Searching for Art Work in the Columbia University Art Collection For the first time, it is now possible to search for selected works from the Columbia University art collection. Art Properties, Avery Library, is pleased to announce the release of over 2,000 item records for cultural artifacts and works of art. Among the items in […]
Viewbooks: Window into America
Viewbooks: Window into America Curators: Teresa Harris and Lena Newman June 20, 2016-December 23, 2016 Monday – Friday: 9:00am – 5:00pm Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library Avery Library opens its summer exhibition with a delightful display of selections from its American Viewbooks collection. The exhibit celebrates the completion of our CLIR Hidden […]
City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics exhibition
City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics June 17-September 11, 2016 The Morgan Library, New York Avery Classics materials feature prominently in a new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum entitled City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics. As the curators of the show point out, “Rome exists not only as an intensely physical […]
Van Gogh puzzle done – 2nd puzzle ready to work
Stress was worked out by finishing our Van Gogh jigsaw puzzle in just a few days! Come relieve your last-minute stress by working on our Retro jigsaw puzzle now available at Avery! […]
Prince & Princess of Wales in Butler Library
Anyone who has ever visited Butler Library’s main reading room on the 300 level likely has looked up and seen the two life-size royal portraits that have hung high on the south wall for more than fifty years. Donated by alumnus Edmund Astley Prentis in 1949, these paintings were presented to the University as portraits […]
Stress relief @Avery
Come relieve your stress by helping us complete our jigsaw puzzle! […]
Cutaway: Drawing the Architectural Section
Cutaway: Drawing the Architectural Section Curator: Teresa Harris March 14, 2016 – June 17, 2016 Monday – Friday: 9:00am – 5:00pm By the early sixteenth century, architects had established conventions for depicting the most important aspects of buildings, namely their elevations, plans, and sections. These conventions have continued to the present day, although computer-aided drafting and […]
Conservation Partnership: Art Properties and IFA Conservation Center
In Fall 2013, Art Properties began a program with the NYU Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center to loan objects from Columbia’s art collection to the IFA CC so that students could benefit from object-centered learning. The IFA CC offers graduate degrees to students interested in the technical study and preservation of art and cultural […]
Avery Art Properties at the Norton Museum of Art
Art Properties has loaned six paintings by Florine Stettheimer and a drawing by Marguerite Zorach to the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, for their current exhibition O’Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York. This exhibition considers the art and careers of Marguerite Zorach, Florine Stettheimer, Helen Torr, and Georgia O’Keeffe […]
Spring 2016 Core Architecture Studio II visits
On January 27th, Avery Library welcomed students from the Spring 2016 Core Architecture Studio II in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. This semester, the required studio explores the “architectural form and identity of a 21st-century library” as well as trends in architectural representation. Avery Classics presented a selection of books that a […]