Celebrate Avery’s 125th anniversary at this special one-day only exhibit! Here’s one of our treasures which will be in the show: Thom Mayne/Morphosis Color Proof 1/Gold Club at Chiba Prefecture, Japan. 1990. 1990.004.00071 In 1990, the Chiba Prefecture west of Tokyo had the highest concentration of golf courses in Japan. This project represented an […]
Celebrate Avery’s 125th Anniversary
Celebrate Avery’s 125th anniversary at this special one-day only exhibit! Here’s one of our treasures which will be in the show: Michael Graves Addition to the Whitney Museum, New York, New York: scheme 3, Madison Avenue elevation, 1988. 1990.004.00266 One of the most controversial projects of the 1980s, this drawing represents Graves’ third and final […]
Celebrate Avery’s 125th Anniversary
Celebrate Avery’s 125th anniversary at this special one-day only exhibit! Here’s one of our treasures which will be in the show: Etienne Du Pérac I vestigi dell’ antichità di Roma, raccolti et ritratti in perspettiva con ogni diligentia da Stefano Dv Perac. Rome, 1575 AA320 D92 F Etienne Du Pérac was a skilled engraver, painter and […]
Celebrate Avery’s 125th Anniversary
Celebrate Avery’s 125th anniversary at this special one-day only exhibit! Here’s one of our treasures which will be in the show: Vitruvius Pollio Architectvre, ou Art de bien bastir, de Marc Vitruue Pollion. Paris, 1547 AA2515 V85 1547 The first French language edition of Vitruvius, the only comprehensive architectural treatise to survive from antiquity, did not appear […]
Celebrating Our 125th Anniversary
Please join us for: Highlights from the Permanent Collections: An Exhibit Celebrating Avery’s 125th Anniversary Year November 2nd 2015 Exhibit 3:00 – 9:00 pm Reception 5:30 – 8:30 pm Join us for this one night only opportunity to view 125 extraordinary works curated from Avery’s remarkable collections. Spanning seven centuries from Alberti, Serlio & Piranesi […]
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, […]
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 […]
Avery Drawing & Archives in Affordable Housing exhibit at MCNY
Affordable New York: A Housing Legacy Museum of the City of New York September 18, 2015-February 1, 2016 “Fifteen objects were lent from Drawings and Archives including drawings for Roosevelt Island development by Philip Johnson and John Burgee (preliminary scheme) and John Johansen (final design), sketches and photographs of Carver House by Simon […]
Avery Classics in Early Soviet Photography exhibition
The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film Jewish Museum, New York September 25, 2015 – February 7, 2016 From early vanguard constructivist works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky, to the modernist images of Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers played a pivotal role in the history of photography. Covering the […]
Curl Conservation: Day 3
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