Items

• Landscape (2)

  
  Identifier: ART049.
  Format: Oil.
  Creator: Elbridge Kingsley.
  

  An oil painting of a landscape with green trees and small pond in foreground.
  oil painting unsigned and undated

• Summer Evening-Hadley Street

  
  Identifier: ART050.
  Format: Oil.
  Creator: Elbridge Kingsley.
  

  An oil painting of landscape with rising moon, Mt. Holyoke range in background.
  Oil painting signed and dated l.r.
  Hung in the Forbes Library Reading Room, Northampton, MA.

• Landscape (1)

  
  Identifier: ART051.
  Format: Oil.
  Creator: Elbridge Kingsley.
  

  An oil painting of landscape with fall colored trees and pond foreground
  oil painting unsigned and undated

• Winter Sunset- Meadow and Mt. Tom

  
  Identifier: ART052.
  Format: Oil.
  Creator: Elbridge Kingsley.
  

  An oil painting of winter landscape of meadow with Mt. Tom range in background
  oil painting signed l.r. and dated 1899

• Northampton, MA

  
  Identifier: ART053.
  Format: Lithographs.
  Creator: H. Knecht.
  

  A lithograph of Northampton, MA. with 4 views: central image is Northampton with Connecticut River and Mt. Holyoke range in background; 3 separate images at top: Round Hill Hotel Water Cure,…

• Simeon Butler

  
  Identifier: ART054.
  Format: Portrait paintings.
  Creator: La Fossy.
  

  oil painting of Simeon Butler, signed and dated on back of canvas: La Fossy, pinxit [painted by] A.D. 1837
  
  Hung in the Reading Room of Forbes Library, Northampton, MA.
  
  Forbes Library owns…

• Peony Study No. 1

  
  Identifier: ART055.
  Format: watercolor.
  Creator: Turi MacCombie.
  

  A water color painting of one Peony flower, pale pink color
  Watercolor signed and dated l.r.
  Hung in the Forbes Library Art and Music Dept., Northampton, MA.

• Evening in Dordrecht Harbor

  
  Identifier: ART056.
  Format: Oil.
  Creator: George Herbert McCord.
  

  Oil painting of boats in harbor at sunset; church tower of town in background
  oil painting signed and dated l.l.
  
  George Herbert McCord
  
  American landscape painter George H. McCord was born…

• Portrait of Major Simeon Theus

  
  Identifier: ART057.
  Format: Oil.
  Creator: Samuel Finley Breeze Morse.
  

  Portrait of Major Simeon Theus
  oil painting unsigned and undated
  
  Samuel Finley Breeze Morse
  
  Samuel F.B. Morse (1791-1872), eminent 19th century painter, sculptor, and inventor was born in…

• Rembrandt Van Rijn

  
  Identifier: ART058.
  Format: print of woodcut.
  Creator: Barry Moser.
  

  Portrait of Rembrandt Van Rijn
  woodcut signed and dated l.r.

• "Looking Glass, a play about Lewis Carroll..."

  
  Identifier: ART059.
  Format: poster.
  Creator: Barry Moser.
  

  This theatrical poster for the play "Looking Glass: a play about Lewis Carroll" features a woodcut of a mounted knight.
  
  poster (woodcut)
  signed l.c.,
  undated

• The Reverie of Alice's Sister

  
  Identifier: ART060.
  Format: woodcut.
  Creator: Barry Moser.
  

  A woodcut image of a young girl
  
  Barry Moser
  
  Hatfield artist, Barry Moser (1940- ), is acclaimed as one of the foremost wood engravers in the United States. His Pennyroyal Press and Hampshire…

• Goodspeeds Books and Prints

  
  Identifier: ART061.
  Creator: Waldo Murray.
  

  etching of 4-story building with gable roof named Goodspeeds Books and Prints
  etching signed l.r., undated

• Mendenhall Porcupine

  
  Identifier: ART062.
  Format: Woodcut, A.P., 2nd state.
  Creator: Elliot Offner.
  

  A woodcut print of porcupine, green color.
  woodcut, A.P. 2nd state, signed and dated l.c.

• Double whale

  
  Identifier: ART063.
  Format: Bronze sculpture.
  Creator: Elliot Offner.
  

  A bronze sculpture of two whales facing downward intertwined.
  bronze sculpture

• Trees on Hampstead Heath

  
  Identifier: ART064.
  Format: woodcut.
  Creator: Elliot Offner.
  

  Five-color woodcut landscape of heath with trees, five-color woodcut, 12 1/2" x 19 5/8"
  
  Hung in the Art and Music Stack at Forbes Library in Northampton,MA
  
  Elliot Offner
  Smith…

• Cambridge Pheasant

  
  Identifier: ART065.
  Format: Bronze sculpture.
  Creator: Elliot Offner.
  

  Bronze sculpture of a pheasant standing with head pointed down
  bronze sculpture

• Hay-Scale Elms

  
  Identifier: ART066.
  Format: Oil painting.
  Creator: (attributed to) Granville Perkins.
  

  oil painting of 2 large Hay-Scale Elm trees in central area with buildings and dirt roads surrounding them
  oil painting unsigned and undated Believed to have been done in the early…

• Bust of Charles Edward Forbes

  
  Identifier: ART067.
  Format: Plaster.
  Creator: Bela Lyon Pratt.
  

  plaster sculpture of Charles Edward Forbes, benefactor of Forbes Library.
  signature and date inscribed on left.
  Charles Forbes, a Northampton lawyer and judge, died in 1881 and left the majority…

• Bust of Charles Edward Forbes

  
  Identifier: ART068.
  Format: Bronze sculpture.
  Creator: Bela Lyon Pratt.
  

  A bronze bust of Charles Edward Forbes, benefactor of Forbes Library
  
  bronze sculpture signature and date inscribed on left side
  
  Displayed in the Forbes Library lobby/Circulation Department,…