildings lining sidewalks so narrow, you can see right through the front windows into people’s homes. To add privacy, window screens were ...

The tried-and-true pitch for painted screens applies as well to Jenny Campbell’s creations. That’s a good thing, because she has turned the Baltimore tradition into wearable art. For a gala a few ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Delores A. “Dee” Herget, a prolific practitioner of the Baltimore folk art tradition of painting colorful window screens, died ...

An east Baltimore tradition that dates back a century is getting a fresh coat of paint.This summer, painted screens are again going up across Highlandtown, but these screens are getting a bit of an ...

A painted four-panel folding screen that stands 6 feet tall and 10 feet wide is a touchstone for “Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500-1800,” a gorgeous new installation ...

Baltimore is known for its row houses — modest brick buildings lining sidewalks so narrow, you can see right through the front windows into people’s homes. To add privacy, window screens were ...