Over a three-day period last week, professional art handlers got a head start on the next phase of Gilman Hall's extensive renovation by removing the majority of artwork and antiquities from the Homewood building. In the photo, Nicholas Barna and Jared Paolini from Bonsai Fine Arts handle the bust of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), a German poet, philosopher, historian and dramatist. The bust resided in the Hutzler Undergraduate Reading Room, home to many paintings and other pieces of valuable artwork that were relocated to a secure, climate-controlled, off-campus storage facility.

Bonsai also took out paintings, books, sculptures, vases and some antique furniture from Memorial Hall, the Tudor and Stuart Room and selected other locations in the building. Specific items moved included portraits of past JHU presidents, Daniel Coit Gilman's book collection and a bust of Herbert Baxter Adams, one of Johns Hopkins' first fellows and, later, a faculty member noted for bringing the European seminar method to U.S. higher education.

Bonsai will return later in the semester to transport the remaining items to their temporary home.
—Greg Rienzi

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