Leonardo da Vinci was born today in Vinci, Florence in 1452. The Libraries has books throughout its many locations featuring this unique artist and inventor's interests in art, science, architecture more »
Category: Art and Design
Thomas Jefferson was born today in Shadwell, Virginia in 1743. The Libraries has a variety of interesting titles about this former governor of Virginia, minister of France, Secretary of State, more »
For the last week in March, the Libraries hosted spring intern Diane Kaczor. Kaczor is a student in the graduate program of Library and Information Science at the University of more »
recto: Thomas Sully(born Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, 1783; died Philadelphia, PA,1872) rear: Carte-de-visite photographer: H.G. DeBurlo, Philadelphia, PA During his lifetime, Thomas Sully was one of the most prominent portrait painters more »
Clair, Jean, ed. The 1930s: The Making of “The New Man”. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2008. N6493 1930 .N38 2008 Catalog of an exhibition held at the National Gallery more »
The Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library (AA/PG) grew out of the Smithsonian’s National Museum, later known as the “National Gallery of Art”. In 1937 the Andrew Mellon more »
On Saturday, February 28, 2009, the Cooper-Hewitt Library celebrated the release of the new online Caldwell database to feature over 35,000 photographs and drawings from the Caldwell & Company archive more »