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The Library | The Card Catalog | Works of Art
WORKS OF ART IN THE LIBRARY
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Arthur Ross Reading Room: Candelabrum and portrait busts
(in order, west to east, left to right, from the entrance)
Candelabrum
Artist: Gorham Phillips Stevens after a bronze candelabrum in the cathedral of Pistoia
Fabricated by the Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, 1914. |
Jesse Benedict Carter (1872-1917)
Artist: Albin Polasek (signed and dated 1913)
Gift of Mrs. Carter, 1917. |
William A. Boring (1859-1937)
Artist: ? |
Francis Davis Millet (1846-1912)
Artist: Albin Polasek? (dated 1912)
(Although Annual Report 1920-21 says by Augustus Saint-Gaudens)
Gift of George Armour
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Michael Rapuano (1904-1975)
Artist: Joseph Kiselewski FAAR'29
Gift of Gilmore G. Clarke.
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Charles Densmore Curtis (1875-1925)
Artist: Berthold Nebel, FAAR'17
Inscription on reverse: Crus Mateis, Roma.
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Mahlon R. Schnacke (1896-1939)
Artist: Bruce Moore (signed and dated 1938) |
Frederic Crowninshield (1845-1918)
Artist: Albin Polasek (signed; 1911?)
(Ref.: AR 1917-18, p. 35.) |
Samuel Breck Parkman Trowbridge (1862-1925)
Artist: Thomas H. Jones FAAR'22
Gift of Mrs. Trowbridge.
(Ref.: AR 1926-27) |
Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909)
Artist: Albin Polasek
Gift of William R. Mead, 1920.
(Ref.: AR 1920, p. 40.) |
Lily Ross Taylor (1886-1969)
Artist: Allen Harris FAAR'61 (signed and dated 1970) |
Bust of Tatiana Warsher (1880-1960)
Artist: Allen Harris (signed and dated 1960) |
Landing to the Frank Brown Study Room:
Portrait of Frank Brown (1908-1988)
Artist: Jack L. Bailey FAAR'72 |
Barbara Goldsmith Rare Book Room:
Bust of Barbara Goldsmith, AAR Trustee 1994-present
Artist: Lewis Iselin, AAR Trustee 1966-73
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Cypro-Archaic amphora
(bi-chrome IV ware, 7th c. B.C., from Larnaca)
Ref.: Armour-Norton (1904); MAAR X (1932): 109. |
Head of an old man from a grave relief (Augustan, said to be from Rome, white marble)
Gift of Richard Norton
Ref.: V. Kockel, Porträtreliefs stadtrömischer Grabbauten (1993): 184, no. LII, and pl. 97a, 98d. |
Portrait head of Hermarchus (or Metrodorus?): Roman copy of Greek original of c. 270 B.C.
Gift of Richard Norton
Ref.: G. Richter, Portraits of the Greeks (1965), v. 2, p. 204, n. 7, figs. 1288-90. |
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By the Entrance to the Buonanno Folio Reading Room:
Funerary Column with Inscription
From Larnaka, Cyprus
Bought by Armour as a gift to the American School of Classical Studies in 1904.
Ref.: Perdrizet, Paul "Notes sur Chypre", In: Bulletin de correspondance hellénique. Volume 20, 1896. pp. 344 n. 14.
Funerary inscription |
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