CUL/IS Showcase Donor-Funded Conservation of Important Portrait

Columbia University Libraries Showcase Donor-Funded Conservation of Important Portrait NEW YORK, November 1, 2015 – Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ (CUL/IS) Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Art Properties, and the Health Sciences Library, Archives & Special Collections, are pleased to showcase the end result of a major conservation project generously funded by donors Geraldine and […]

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Celebrating Avery’s 125th!

Avery Friends gathered Monday November 2nd, 2015 for the inaugural celebration of Avery’s 125th anniversary year. A tour-de-force one-day only exhibition presented 125 treasured works from Avery’s venerable and storied collections. If you missed this event, please join Avery Friends to ensure your invitation to upcoming Avery 125th events! Selected photos from the exhibition and […]

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Avery Art Properties at de Young Museum

Among the great American landscape paintings in the Columbia University art collection, stewarded by Art Properties, is The Enchanted Mesa by Arthur Wesley Dow. Painted in 1913, this painting depicts a Western mesa illuminated by the setting sun while the full moon rises above it. This painting was originally exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, […]

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Avery Art Properties at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

During the Spring 2015 semester, Art Properties worked with Elizabeth Hutchinson, Associate Professor of Art History, Barnard College/Columbia University, and her students on a set of ten drawings from the 1890s made by the Inupiat people. These drawings depict aspects of a ceremonial ritual still performed by some groups in Northwest Alaska, and are part […]

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Meadmore’s Curl being conserved

Conservation day has arrived! The Curl by Clement Meadmore, the large sculpture installed outside Uris Hall, is about to undergo a major conservation project. On Tuesday, September 8, Conservation Solutions and their riggers will dismantle the sculpture, and on Wednesday, September 9, the sculpture will be moved off-site so conservation work may begin. The sculpture […]

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Object-Centered Learning Symposium

OBJECT-CENTERED LEARNING: Experiencing the Authentic in a Digital Age Symposium sponsored by Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University Libraries Tuesday, February 17, 2015 9:00 am – 12:30 pm Butler Library, Room 523 Columbia University 535 W. 114th St., New York, NY Please join us for an engaging discussion of how close interactions […]

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Avery Art Properties at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

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 […]

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