Along with the current international retrospective on Florine Stettheimer in Germany, to which Columbia is the major lender, Art Properties has loaned a painting by Stettheimer to the exhibition “Classical Nudes and the Making of Queer History,” which runs from October 17, 2014, to January 4, 2015, at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian […]
Month: October 2014
Yardley Architectural Letterheads Collection online
Comprised of commercial stationery with illustrations of buildings in lower Manhattan, the Yardley Collection provides a unique view of New York City’s evolution during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Selected for their illustrations of buildings in lower Manhattan, these pieces of stationery include rare images of the city’s commercial architecture, much of which is no […]
Avery Library Acquires Arthur Rothstein Photographic Collection
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Arthur Rothstein Photograph Collection, 1848-2000, a collection of photographic prints and negatives, personal and professional papers, printed material, videos and ephemera, donated to the library by his wife, Grace Rothstein. Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985), one of the most […]
Univ. of Arkansas students at Avery
On September 18 and 19, Avery Drawings and Archives hosted a senior studio class from the University of Arkansas’ Fay Jones School of Architecture. They are preparing documentation and interpretation materials on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson house, which has been disassembled and is to be reconstructed on the grounds of the Crystal Bridges Museum of […]