A sepia-toned image of a man standing on a piece of rock jutting out from a sheer cliff. Below him, a western valley yawns in the distance. Billowing cumulus clouds tower above and behind him.

Leave No Trace: John Work Garrett in the American Outdoors

September 25, 2024 – June 8, 2025

Evergreen Museum & Library, North Wing Gallery

Free for Friends of the JHU Museums & J-Card holders | $5 General Admission

John Work Garrett II (1872-1942) is best remembered today as a diplomat and book collector, who was a product of the privileged East Coast milieu in which he was raised. But in addition to his boyhood summers at Evergreen, his teenage travels in Europe and the Far East, and his university years at Princeton, Garrett’s character and imagination were formed by numerous excursions into the American West. Leave No Trace: John Work Garrett in the American Outdoors examines these formative experiences through archival photography, diary entries, artifacts, sculptures, and more, asking visitors to consider the idea of the American West from multiple perspectives and reflect on their own relationship to the great outdoors.


Tiffany lamp with an upturned mushroom base and blue spiderweb design lampshade

Art Glass at Evergreen

June 23, 2023 – August 25, 2024

Evergreen Museum & Library, North Wing Gallery
Free for Friends of the JHU Museums & J-Card holders
$5 General Public

Evergreen Museum & Library possesses one of the world’s largest private collections of 19th- and 20th-century art glass, including many important pieces by American and European makers such as Tiffany, Steuben, Durand, Loetz, and Émile Gallé. This installation gathers these highlights, showing off the breadth and depth of the collection and contextualizing its history at Evergreen.

The exhibition is open to the public during regular museum hours, Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. No advance registration required.