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 […]
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 […]
Preservation Master Plan for Taliesin West
Talk by T. Gunny Harboe, FAIA (Harboe Architects) The Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Lecture Monday, November 16, 2015 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Location: MoMA, The Celeste Bartos Theater Co-sponsored by Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and The Museum of Modern Art Taliesin West was established in 1937 as Wright’s winter home, studio and campus for […]
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: 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 […]