Permanent Collection
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Highlights from the American Visionary Art’s permanent collection are below.
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- Giant WhirliGig by Vollis Simpson
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AVAM's Giant WhirliGig by Vollis Simpson is Baltimore's most beloved outdoor sculptural landmark.
- Recovery by Anonymous
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This lone figure was carved from a single apple tree trunk. It was created as a self-portrait by a British mental patient who had a distinctive concave chest from years of tuberculosis.
- LeRoy E. Hoffberger Shining Youth/Shining Walls
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AVAM's exterior, dazzling mosaic walls were built by youth-at-risk as part of the largest Mosaic apprenticeship program in the nation.
- Painted Screens & Rowhome Theater
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Painted Screens have been a fixture on Baltimore row houses since 1913.
- World's First Family of Robots
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World-famous hitchhiker and visionary artist DeVon Smith lovingly created his own 100% recycled family of robots.
- Horse Dress by Anonymous
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The woman who hand-crocheted this horse dress was a longtime patient of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, a mental health institution in Baltimore County.