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150 items match your search for items in the collection Fine Arts.-
Porcupine
Identifier: ART001.
Format: Woodcut.
Creator: Leonard Baskin.
A wood engraving of a porcupine in profile.
Displayed in the Arts and Music Dept., Forbes Library. Northampton, Mass.
The fact that our area of Western Massachusetts hosts the most significant… -
Bay Path Road
Identifier: ART002.
Format: Oil.
Creator: unknown.
An oil painting of a landscape with dirt road in foreground, Mt. Holyoke Range in background, 2 standing figures in foreground..
Displayed in the Hampshire Room, Forbes Library. Northampton, Mass.… -
Old Wooden Bridge on South Street
Identifier: ART003.
Format: Oil.
Creator: unknown.
An oil painting of a wooden, covered bridge over the Mill River, Northampton, MA. In the backdrop, are trees and a distant house. :South Street Bridge" written on l.l.
Painting is… -
Portrait of Caleb Strong
Identifier: ART004.
Format: Photograph in bas-relief.
Creator: unknown.
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Portrait of Frederic A. Macomber
Identifier: ART005.
Format: Oil.
Creator: unknown.
An oil painting of Frederic A. Macomber, Treasurer, Trustees of Forbes Library, 1894-1920.
Displayed on the back stairs in Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass.
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Cook's Dam at Leeds
Identifier: ART006.
Format: Oil.
Creator: unknown.
An oil painting of Cook's Dam and bridge over Mill River in Leeds with two figures in foreground at base of dam. In background are trees with autumn colored leaves.
Displayed in the Forbes… -
Portrait of Calvin Coolidge
Identifier: ART007.
Format: Oil.
Creator: unknown.
An oil painting of former President Calvin Coolidge, a resident of Northampton. Three-quarter seated portrait holding a book. Displayed in the Coolidge Room, Forbes Library. Northampton, Mass.
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Landscape, Plymouth, Vermont (hills looking westward from Coolidge homestead)
Identifier: ART008.
Format: Oil painting.
landscape oil painting of Plymouth, Vermont, hills in background, farmhouse in mid-distance.
Hung in the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA. -
Calvin Coolidge as Chief Wamblee-Tokaha of the tribe of Sioux Indians
Identifier: ART009.
Format: oil painting.
Creator: Frank Clifford Ashford.
An oil painting of former President Calvin Coolidge in Indian headdress as Wamblee-Tokah. The headdress and name was given to Coolidge by Sioux leaders Chief Chauncey Yellow Robe and Rosebud Yellow… -
Mrs. Grace Coolidge
Identifier: ART010.
Format: Oil.
Creator: Frank Clifford Ashford.
An oil painting in profile of Mrs. Grace Coolidge, the wife of President Calvin Coolidge. Displayed in the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA. -
White-headed Pigeon
Identifier: ART011.
Format: Chromolith.
Creator: John James Audubon.
A chromolithograph of 2 kissing white-headed pigeons. Hung in the Director's Office, Forbes Library. Northampton, Mass. -
Blue Crane, or, Heron
Identifier: ART012.
Format: Chromolith.
Creator: John James Audubon.
A chromolithograph of a Blue Crane with Heron in the background, painted in a wetlands habitat setting. Hung in the Director's Office, Forbes Library. Northampton, MA. -
Glossy Ibis; Ibis Falcinellus, Male Adult
Identifier: ART013.
Format: Chromolith.
Creator: John James Audubon.
A chromolithograph of a Glossy Ibis, drinking from water's edge.. A village is in the background..
"Drawn from Life by J.J Audubon, F, R, S." No. 13-3, Plate 358. -
Northampton c.1837
Identifier: ART014.
Format: Color steel engraving.
Creator: William H. Bartlett.
Printed image of color steel engraving of Main St. Northampton c.1837 with carriages in street and people on porch in foreground; 2 churches + other buildings.
unsigned and undated; printed R.… -
The Anatomist
Identifier: ART015.
Format: Woodcut.
Creator: Leonard Baskin.
A wood engraving, featuring a male subject holding a smaller skeleton.
Woodcut, A.P. signed l.r., undated.
Hung in the Forbes Library Arts & Music stacks, Northampton, MA. -
Mantegna at Eremitani
Identifier: ART016.
Format: Woodcut.
Creator: Leonard Baskin.
woodcut in profile of man's head, A.P. signed l.r., undated
Displayed in the Arts & Music stacks at Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass. -
Portrait of Charles Ammi Cutter
Identifier: ART017.
Format: Oil.
Creator: William Henry Warren Bicknell.
An oil painting of Charles Ammi Cutter, well known Library Systemizer and First Librarian of Forbes Library, 1894-1903. Signed and dated u.r.? 350.00. Displayed in the Forbes Library Reference Room,… -
The Pool
Identifier: ART018.
Creator: J. Carleton Bicknell.
A landscape photograph showing small pool in river in foreground with Mountain House on Mt. Holyoke in the distance
From a hand-colored silver print.
Signed l.r., undated.
Hung in the… -
"Pike", a poem by Ted Hughes
Identifier: ART019.
Format: Woodcut.
Creator: Robert Birmelin.
A wood engraving showing a Pike fish and its shadow on a green backdrop. The image is printed with a poem by Ted Hughes.
Hung in the Director's Office, Forbes Library. Northampton, MA. -
Landscape and cattle
Identifier: ART020.
Format: Oil on canvas.
Creator: Henry Collins Bispham.
An oil painting of cattle, with a lake, trees and mountains in the backdrop. Painted on canvas. Hung in the reading room, Forbes Library. Northampton, MA.
Henry Collins…