On Saturday, October 1, the University of Virginia Art Museum is hosting a symposium entitled Variety, Archeology, and Ornament: Renaissance Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice in which I will be speaking. This symposium is being held in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name that features several items from Avery’s collections. I will […]
New Caravaggio books at Avery Library
To celebrate the 400th anniversary in 2010 of the death of the great early Baroque Italian painter, several new publications were issued which Avery Library has recently acquired. A select sample is presented. The work of Michaelangelo Mersi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) is noted for its blend of realism and naturalism, strengthened with his use of […]
What happened to the Picasso books? Where did photography go?!
In order to protect library materials from a ceiling leak in the Fine Arts stacks, books in the call number ranges N673 M34 – NK have been temporarily re-located to aisles 3-13 on the South side of the 200-level (South Stack B, next to the Avery-LC books). The leak, which occurs during rainy days, is […]
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Announces Gift from Rose Associates
NEW YORK, September 13, 2011 – Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library received a gift of archival materials from Rose Associates – a prominent New York real estate development firm. The archival gift is accompanied by funds from the Susan & Elihu Rose Foundation to support processing this fascinating collection of construction photographs, brochures, newspaper clippings, […]
Avery Library Tours
Want to know about our collections? Where things are located? What’s a database? Take an Avery Library tour!! Thursday Sept. 15, 2011 12:00-1:00 Friday Sept. 16, 2011 12:00-1:00 Monday Sept. 19, 2011 12:00-1:00 Tuesday Sept. 20, 2011 12:00-1:00 Friday Sept. 23, 2011 12:00-1:00 Monday Sept. 26, 2011 12:00-1:00 Sign up for tours at the Service […]
Avery Library Remembers 9/11
Avery Library has a large collection of historical resource guides with links to older material on Rebuilding Downtown NYC. […]
Avery Classics resumes regular semester hours, with evening Thursday hours
On Tuesday, September 6–the first day of classes–the Avery Classics reading room will resume its regular semester hours. These are Monday through Friday, 1:00pm to 4:30pm; the reading room will also be open late on Thursday nights from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. You can confirm our opening hours on any day using our online calendar. To […]
Avery Library Hours- 1st week
1st week of school hours: Tues. Sept. 6: 9-5 Wed. Sept. 7; 9-9 Thurs. Sept. 8:9-9 Fri. Sept.9: 9-5 Sat. Sept. 10:11-7 Sun. Sept. 11: 12-8 Semester hours begin on Sept. 12. […]
Avery Library Welcomes Students!!
Welcome to Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library! The Avery Library homepage has a lot of useful information including hours, services, subject and research guides, and information on our departments including Drawings & Archives, Avery Classics Collection (Rare Books) and the Avery Index . We are also on Facebook and Twitter so "like" us and […]
Thomas W. Lamb in the News
Yesterday’s New York Times brings welcome news regarding the future of the Victoria Theater on 125th Street in Harlem designed by Thomas Lamb, one of the major theater architects of the first half of the 20th century, whose archive is one of the most heavily used collections in the Drawings and Archives. The renovation of […]