Category: Vitrine Project

Curated by Patrica Manos ’12 Selected images from the works of Olin Dows (1904-1981) This exhibit displays samples from a collection of photographs from the Estate of Olin Dows donated to the Bard College Archives .  Included are images of Dows’ murals in Rhinebeck and Hyde Park post offices, decorative wall murals, and WWII paintings completed…

Curated by Luc Sante, May 12-August 4, 2012  On View at the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrines. The populist avant-garde. In Paris in the 1920s and ’30s, highbrow and lowbrow met on the terrain of pulp publishing. Crime tabloids, skin magazines, and the flimsy pamphlets called ‘train-station novels’ were eye-catching and breathlessly modern. Employing…

Exilliteratur Curated by Keziah Goudsmit ’12 April 30-May 10, 2012 After Hitler’s book burning in 1933, many authors fled the country to continue their writing. Most writers found refuge in other European cities like Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Prague and Moscow. After war broke out all over Europe, writers had to continue their journey. They found…

Works on paper by Alfred Kubin, Hugo Steiner-Prag and Sue Coe From the collections of Susan Aberth and Tom Wolf November 2-14, 2011 The Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Library Vitrine Display Cases

Selections from The Marc H. Miller Collection of Theodore Roosevelt Cartoons Charles P. Stevenson Library Lobby Vitrine September 14 – October 12, 2011 Opening Reception Wednesday, September 14, 6:00-7:30 pm Visit the exhibition online at:   http://ephemerapress.com/1912-election-cartoons/index.html For a review of the show please visit: http://hyperallergic.com/36266/us-presidential-elections-a-hundreds-years-ago/

Peggy Bacon: Illustrator Show curated by the students in Tom Wolf’s seminar American Women Artists Stevenson Library, Bard College Faculty Advisor: Tom Wolf Wednesday April 20-May 8 Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20, 5-7 pm Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) was an American painter, printmaker, writer and illustrator.

REVAMPING A. Lincoln The Metamorphosis of Lincolnalia in the 20th Century Curated by Hannah Becker Faculty Sponsor: Tom Wolf An Exhibition of Abraham Lincoln collectibles from the private collection of senior art history major Hannah Becker, on view in the vitrines in Stevenson Library:  March 29-April 7, 2011 Opening reception: March 29th 4:00-5:00 pm

Curated by seniors Daniel Peacock and Rachel Heidenry and  sponsored by the Art History Program the upcoming exhibit on view in the lobby of the Stevenson Library presents Professor Susan Aberth’s diverse collection  of memorial objects from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. With a focus on memorial hairwork jewelry, postmortem photography, and the Victorian…

Nick Gorski ’10 christened the new display cases  (made possible by a generous donation from Barbara S. Grossman ’73, Michael and Willa Gross ’08)  last spring by featuring his collection of science fiction book covers which he examined in his senior project titled The Future to Behold: Science Fiction Cover Art from Paul to Powers.…