Look closely. 🧐 Oysters, crabs, crops, steel, and shipping—Maryland’s natural resources and industries—are forged into this screen from the now-closed Hutzler Brothers department store building, once a popular destination in downtown Baltimore. When stores around the world closed after the economic crash of 1929, Hutzler’s expanded, putting money into Baltimore’s economy. In 1932, they opened a new five-story building with black granite walls, steel window grates, and revolving doors in the most up-to-date architectural style, Art Moderne. The sleek, streamlined exterior hinted at the technologies available inside, from electric refrigerators to toaster ovens: machines for living a modern life. 📍 On view now in the American Wing. 🖼️ Unknown maker. "Screen or Grate." c. 1930s. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of Alfred Himmelrich, Baltimore, BMA 1999.132