15 Facts About Claribel Cone

Against family wishes, Claribel Cone studied at the Women's Medical College in Baltimore.

Claribel Cone's graduated in 1890 and completed an internship at Blockley Hospital for the Insane in Philadelphia.

Claribel Cone's then worked in the pathology laboratory of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and did postgraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania with the idea of becoming a medical doctor, but ultimately never practiced clinical medicine.

Claribel Cone focused instead on teaching and research as a professor of pathology for 25 years at the Women's Medical College.

Claribel Cone's bought at very low prices from the Steins, who were perpetually in need of money and were known to purchase discarded sketches from Picasso at his art studio for two or three dollars apiece to take home.

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The Claribel Cone sisters had a special interest in Matisse's Nice period.

Claribel Cone's admired Gertrude's Bohemian lifestyle, and biographer Brenda Richardson concludes that there is a strong possibility Etta and Gertrude were at one point lovers.

The Claribel Cone sisters built up a large collection of paintings and sculptures by Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh.

Claribel Cone had willed her artistic paintings to Etta, spelling out in her will that these paintings should be transferred to the Baltimore Museum of Art if there was an interest in modern art.

The Claribel Cone Collection is used by art students and scholars from around the world as a research source.

Claribel Cone Collection includes Matisse's Blue Nude and Reclining Nude, Cezanne's Mont Sainte Victoire as seen from Bibemus Quarry, Gauguin's Woman of Mango, and Picasso's Mother with Child .

The Claribel Cone sisters collected all through Matisse's painting career, accumulating 42 of his oil paintings, 16 sculptures, 35 drawings, 150 prints, and a half dozen books of illustration – as well as over 200 hand drawings, art prints, and illustrated copper plates from Matisse's first published book of illustration, Poesies de Stephane Mallarme.

Claribel Cone sisters acquired many of Picasso's works, and among these were 114 prints and drawings from his early years in Barcelona and from his Rose period in Paris.

Moses Claribel Cone had his vacation home Flat Top Manor in nearby Blowing Rock, North Carolina, and the Claribel Cone sisters often visited their brother there.

The Claribel Cone sisters were buried at Baltimore's Druid Ridge Cemetery in an area called Hickory Knoll.