Maryland Institute of Art

The Maryland Institute of Art, founded in 1826, advertises itself as "among the top visual arts colleges in the nation."[1] Among the institute's more notable alumni was Alger Hiss, who attended in 1921-22.[2]

During the 1920s, a visiting artist at the Maryland Institute of Art was John Sloan,[3] former editor[4] of the Communist[5] magazine The Masses, which would change its name to New Masses in 1926 (and be edited by Whittaker Chambers[6] starting in 1931). In 1959, the institute would be renamed Maryland Institute, College of Art.

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ Facts & History, Maryland Institute College of Art
2. ↑ "1921-1922: Attended... Maryland Institute of Art." Zeligs, Meyer Aaron. Papers, 1923-1978: Finding Aid. Harvard Law School Library, October 1, 1980
3. ↑ 1905-1960: A Fresh Start--Rise of Mount Royal Campus, Maryland Institute College of Art
4. ↑ John Loughery, John Sloan: Painter and Rebel (New York: H. Holt, 1997) ISBN 0805052216, p. 177
5. ↑ Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Dilling, The Red Network: A "Who's Who" and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots (Salem, N.H.: Ayer Publishing, 1977) ISBN 0405099460, p. 190
6. ↑ Meyer A. Zeligs, Friendship and Fratricide: An Analysis of Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss (New York: Viking Press, 1967) ASIN B000NZOTWM, p. 253