Columbia University Libraries/Information Services‘ Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) are pleased to announce Columbia’s participation as a major lender to the exhibition Florine Stettheimer at the Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany, from September 27, 2014 through January 4, 2015. The exhibit will include 9 large-scale paintings from Columbia’s collections including […]
Category: Art Properties
Summer Installation for Art Properties
Come see the latest installation of art works from China and Japan, including these netsuke, from the collections of Art Properties, Avery Library. The two display cases are located in the Wallach Study Center and can be viewed during normal library hours. –photo and text by Roberto C. Ferrari, Curator of Art Properties […]
Avery New Acquisitions Event May 19
Please join us to view highlights of Avery 2013-2014 acquisitions! Monday May 19, 2014 Display: 3:00 – 8:00 pm Reception: 5:30 – 8:00 pm Sponsored by Avery Friends & the Friends of the Columbia University Libraries To RSVP, please call 212.854.6199 or email: Avery-Friends@libraries.cul.columbia.edu Image Credit: François Lecoy. Méthode simple et facile pour lever les plans, suivie d’un traité dunivellement et d’un abrégé des règles du lavis … (Paris: Duponcet, […]
New Avery blog from Art Properties: Public Outdoor Sculpture at Columbia
Art Properties has launched a blog dedicated to the public outdoor sculpture at Columbia University, https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/outdoorsculpture/. Maintained by Roberto C. Ferrari, Curator of Art Properties, the blog will provide historical and current information about these works of art found at the schools and campuses of Columbia. An interactive map to locate the public outdoor sculptures […]
Avery Art Properties in Anna Hyatt Huntington exhibition
Art Properties has loaned an important sculpture to the exhibition "Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902-1936," which runs from January 22 to March 15 at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University. Huntington (1876-1973) was one of New York City's most prominent sculptors. The subjects of her […]
Roberto C. Ferrari speaks at Oxford conference
Roberto C. Ferrari, Curator of Art Properties, recently represented Columbia University Libraries at Oxford University, where he was a speaker at the conference Pre-Raphaelitism: Past, Present and Future, held at the Ashmolean Museum and St. John’s College on September 13 and 14, 2013. The conference was a response to the exhibition Pre-Raphaelitism: Victorian Avant-Garde, which […]
Avery Art Properties in “Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth” exhibition
The Art Properties Department has loaned three significant works from the Sackler Collection to the exhibition "Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections," which opened on August 31 at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, in Salem, Oregon. The exhibition brings together 64 objects related to the […]
Roberto C. Ferrari appointed Curator of Art Properties
Roberto C. Ferrari, Ph.D., has joined Avery Library as its new Curator of Art Properties. Roberto brings experience and knowledge as an art historian and librarian that will help reshape the department of Art Properties for the future. His most recent librarian position was in the Image Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where […]
Reception & Display of Recent Acquisitions
Please join us to view highlights of Avery's acquisitions this year including a selection of works by Hugh Ferriss, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Russell Pope and others. Monday, May 20, 2013 Display: 3:00-8:00 PM Reception: 5:30-8:00 PM Sponsored by Avery Friends & the Friends of the Columbia University Libraries To RSVP, please call 212.854.6199 or […]
Art Properties on Bwog
Bwog, the 24/7 blog incarnation of The Blue and White, Columbia University’s monthly undergraduate magazine, recently published an article about Art Properties, a department of Avery Library. […]