Leonard Bahr

Leonard Marion Bahr (May 12, 1905 – July 25, 1990) was an American portrait painter, muralist, illustrator and educator.

In 1930, Leonard started his professional painting career while still a student, beginning with two portraits of Baltimore's Mayor Preston.

[citation needed] He made portraits of Bishop Noble C. Powell,[5] various doctors and administrators at Johns Hopkins Hospital,[6] and other prominent individuals.

In 1934 he made the mural of Mary Caroll (Polly) Caton, daughter of lawyer, statesman and Contintental Congress representative Charles Carroll.

The mural entitled Arrival of Mary Carroll Caton at Castle Thunder was made for the Catonsville High School library.

Historically slaves rolled the tobacco hogsheads from farms to the Elkridge Landing seaport on the Patapsco River where they would be shipped.

[16] Leonard served on art boards and juries and exhibited his work widely, winning many prizes for his artistic eye.

[20] In December 1980 and January 1981, Maryland Institute College of Art held a retrospective of his fifty years as a painter.

Photograph of Behr's 1934 mural Arrival of Mary Carroll Caton at Castle Thunder , created under the Public Works of Art Project and destroyed in the 1960s