For close to 20 minutes you couldn’t distract Isabella and Juliana Baikauskas as they sat silently, laser-focused on perfecting their painted screens at the B&O Railroad Museum. With each brush stroke ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — It’s not the TV shows “Homicide” and “The Wire” that come to mind when I think of Baltimore, though both offered an intense look at an American city’s poverty, drugs and gangs.

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 ...

REHOBOTH BEACH — Painted screens are an authentic urban folk art created in Baltimore row house neighborhoods in 1913. Painted door screens provided an unobstructed view of the street to the row house ...

An east Baltimore tradition that dates back a century is getting a fresh coat of paint. WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — 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 ...

For some 200 years, Korean kings broadcast their heavenly mandate by sitting before a painted screen showing five mountains flanked by a red sun and a white moon. But King Jeongjo, who reigned from ...

"Painted screens have long been synonymous in the popular imagination with the Baltimore rowhouse. Picturesque, practical, and quirky, window and door screens adorned with scenic views simultaneously ...

REHOBOTH BEACH — Painted screens are an authentic urban folk art created in Baltimore row house neighborhoods in 1913. You must be logged in to rate. Click any rating to login.