Avery on Exhibit
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Past Exhibitions
Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944), Portrait of Myself, 1923, oil on canvas, Gift of the Estate of Ettie Stettheimer, 1967 (1967.17.05)
Other Points of View
February 8 - May 17, 2020
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
26 Wooster Street
New York, NY
Seymour Lipton (1903-1986), Warrior I, 1948, sheet-lead, steel, and plaster, H. 27 1/4 x W. 16 x D. 13 in. (69.3 x 40.1 x 30.3 cm), Art Properties, Avery Library, Columbia University, Gift of the Lipton Estate (2016.20).
CONNECTIONS IN COLLECTIONS: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART AND ARCHITECTURE
February 10 - April 15, 2020
Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture
Co-curated by Roberto C. Ferrari (Curator of Art Properties) and Chris Sala (Architecture Librarian).
Percival Goodman, Project for the Palace of the Soviets in Moscow. Axonometric, photo stat on paper, 29 ¾ H x 17 ½ W (inches); 75 H x 44.5 W (centimeters). Percival Goodman architectural records & papers, 1929-1989, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Building a new New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
13 November 2019 - 05 April 2020
CCA | Canadian Centre for Architecture
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Style of Clodion, Satyr and Two Nymphs (detail), signed & dated 1778, terracotta (?), H. 25 7/8 x W. 17 1/8 x D. 13 1/4 in. (65.1 x 43.4 x 33.6 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, Gift of Mrs. Lewis Bloomingdale (1976.12.5).
Clodion (1738-1814) & "Clodion Mania" in Nineteenth-Century France
September 24 - December 13, 2019
Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture
Curated by the M.A. in Art History program with Art Properties.
Charles Willson Peale, Portrait Miniature of Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), ca. 1780, watercolor on ivory, 2 x 1 3/8 in. (5 x 3.5 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, Presented to Columbiana (University Archives) by Edmund Astley Prentis, 1964 (C00.1673).
The Schuyler Sisters & Their Circle
July 20 - October 27, 2019
Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY
Charles Mwenze Mungolo, Ancient African Chiefs (detail), 1967, oil on canvas, Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, Gift of A. Oladiende Fernandez to the Graduate School of Business (C00.1814).
Vessel in the form of a Dog, Colima culture, Mexico, ca. 200, polychrome earthenware, H. 7 1/4 x W. 5 3/4 x L. 12 1/2 in. (18.4 x 14.6 x 31.8 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, Samuel Kirkland Lothrop Collection, Gift of René A. Wormser (1968.8.22).
Animalia
June 12 - September 13, 2019
Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture
Curator:
Roberto C. Ferrari, Curator of Art Properties
John Hoppner, Portrait of Isabella Ricketts, later Mrs. Stanlake Henry Batson (1782-1845), ca. 1800-01, oil on canvas, 39 1/2 x 30 in. (100.2 x 76.2 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, Gift of Loyd H. Langston (C00.762)
Hoppner, Beechey, Fisher, Lavery:
Researching Columbia's Portraits
February 11 - May 10, 2019
Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture
Curators:
Roberto C. Ferrari, Curator of Art Properties, with Mateusz Mayer, Ph.D student, Dept. of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University
Detail: New York City as it will be in 1999: a pictorial forecast of the city, 1900. (AA735 N4 N422)
Transportation Alternatives
November 9, 2018 – February 22, 2019
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Avery Classics Reading Room: Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Curator: Lena Newman, Special Collections Librarian
In April 2019, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will shut down the Canarsie Tunnel, a vital underground link that carries L-train riders between Manhattan and Brooklyn, for much-needed repairs. As New Yorkers know all too well, the problems plaguing the city's transportation infrastructure extend far beyond a single subway line, and the challenge of moving people in to, out of, and around the city isn't a new one. The objects in this exhibit seek to illustrate various transportation solutions - from the never realized to the barely still working - throughout New York's history.
Model of Seagram Building in transit, circa 1957. Theodore Conrad papers, 1937-1991, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Model Projections
October 4 - December 15, 2018
Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
Columbia University
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 6pm
Co-curators:
Irene Sunwoo, GSAPP Director of Exhibitions and Curator, Arhur Ross Architecture Gallery
Jennifer Gray, Curator of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Model Projections investigates the complex pathways between architecture and its representations through an examination of the practice of model making. Drawing primarily upon the special collections of the Drawings and Archives department at the Avery Library, the exhibition focuses on an ecosystem of architectural model making during the mid-twentieth Century. It features original photographs; correspondence and ephemera from the archives of Harvey Wiley Corbett; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; photographer Louis Checkman; and the pioneering model maker Theodore Conrad.
Attributed to George Henry Harlow, Portrait of James Justinian Morier (ca.1780-1849), 1818, oil on canvas, 28 x 24 in., Art Properties, Avery Library, Columbia University, Gift of Dr. Calvin H. Plimpton and his mother Anne Hastings Plimpton, to the George A. Plimpton Collection (2000.6.32).
Looking East: James Justinian Morier and Nineteenth-Century Persia
Curated by the M.A. in Art History program with Art Properties and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library
September 24 - December 14, 2018
Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture
This exhibition focuses on a portrait of the diplomat and writer J. J. Morier (ca.1780-1849) and includes editions of his novel The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1824) and his illustrated travelogues to Persia. Additional related works from Avery Classics and Art Properties complement the exhibition.
Monoprint by Christopher Stern from Something lived, something dreamed: urban design and the American West by William McDonough, 2004. (AA9105 M138)
New Acquisitions 2017-18
Curator: Teresa Harris
June 4 - September 28, 2018
Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
A selection of new acquisitions from the past academic year is currently on display in Avery Classics. Materials range from Soviet photo journals to a hand-drawn copy of Vignola's seminal treatise on the architectural orders to documents of The Archietcts' Resistance (TAR), an activist movement formed by students from Columbia, MIT, and Yale in 1968.
Yellow Tara (Vajra Tara), Tibet, late 17th to 18th century, gilded copper-zinc alloy (brass) with traces of polychromy, semiprecious stones, and silk, H. 7 3/16 x W. 6 3/8 x D. 3 1/2 in., Art Properties, Avery Library, Columbia University, Gift of J.G. Phelps Stokes (C00.1603.25).
Wisdom of the East: Buddhist Art from the J. G. Phelps Stokes Collection
Curator: Roberto C. Ferrari
June 18 - September 14, 2018
Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture
In 1959, James Graham Phelps Stokes (1872-1960), an alum of Columbia's College of Physicians & Surgeons and a New York City politician, donated to Columbia over 50 Asian sculptures and decorative objects. This exhibition celebrates his gift by showcasing a selection of Buddhist works of art from the collection.
The World on View
April 7-July 29, 2018
University of Pennsylvania Arthur Ross Gallery
Avery Classics has loaned material to this exhibition.
Credit: The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York)
Frank Lloyd Wright between America and Italy
March 28-July 1, 2018
Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
Curator: Jennifer Gray
Fragment from a stupa depicting the adoration of the Buddha, from Gandhara [Pakistan], 4th century, schist, 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (18.5 x 18.5 x 8.9 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, Gift of Gary K. Johnson (MA 1976, MBA 1980) and Allyson Powers Johnson (MBA 1980) (2008.2.7)
Images of Awakening: Buddhist Sculpture from Afghanistan and Pakistan
March 24 - June 17, 2018
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens
New York Crystal Palace (recto). Attributed to Victor Prevost (American, born France, 1820‐1881), Salt print photograph, 1853‐54. Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Paper Promises: Early American Photography
February 27-May 27, 2018
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Panoramas
Curator: Teresa Harris
December 18, 2017 – May 25, 2018
Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Panorama is derived from the Greek words meaning ‘all’ and ‘view.’ For centuries, popular entertainment has utilized panoramic composition to transport viewers to far-away places like Athens or Versailles or to the midst of important historical events such as the Battle of Gettysburg. Panoramas have taken many forms from large cylindrical paintings to dioramas to photographic and filmic representations. The items on display in the Avery Classics reading room range in time from approximately 1825 to 1966 demonstrating sustained artistic interest in the genre. Most document urban centers and take the form of long prints that follow streets through cities as various as Tokyo, Leipzig, Paris, London and New York. They capture the built environment at a specific moment in time and record other important elements of society such as modes of transportation and contemporary fashion.
From Motherwell to Hofmann: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945–1966
February 11-May 20, 2018
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
Art in Life: Engravings by Robert Nanteuil
(c. 1623-1678) from the Frederick Paul Keppel Collection
Curated by the M.A. in Art History program with Art Properties
February 12-May 18, 2018
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Wallach Study Center for Art & Architecture
Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985
September 17, 2017-April 1, 2018
LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
The Silver Caesars: A Renaissance Mystery
December 12, 2017-March 11, 2018
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Avery Classics has loaned material to this exhibition which is dedicated to the extraordinary set of 12 silver-gilt standing cups known collectively as the Aldobrandini Tazze. The tazze bring to life the history of the first 12 Caesars, as recounted by the Roman historian Suetonius. Each stands over a foot high and is composed of a shallow footed dish surmounted by the figure of one of the Caesars; four scenes from Suetonius's Life of the relevant ruler appear intricately wrought upon the concave interior of each dish.
Never Built New York
September 17, 2017-February 18, 2018
Queens Museum, NY
Never Built New York, co-curated by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, invites visitors to discover the New York City that might have been through original prints, drawings, models, installations, and animations.
Florine Stettheimer, Bathers, ca. 1920, oil on canvas, 26 x 30 in. (66.2 x 76.3 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, Gift of the Estate of Ettie Stettheimer, 1967 (1967.23.17)
FLORINE STETTHEIMER: PAINTING POETRY
October 21, 2017-January 28, 2018
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Columbia University is the major lender to the exhibition Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry, which will be shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada.
The Arch of Titus - from Jerusalem to Rome and Back
September 14, 2017-January 14, 2018
Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY
Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem, and Modern Housing
September 9-December 17, 2017
Wallach Art Gallery, Lenfest Center
Columbia University
Vice/Motherboard: "Frank Lloyd Wright Paved the Way for Bad Silicon Valley Housing Ideas"
Architectural Digest: "Frank Lloyd Wright and Housing Modern Society"
The Architect's Newspaper: "Frank Lloyd Wright and NYC’s first public housing development together in new exhibit"
Metropolis Mag: "New Exhibit Explores Race, Gender, Class, and More, in Frank Lloyd Wright’s and Harlem’s Housing"
Archinect: "Living in America': An unexpected common history between Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City + Harlem's public housing"
Common Edge: "Where Was Jim Crow? Living in Frank Lloyd Wright’s America"
CityLab: "When Frank Lloyd Wright Comes to Harlem"
Dealer's Choice: The Samuel Kootz Gallery 1945–1966
August 25-December 17, 2017
Fralin Museum of Art, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
website
Frank Lloyd Wright, The disappearing city, New York [1932]. detail. AA9040 W93
CLASSIC WRIGHT: Frank Lloyd Wright in Print
Curator: Teresa Harris
June 26 - December 1, 2017
Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth on June 8th, 1867, Avery Classics has staged an exhibition focusing on publications produced by and devoted to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The exhibition incorporates books from Wright’s own library alongside volumes already owned by Avery Classics. Thematically it explores Wright’s ideas concerning book design and the Japanese print, along with the reception of his work in Europe, mediated by publications such as Ausgeführte Bauten – in all its numerous iterations – and the Dutch periodical Wendingen. Finally, it allows the viewer a window into Wright’s creative process, following the evolution of a single manuscript from handwritten first draft through to publication.
Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive
June 12-October 1, 2017
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library and MoMA are pleased to announce the opening of a co-presented exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, June 12 – October 1, 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art.
Drawing on the expansive Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archive, jointly acquired by Avery and MoMA in 2012, the exhibition comprises approximately 450 works made from the 1890s through the 1950s, including architectural drawings, models, building fragments, films, television broadcasts, print media, furniture, tableware, textiles, paintings, photographs, and scrapbooks, along with a number of works that have rarely or never been publicly exhibited.
Marking the 150th anniversary of the American architect’s birth on June 8, 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, critically engages his multifaceted practice.
Installation view at The Jewish Museum showing the triptych of sister portraits from 1923 by Florine Stettheimer, (left to right): Portrait of Myself, oil on canvas laid on board, 40 3/8 x 26 3/8 in. (102.7 x 67 cm); Portrait of My Sister, Carrie W. Stettheimer, oil on canvas laid on hardboard backing, 37 7/8 x 26 in. (96.2 x 66.2 cm); and Portrait of My Sister, Ettie Stettheimer, oil on canvas laid on hardboard backing, 40 3/8 x 26 1/4 in. (102.2 x 66.8 cm). Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Gift of the Estate of Ettie Stettheimer, 1967.
FLORINE STETTHEIMER: PAINTING POETRY
May 5-September 24, 2017
Jewish Museum, New York
Columbia University is the major lender to the current exhibition Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry, which is now open at The Jewish Museum in New York City and then travels to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada.
New York Crystal Palace 1853
Bard Graduate Center
Mar. 24-July 30, 2017
Shedding light on a near-forgotten aspect of New York City’s cultural history, this exhibition explores the history and material culture of the first world’s fair held in the United States.
Color Harmony in the Home: American Paint Publications from 1870-1950
Guest curator: Judy Jacob
January 17 - June 16, 2017
Monday – Friday: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Paint is practical. Paint is beautiful. Paint hides flaws. Paint reflects taste and status. The brochures and samples presented in this exhibition offer an insight to painting practice and color history, and give hints—both subtle and direct—on changing trends in style and advertising.
Avery Library’s collection of trade publications, of which paint catalogs are a substantial subset, features over 4,000 individual items. Never intended for library holdings, these items represent the marketing acumen of paint manufacturers and the decorating aspirations of American homeowners from the 1870s to the 1950s. Avery’s collection was started by Herbert Mitchell (1924-2008), former Curator of Avery Classics, who saw research potential in brochures found on flea-market tables.
Following the Civil War, advances in manufacturing had an enormous impact on the paint industry, as well as on marketing. Publications such as those displayed here arose from the new convenience of ready-mixed paints, provided in cans with re-sealable lids, a major advancement in paint storage. Ready-mixed paints enabled the do-it-yourself painters; homeowners could now easily paint their own homes and furnishings. One could purchase paint, pick-up a free how-to manual, head home to don old clothes and transform one's surroundings through color.
This exhibition is presented to coincide with the 6th International Architectural Paint Research Conference, hosted by Columbia University in New York City from March 15 to 17, 2017.
WET PAINT!
March 15-April 25, 2017
Avery Drawings & Archives Foyer, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
The North American paint & varnish industry, as it expanded, left us with an amazing assortment of colorful vintage objects—cans, sample sets, store displays and advertising signs.
Avery Library in collaboration with private lenders, is pleased to present WET PAINT!! The exhibit displays items dating from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century and is designed to complement the Avery Classics exhibit: “Color Harmony in the Home: American Paint Publications from 1870-1950” which showcases a selection of items from Avery’s extensive trade catalog and brochure collection.
Lenders to WET PAINT!! are: Mary Jablonski, Judith M. Jacob, Norman R. Weiss and Adam Woodward. Exhibit installation was done with the assistance of GSAPP Historic Preservation graduate students Tania Alam, Alex Ray and Katrina Virbitsky.
This exhibition is presented to coincide with the 6th International Architectural Paint Research Conference hosted by Columbia University GSAPP in New York City from March 15 to 17, 2017.
Both exhibitions are on view in Avery Library through April 25th.
For details and information on visiting the exhibits, contact: Avery Classics
Installation view at The New-York Historical Society: Unknown artist, Portrait of Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838), ca. 1820, oil on canvas, frame size: 56 x 44 in. (142.2 x 111.7 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York (C00.37)
THE FIRST JEWISH AMERICANS: FREEDOM AND CULTURE IN THE NEW WORLD
New-York Historical Society
October 28, 2016-February 26, 2017
Sir William Beechey and studio, Portrait of George III, King of Great Britain (1738-1820), early 19th century, oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 24 5/8 in. (90 x 62.5 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Gift of Mrs. Mary Hill Hill, 1943 (C00.771)
The Battle of Brooklyn
New-York Historical Society
September 23, 2016-January 8, 2017
Art Properties has loaned a painting to the exhibition The Battle of Brooklyn which is now open at The New-York Historical Society. This exhibition commemorates the decisive first battle that took place between the rebel forces and the British following the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
Chicago, the city beautiful. Chicago, [194-?] AA735 C4 C4345 S
Viewbooks: Window into America
June 20, 2016-December 23, 2016
Curators: Teresa Harris and Lena Newman
Monday – Friday: 9:00am - 5:00pm
Avery Classics Reading Room, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Avery Library opens its exhibition with a delightful display of selections from its American Viewbooks collection. The exhibit celebrates the completion of our CLIR Hidden Collections grant project
The Rare Book and Manuscript Section of the American Library Association defines viewbooks as a type of published booklet “consisting primarily of views of particular places, events, and activities, sometimes connected by accordion folds.” Avery Classics holds more than 4,000 such titles, focusing almost exclusively on American towns and cities at the end of the 19th- and beginning of the 20th-century. These ephemeral publications were originally intended for a variety of purposes – as souvenirs to be purchased by tourists, as advertisements to prospective residents, and as published records of specific events. Heavily illustrated, viewbooks often include images of new civic buildings, businesses on Main Street and various other features of the local built environment.
For today’s researcher, viewbooks are a wonderful window into a past America, one in the midst of rapid urban and suburban development. Viewbooks have survived as accidental records of the changing architectural landscape across America at the turn of the century. They chronicle the developing and uniquely-American vernacular architecture vocabulary. They also provide a window into the rapidly changing printing and publishing landscape. Making use of new technologies to reproduce photographs quickly and cheaply, viewbooks are an excellent way to approach the history of printing and the accessibility of printed matter. Finally, viewbooks give modern-day readers a glimpse of how towns and cities across the country – some still thriving, others long faded – presented themselves and positioned themselves for the future. From New Holstein, Wisconsin to New York City, Viewbooks represent a place’s attempt to put its best foot forward and to situate itself in the greater American cultural landscape.
The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography and Film
Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam
July 27-November 27, 2016
Works from Avery Classics
Florine Stettheimer, Jenny and Genevieve, ca. 1915, oil on canvas, 32 x 43 3/8 in. (81.2 x 110.3 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Gift of the Estate of Ettie Stettheimer, 1967 (1967.23.27)
O'Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York
June 23 - September 18, 2016
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Art Properties has loaned six paintings by Florine Stettheimer and a drawing by Marguerite Zorach.
Panoramic view of Rome from The Illustrated London News, Vol. 16 (Jan. to June 1850)
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 place, but also as a romantic idea onto which artists, poets, and writers project their own imaginations and longings. City of the Soul examines the evolving image of Rome in art and literature with a display of books, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and drawings.” Among the items loaned by Avery Classics are a panorama of Rome from The Illustrated London News (above), a travel album with hand-colored images of Rome that may have belonged to Friedrich Wilhelm, King of Prussia, and a detailed map of the city produced by Paul-Marie Letarouilly in 1841. Avery Digital Lab prepared a high-resolution digital image of the Letarouilly map, which was used by the Morgan to create a digital walking tour of Rome, allowing visitors to see some of the works on display next to modern-day images of the monuments.
The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography and Film
Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville
March 11-July 4, 2016
Works from Avery Classics
Cutaway: Drawing the Architectural Section
Curator: Teresa Harris
Avery Classics reading room
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 three-dimensional modeling programs have begun to alter the architect’s relationship to drawing. This exhibition focuses on a single type of drawing – the section – created by cutting a plane through a structure, allowing an architect to evoke the interior spatial complexity of a building. The images range from Palladio’s section of the Villa La Rotonda (1570) to Ólafur Eliasson's Your House (2006) in which each of the 454 leaves represent a vertical cross-section of the artist's own house in Copenhagen.
Architecture of Life
UC Berkeley Art Museum & Film Archive
January 28 - May 30, 2016
Avery Drawings & Archives has contributed a drawing by Buckminster Fuller.
Florine Stettheimer, Jenny and Genevieve, ca. 1915, oil on canvas, 32 x 43 3/8 in. (81.2 x 110.3 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Gift of the Estate of Ettie Stettheimer, 1967 (1967.23.27)
O'Keeffe, Stettheimer, Torr, Zorach: Women Modernists in New York
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
February 18 - May 16, 2016
Art Properties has loaned six paintings by Florine Stettheimer and a drawing by Marguerite Zorach.
Image from instructional booklet accompanying Richter’s Anchor-Building-Bricks: real stone in three colours. (New York, 1887). Avery Classics AA200 D78
Classics at Play: architectural toys from Avery's collections
Curator: Teresa Harris
Avery Classics reading room
November 16, 2015-February 29, 2016
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography and Film
The Jewish Museum, New York
September 25, 2015-February 7, 2016
Works from Avery Classics
Carver Houses from from the Simon Breines papers, circa 1930-1990. Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York
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 Breines, and other ephemera. Included in the exhibition is a digital image gallery of plans of New York City Housing Authority projects from the Breines collection."
Empire State Plaza at 50
New York State Museum
June 21, 2015-Jan. 17, 2016
In June 1965, the cornerstone was laid for what would become The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza. Marketed at the time as a “Design for the Future,” the Plaza exists today as an icon of 20th century Modernist architecture. This exhibit commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Empire State Plaza and tells the story of how the center of New York’s capital city became a public space where government, culture, and community converge.
Original materials represented by surrogates.
Arthur Wesley Dow, The Enchanted Mesa, 1913, oil on canvas, 32 3/4 x 54 in., Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Transferred from the Women’s Faculty Club (C00.1371).
Jewel City: Art from San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International
Exposition
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
October 17, 2015-January 10, 2016
Works from Avery Art Properties
Lake Tahoe Summer Colony. 1923. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York)
Tahoe: A Visual History
Nevada Museum of Art
August 22, 2015-January 10, 2016
Avery Drawings & Archives has contributed three Frank Lloyd Wright drawings for the Lake Tahoe Summer Colony (unbuilt) of 1923.
"Wolf Dance," Inupiat people, 1890s, graphite and pen-and-ink on paper, 6 1/4 x 9 5/16 in. (16 x 23.7 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, The Bush Collection of Religion and Culture (C00.1483.302).
Messages from across Time and Space: Inupiat Drawings from the 1890s at Columbia University
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, 420 Hamilton Hall, Columbia University
September 22 - November 20, 2015
Works from Avery Art Properties
A.J. Downing and his Legacy
Guest curator: Janet Foster
Avery Classics reading room
Sept 1 - Nov. 13, 2015
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Pre Fab Farm Unit, Aerial View. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York)
FOOD dal cucchiaio al mondo = FOOD to Space
MAXXI - Museo Nazionale dell Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
May 29-November 8, 2015
An exhibition that tells us about how food crosses, changes and influences the body, houses, streets, cities, and the landscape of the entire world.
Over 50 works by different artists and architects that, in a presentation that ranges from the dimension of the human body to that of the planet, from the kitchen to the home, from the city to the region and the world, tackle the global political, social, urban and economic effects that the production, distribution, consumption and disposal of food have on communities and territories.
Avery Library Drawing & Archives has 3 drawings from his Pre Fab Farm Unit of 1932 in the exhibition.
Celebrating Avery's 125th Anniversary: highlights from the permanent collections
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
November 2, 2015 3:00 - 9:00 pm
Curators: Carole Ann Fabian, Janet Parks, Teresa Harris
Exhibit & reception: Avery Library reading rooms
A one night only opportunity to view 125 extraordinary works curated from Avery’s remarkable collections. Spanning seven centuries from Alberti, Serlio & Piranesi to Le Corbusier and Wright, a tour de force presentation of publications and drawings from our art, rare books, drawings and archival collections.
Giorgio Cavaglieri, Jefferson Market Library elevation, pencil on tracing paper.
Saving Place: Fifty Years of New York City Landmarks
Museum of the City of New York, New York
April 21-September 13, 2015
Many believe New York’s pioneering Landmarks Law, enacted in April 1965, was the key factor in the rebirth of New York in the final quarter of the 20th century. It ensured that huge swaths of the city remain a rich complex of new and old. It also ensured the creative re-use of countless buildings. At the same time, a new body of important architecture has emerged as architects, clients, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission devised innovative solutions for the renovation of landmark buildings and for new buildings in historic districts.
Saving Place is presented to celebrate the law's 50th anniversary.
Avery Drawings & Archives has 6 drawings and 1 typescript by Talbot Hamlin in the exhibition while Avery Classics has a real estate brochure for 2 Fifth Avenue, NYC, on display
Selections from the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection
Curators: Chris Sala and Teresa Harris
Avery Classics Reading Room
June 2 - August 31, 2015
Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
Face to Face: the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959/2015
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow)
June 10-August 24, 2015
Working closely with the MoAA, Face-to-Face: The American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959/2015 explores the uncharted reverberations this exhibition, held in Moscow, had on culture in Soviet Russia. Through the perspective of the socio-political situation today, the “resurrection” of this legendary show aims at highlighting how crucial such “face to face” encounters were not only for culture, but also potentially for altering the course of the Cold War.
Partial reconstructions of the elements in the original exhibition, including artworks and aspects of the design will be exhibited alongside rare primary materials and artifacts, historical reviews, films, recollections and comments from visitors and tour guides.
Original materials represented by surrogates.
Sports Palace (Mexico City, Mexico), 1968 from the collection: Félix Candela architectural records and papers; Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980
Museum of Modern Art
March 29-July 19, 2015
A never-before exhibited scrapbook documenting Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1931 trip to Rio will be on display in the Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art from March 29-July 19, 2015.
The scrapbook, part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives, and 2 drawings of the Sports Palace in Mexico City by Felix Candela are on loan to the exhibition from Avery Library’s Drawings & Archives Department.
The show offers a complex overview of the positions, debates, and architectural creativity from Mexico and Cuba to the Southern Cone between 1955 and the early 1980s.
The exhibition features architectural drawings, architectural models, vintage photographs, and film clips alongside newly commissioned models and photographs. While the exhibition focuses on the period of 1955 to 1980 in most of the countries of Latin America, it is introduced by an ample prelude on the preceding three decades of architectural developments in the region, presentations of the development of several key university campuses in cities like Mexico City and Caracas, and a look at the development of the new Brazilian capital at Brasilia.
Relief with Guardian Figure, from the Lianhua Cave, Longmen, China, late Northern Wei dynasty, dated 533, limestone with traces of polychromy, 24 1/8 x 11 x 4 1/2 in. (61.2 x 27.8 x 11.4 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Sackler Collections (S1100).
China Then and Now
Nassau County Museum of Art
November 22, 2014-March 8, 2015
Art Properties has loaned 10 Buddhist stone sculptures and ink rubbings taken from 2 of these works to the exhibition China Then and Now, which runs from November 22, 2014 to March 8, 2015, at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, NY. These Chinese sculptures date from the Northern Wei (386-534) to the Tang dynasties (618-907), and some of the works in the collection are believed to have been excavated from the 6th-century Buddhist cave temples at Xiangtangshan in northern China. All of these works are part of our extensive holdings in the Sackler Collections, donated to Columbia University by the physician and art collector Dr. Arthur M. Sackler. They recently had traveled as part of the large exhibition Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculptures from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University, held at the Wallach Art Gallery in 2008 and in other venues across the United States. The current exhibition, China Then and Now, brings our sculptures together with blue-and-white porcelains of the Ming and Qing dynasties (17th-18th centuries) loaned by the Frick Collection in New York City and contemporary ink paintings by the Beijing artist Liu Dan (b. 1953). -by Roberto C. Ferrari, Curator of Art Properties
Exhibition website
Wallach Treasures Rediscovered website
Florine Stettheimer, Nude Study, Standing with Hands Clasped, late 1890s, oil on canvas mounted on board, 30 x 18 in. (76.3 x 45.8 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Gift of the Estate of Ettie Stettheimer, 1967 (1967.23.02)
The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art, New York, NY
October 17, 2014-January 4, 2015
Roberto C. Ferrari, Curator of Art Properties, was a guest docent for the exhibition on Nov. 8,2014. For more information, contact the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.
Florine Stettheimer, Portrait of My Sister, Carrie W. Stettheimer, 1923, oil on canvas laid on hardboard backing, 37 7/8 x 26 in. (96.2 x 66.2 cm), Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Gift of the Estate of Ettie Stettheimer, 1967 (1967.17.07)
Florine Stettheimer
Lenbachhaus, Munich
September 27, 2014 - January 4, 2015
Florine Stettheimer is the first international exhibition on the extraordinary life and career of the New York-based painter and designer Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). The exhibition is being held at the Lenbachhaus Kunstbau in Munich, Germany, and includes nine paintings from the Art Properties collection, including the artist's highly-regarded 1923 portraits of herself and her sisters Ettie and Carrie. Also included in the exhibition are a selection of maquettes for her stage production of Four Saints in Three Acts from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Columbia University holds the largest collection of Stettheimer's works, including more than sixty paintings, drawings, and decorative arts in Art Properties. The Stettheimer collection was a bequest to Columbia in 1967 from the estate of her sister Ettie Stettheimer, a graduate of Barnard College. The Lenbachhaus is renowned internationally for its collection of works by the "Blue Rider" group and other important German modernists prior to World War I, many of whose works Stettheimer would have known living in Munich during the early 1900s.
Exhibition website
Columbia University Libraries press release
Sylvan Cemetery: Architecture, Art and Landscape at Woodlawn
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University
September 3-November 1, 2014
Sylvan Cemetery: Architecture, Art and Landscape at Woodlawn coincides with Woodlawn’s 150th anniversary celebration, and celebrates the Cemetery’s 2006 gift of its archive—the most complete set of 19th– and 20th–century cemetery records held in the public trust -– to the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. The exhibition at Columbia’s Wallach Art Gallery marks the first time selections from this archive will be displayed. Sylvan Cemetery highlights the renowned architects, artists, artisans and landscape designers whose work has come to define The Woodlawn Cemetery, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011 for the significance of its art and architecture.
Sylvan Cemetery is co-curated by Janet Parks, Charles D. Warren and Susan Olsen. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, co-published by Columbia University’s Avery Library and The Woodlawn Conservancy.
Exhibition site
Exhibition catalog
ARTnews article
Columbia Spectator article
Columbia University press release
Hyperallergic.com article
New York Times Home & Garden article
New Yorker review
Woodlawn Cemetery Records at Avery Drawings & Archives
WNYC’s Brian Lehrer interviews Susan Olsen podcast
Image Credit: Cathedral of St. John the Divine (interior detail); photo by Michael Freeman
Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America's Great Public Spaces
Museum of the City of New York
March 26-September 7, 2014
Sixteen drawings and numerous artifacts and photographs from the Guastavino archives in the Drawings & Archives are on display at the Museum of the City of New York. Titled Palaces for the People: Guastavino and the Art of Structural Tile, the exhibition was curated by a team of scholars under the direction of Professor John Ochsendorf of MIT, author of the 2009 monograph, Guastavino Vaulting. The curatorial team included Janet Parks, Curator of Drawings and Archives, Avery Library; Professor Richard Wilson, University of Virginia; Professor Christopher Capozzola, MIT; and Chrysanthe B. Broikos, curator, the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.. Additional New York material has been added with the assistance of Martin Moeller.
The National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored the development and execution of the exhibition, from a Consultation Grant in 2006 to the implementation grant for the exhibition in 2011 as part of the “We the People” program. Additional funding came from the Institut Ramon Llull and the Diputació de Barcelona.
On April 11th, Janet Parks will moderate a panel discussion on Guastavino's Palaces for the People: from archive to exhibition.
Columbia University Libraries press release
Columbia University Record review & video
New York Review of Books review
Panel discussion with Santiago Calatrava and Jill Lerner for WNYC February 24, 2014
Panel discussion at Columbia April 11, 2014
Tour of old City Hall Station with the Transit Museum April 12, 2014
Panel on innovations in tile with Daniel Libeskind and more July 7, 2014
Please see entries below for the National Building Museum and Boston Public Library venues.
Garden Party
Nassau County Museum of Art
March 8-July 6, 2014
Art Properties has loaned a painting from Columbia's world-famous collection of works by Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) to the exhibition "Garden Party," which runs from March 8 to July 6 at the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York. The exhibition explores the imagery of outdoor entertainments, gardens, and flowers through paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts, and includes works by artists such as Marc Chagall, David Hockney, Larry Rivers, and Louis Comfort Tiffany.
The painting on loan from the Art Properties collection is the work you see here, Landscape No. 2 with Bathers, painted by Florine Stettheimer in 1911. The artist was living in Europe with her mother and sisters at the time, and her interest in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism is evident in the bright hues, sun-dappled light, and short brushstrokes that make this charming landscape come to life. The Stettheimer collection of paintings, drawings, decorative arts, and archival papers was donated to Columbia by the estate of Ettie Stettheimer, the painter's sister, and today are available for exhibition loans and research consultations by appointment.
Image credit: Florine Stettheimer, Landscape No. 2 with Bathers, 1911, oil on canvas, 30 x 26 in., Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Gift of the Estate of Ettie Stettheimer, 1967 (1967.23.19).
Image credit: Frank Lloyd Wright. /St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie Towers/, New York Project 1927-1931. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York)
Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal
Museum of Modern Art
February 1-June 1, 2014
Frank Lloyd Wright and the City: Density vs. Dispersal celebrates the recent joint acquisition of Frank Lloyd Wright’s extensive archive by MoMA and Columbia University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library. Through an initial selection of drawings, films, and large-scale architectural models, the exhibition examines the tension in Wright’s thinking about the growing American city in the 1920s and 1930s, when he worked simultaneously on radical new forms for the skyscraper and on a comprehensive plan for the urbanization of the American landscape titled “Broadacre City.”
Columbia University Libraries press release
Image credit: Adan Araiza
15 MINUTES
Andy Warhol’s Photographic Legacy
Friday, April 4, 2014, 4:30 pm – 8 pm
One-Day Exhibition of Works from Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, and Public Program Sponsored by the School of the Arts, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, and the Department of Art History & Archaeology, in conjunction with The Brant Foundation Art Study Center
Art Properties page on exhibition
Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902-1936
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University in the City of New York
January 22-March 15, 2014
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 work include heroic goddesses and naturalistic animals in motion, and her works range in size from medallions to monumental public sculptures.
The bronze sculpture from Art Properties seen here is the work included in the exhibition. Entitled Cranes Rising, 1934, the sculpture shows a flock of birds first at rest in the marshes, then moving upward in a coil, with the top crane soaring into the sky. The sculpture was a gift from the artist to the University in 1950 and for decades was installed in the Philosophy Department. In 1965 Huntington also donated to Columbia her monumental sculpture of Equestrian Lincoln, which is located on the grounds of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Image credit: Anna Hyatt Huntington, Cranes Rising, 1934, bronze, H. 44 in., Gift of the artist, Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York (C00.837). Photo by Mark Ostrander.
Selling the Dwelling: The Books that Built America's Houses
The Grolier Club
December 11, 2013-February 8, 2014
Avery Classics and Drawings & Archives have contributed to the Grolier Club's exhibition on the history of the American Dream of home ownership. Over 200 rare books, periodicals, drawings, periodicals, and printed ephemera will show how the idea of “A Home for All” was marketed in the United States, first through eighteenth-century builder’s guides, then by nineteenth-century pattern books, and finally by twentieth-century house plan catalogues.
Image credit: Samuel Newsom, Picturesque California Homes no. 2, San Francisco: S. & J.C. Newsom, [1887?]. Avery Classics AT290 N478 1887.
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America's Great Public Spaces
National Building Museum
March 16, 2013-January 29, 2014
Please see entry below for the Boston Public Library venue.
Image credit: Guastavino Company. Della Robbia Room, Vanderbilt Hotel, Warren & Wetmore Architects 1912, New York, NY. Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis
Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 14, 2013-January 5. 2014
This fall's special exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum Léger: Modern Art and the Metropolis offers a multi-media exploration of the career of French modernist Fernand Léger (1881-1955). Curated by Anna Vallye, a postdoctoral fellow at the museum and an alumna of Columbia's Art History & Archaeology Ph.D. program, the show brings together paintings, films, architectural models, and other designs by the artist to offer new insight into his engagement with urban environments. Avery Classics loaned many items to the show, which will travel to the Museo Correr in Venice this January. These loans included ten plates from L'Architecture Vivante, the avant-garde architectural serial edited by Jean Badovici that was published in Paris throughout the 1920s and early 1930s. Classics also loaned an issue of the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau and the catalog from Friedrich Kiesler's Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik exhibition in Vienna in 1924.
Image credit: Fernand Léger. Fresco design for a music hall (left) and Exterior fresco design for a hotel (right).
Plate 9 from L'Architecture Vivante, Fall/Winter 1924. Avery Classics AB Ar433. Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Plaque with a hunter and lion
Iran, ca. 8th-7th century BCE
Ivory or bone
1 7/8 x 2 3/8 x 14 in.
4.8 x 6 x .6 cm
(S0130)
Sackler Collections, Columbia University in the City of New York
Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth: Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections
The Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Willamette University
August 31-Decenber 22, 2013
Image credit: Richard M. Upjohn
Lodges at East entrance of Green-Wood cemetery
n.d. ; Ink on paper, mounted on board
(1000.011.00353)
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
A Beautiful Way to Go: New York's Green-Wood Cemetery
Museum of the City of New York
May 15-October 13, 2013
3 drawings by Richard M. Upjohn and 1 by Warren & Wetmore
Image Credit: Hugh Ferriss. United Nations, New York, NY – Bird's-eye perspective looking south. 1947 (1000.001.00255). Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes
Museum of Modern Art
June 15-September 23, 2012
Five drawings from Drawings and Archives are on loan to the new exhibition, Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, the first major exhibition on his work at the Museum of Modern Art. While the French architect did not build in New York, the drawings lent by Avery reflect his impact on the city and architectural culture. In 1935, Le Corbusier delivered a series of lectures to architecture students at Columbia, drawing as he spoke and leaving behind murals of his thoughts, two of which are on display. Le Corbusier left an indelible mark on New York in his participation in 1947 on the United Nations Board of Design, as seen in three drawings by Hugh Ferriss, chief renderer for the Board of Design.
Avery Library blog:
https://blogs.library.columbia.edu/avery/2013/06/10/hugh-ferriss-in-le-corbusier-exhibit-at-moma/
MoMA Press Release:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1321
Image Credit: Henri Labrouste, "Les trois autels," in the album A Pierre Guerin, Avery Classics collection, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library (AA2319 R66383)
Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light
Museum of Modern Art
March 10-June 24, 2013
Avery Library is pleased to have contributed a wide selection of architectural materials to Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light, which is opening at the Museum of Modern Art on March 10. Organized by Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art; Corinne Bélier, chief curator, Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine; and Marc Le Cœur, art historian, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Estampes et de la photographie, this is the first monographic exhibition of the nineteenth-century French architect's work to open in the United States.
Avery Library blog:
https://blogs.library.columbia.edu/avery/2013/03/04/avery-in-momas-labrouste-show/
MoMA Press Release:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1319
Image credit:
Guastavino Company
Della Robbia Room, Vanderbilt Hotel
Warren & Wetmore Architects
1912
New York, NY
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Image credit:
Guastavino Company
Cathedral of St. John the Divine: Stress Diagram of Main Rib "A" at the Arch of the Choir
1908
Heins and LaFarge, architects
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America's Great Public Spaces
Boston Bublic Library
through February 24, 2013
Seventeen drawings and numerous artifacts and photographs from the Guastavino archives in the Drawings & Archives are on display in a new exhibition at the Boston Public Library. Titled Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces, the exhibition was curated by a team of scholars under the direction of Professor John Ochsendorf of MIT, author of the 2009 monograph, Guastavino Vaulting. The curatorial team included Janet Parks, Curator of Drawings and Archives, Avery Library; Professor Richard Wilson, University of Virginia; Professor Christopher Capozzola, MIT; and Chrysanthe B. Broikos, curator, the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C..
Attending the exhibition were ten members of the Guastavino family and Christiane Collins, whose husband Professor George Collins secured the Guastavino archives for Columbia University. The exhibition will remain at the Boston Public Library until February 24th and then travel to the National Building Museum. A New York venue is being planned. The National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored the development and execution of the exhibition, from a Consultation Grant in 2006 to the implementation grant for the exhibition in 2011 as part of the “We the People” program. Additional funding came from the Institut Ramon Llull and the Diputació de Barcelona.
A day featuring talks on various aspects of Guastavino buildings and history will be presented on November 3, 2012, as part of the Construction History Society of America’s conference held at MIT. Janet Parks will deliver the keynote address on the relationship of Guastavino and Cass Gilbert. Nineteen papers will follow presenting research on major buildings by Guastavino and new technical studies based on preservation projects. In addition to American scholars more than ten architects and scholars from Spain will attend and present papers.
Buchman & Kahn, architects
Lefcourt State Building, 37th and Broadway: 37th Street elevation
1927
Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
URBAN FABRIC: Building New York's Garment District
The Skyscraper Museum
July 25, 2012 through February 17, 2013
The largest concentration of skyscraper factories in the world, the 18 blocks that were the heart of New York's Garment District, once supported more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs and produced nearly 3/4 of all women's and children's apparel in the United States. The rapid development of the district--the area of west midtown from 35th to 41st Streets and from Seventh to Ninth Avenues--occurred almost entirely within the boom decade of the 1920s, when more than 125 stepped-back "loft" buildings took the pyramidal forms dictated by the city's new zoning law.
Urban Fabric is guest-curated by Andrew S. Dolkart, the Director of the Historic Preservation Program and the James Marston Fitch Associate Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Emiliano Espinosa. Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Spanish children's drawings of the Civil War collection
Juanito Duran Gratacos. Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Spanish children's drawings of the Civil War collection
Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000
Museum of Modern Art
July 29-November 5, 2012
The Museum of Modern Art exhibition Century of the Child, has 5 drawings from the Avery Library Drawings and Archives department.
3 drawings from the Spanish Children's Drawings and 2 drawings by Otto Wagner, probably never exhibited before for a Haus des Kindes of 1917.
Wagner died in 1918 and the project was never built. The Haus des Kindes was not an orphanage- it was intended as a place for children separated from their families by the war where the families could go to try to find the children. The older children were given occupational training should they end up on their own.
The Wagner drawings were a gift to Avery in 2000 in memory of Annie Neubrunn, Emil Neubrunn, Fritz Oberlander, Adolf Placzek, and Harry and Elizabeth Gutman by Cornelia and Peter Oberlander.
Avery Library blog:
https://blogs.library.columbia.edu/avery/2012/07/23/moma-century-of-the-child-exhibition/
Avery's Children's Drawings of the Spanish Civil War:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/children/
MoMA interactive exhibit:
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2012/centuryofthechild/
NYT Review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/arts/design/review-century-of-the-child-at-moma.html?_r=0