Past | Present | Future | 2019: Selections from the Lafayette Art Collection
The art collection of Lafayette College includes many treasures from neoclassicism to the contemporary period. Past | Present | Future | 2019 provides a glimpse into the diversity and richness of this invaluable teaching resource and includes paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and photographs, and video. New acquisitions will be highlighted. The exhibition will span both the Williams Center Gallery and the new Kirby Art Study Center.
Past | Present | Future | 2019
Henri Cartier-Bresson, (French 1908–2004)
Portrait of Carl Jung, Kusnacht, Switzerland, 1959, Vintage gelatin silver print
Gift of Bennett (’79) and Meg Goodman, 2018
Chambermaids, Germany, ca. 1960, Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Gift of Bennett (’79) and Meg Goodman, 2018
Les Halles, Paris, 1968, Vintage gelatin silver print
Promised Gift, 2019
Frederick Knecht Detwiller, class of 1902, (American, 1882–1953)
By Notre Dame Paris, line and aquatint etching in zinc plate on buff paper
Frederick Knecht Detwiller Collection
Alex Katz, (American, b. 1927)
Double Portrait, c. 1960, black and white crayon lithograph, 74/85, printed by Drum Lithographers (American, 20th century); published by Collectors Graphics, Inc. (American, c. 1960- )
Gift of Michael Sherman, 1998
Ed Kerns, (American b. 1945)
Halifax, 1972, oil on canvas
Gift of Laura Nurse, 2018
Ed Kerns (American b. 1945)& Lee Upton (American b. 1953)
Autobiography, 1989; image by Kerns, text by Upton; screenprint of original acrylic, pastel, collage on paper included in exhibition Ed Kerns & Lee Upton, a Collaboration of Poetry and Images, 1990
Text is included in “Privacy,” by Lee Upton, published in The New Yorker, April 29. 2019
Kim Thomas Malm ’90
Orange Room with Big Still Life, 2008, acrylic on canvas
Gift of Kim Thomas Malm ’90, 2015
Richard Mayhew, (American, b. 1924)
Trees, II, 1960–1965, black and white crayon lithograph, arches paper, 42/89, printed by Drum Lithographers (American, 20th century); published by Collectors Graphics, Inc. (American, c. 1960-)
Gift of Michael Sherman, 1998
Summation, 2013, hand pulled silkscreen, handmade paper, Published by Experimental Printmaking Institute, 37/150
Experimental Printmaking Institute, EPI, Collection
Thomas Nast, (German-borne American, 1840–1902)
New York & New Jersey “Bosses” Out of Politics, ca. 1866, pen and ink, and pencil on paper
Kirby Museum Collection, Lafayette College
Sketch from “Sherman’s March thru Georgia,” c. 1866, oil paint; graphite on wove paper
Gift of Mabel Nast Crawford
The Hush Club, not dated, ink, pencil on paper, mounted on cardboard
Kirby Museum Collection, Lafayette College
Untitled: (Perhaps This Will Bring Them to Their Senses,” 1882, wood engraving, with pen and ink notations
Kirby Museum Collection, Lafayette College
Perhaps This Will Bring them to Their Senses, Dec 23, 1882, wood engraving, Harper’s Weekly
Kirby Museum Collection, Lafayette College
Fairfield Porter, (American 1907–1975)
Snow Landscape, c. 1960, black and white pen lithograph, 25/85, printed by Drum Lithographers (American, 20th century); published by Collectors Graphics, Inc. (American, c. 1960-)
Gift of Michael Sherman, 1998
Edward W. Quigley (American 1898–1977)
Chemist at Work, 1942, Vintage gelatin silver print
Gift of Bennett (’79) and Meg Goodman, 2016
Still life with three bins of metal bearings on assembly line, 1945, Vintage gelatin silver print
Gift of Bennett (’79) and Meg Goodman, 2016
Still-life with glass of milk, flowers and perfumes, 1936, Vintage gelatin silver print
Gift of Bennett (’79) and Meg Goodman, 2016
S.K.F. worker adjusting gear, 1945, Vintage gelatin silver print
Gift of Bennett (’79) and Meg Goodman, 2016
S.K.F. worker grease bearings with syringe, 1945, Vintage gelatin silver print
Gift of Bennett (’79) and Meg Goodman, 2016
Iman Raad (Iranian, b. 1979)
At this Table We Breach, 2019, color reduction woodcut on Stonehenge Paper. B.A.T.
Published by the Experimental Printmaking Institute, EPI, Lafayette College
Gift of EPI, 2019
Joyce Tenneson, (American b. 1945)
Coretta Scott King, 2000, printed later, Archival pigment on paper
Gift of the Joseph Cornell ’91 Family, 2018
Brooke Astor, 2001, printed later, Archival pigment on paper
Gift of Dr. Robert Cranley ’91 P’20 & Mrs. Susan B. Cranley P’20, 2018
Judith Turner (American 1939–)
The Parthenon Frieze (detail), ca 1999, from The Parthenon Project, 1999, Gelatin silver print, from The Parthenon Project exhibition, 1999
Gift of Judith Turner
Čedomir Vasić (Serbian, b. 1948)
Expecting Guests, 2018, Lenticular print, included in the exhibition, Čedomir Vasić: Mutable Images, Shifting Vision
After Jennie A. Brownscombe (American, 1850-19306), Washington Greeting Lafayette at Mount Vernon, 1784, (early 20th century, Kirby Collection of Historical Paintings
Gift of Čedomir Vasić, 2019
William Wegman (American b. 1943)
Lift and Let Lie, 1984, 20×24 inch, Polaroid film, unique image
Gift of Christine Burgin, William Wegman, and Lola Wegman in honor of Michiko Okaya, 2018.
In the Kirby Art Study Center
Joseph Andrews, (American 1806-1873), engraver
After Peter Frederick Rothermel (American), Landing of the Pilgrims, 1620, 1854, See painting on the rack in visible storage
Landing of the Pilgrims, 1869
Engraving and etching
Museum purchase
Brandon Ballengee, (American, b. 1974)
RIP Eskimow Curlew, 2007, Artist-cut, altered print from a J.J. Audubon re-print of Esquimaux Curlew engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell from the “Amsterdam” Edition (1971-73); blue glass bottle of ashes from removed paper with etched text “RIP Eskimo Curlew,”Extinct by the late 20th century. Included in exhibition, Frameworks of Absence: The Absent Birds of America, 2009
Lafayette College Art Collection
Warren B. Mack, class of 1915 (American 1896-1952)
Cabbages, 1938; Mountain Laurel, nd.; Wood engravings
Gift of Warren B. Mack. Class of 1915, 1945
John Sartain (London born 1808–died Philadelphia 1897)
William Penn at the Treaty Elm (after Henry Inman), 1834-35, mezzotint and engraving
Lafayette College Art Collection, Easton, Pa.
Museum purchase
The Kirby Collection of Historical Paintings includes a small study by Henry Inman for William Penn at the Treaty Elm at Independence Hall National Park, Philadelphia.
