Items

• Portrait of Charles C. Burleigh

  
  Identifier: ART131.
  Format: oil painting on canvas.
  Creator: Burleigh, Charles Jr., 1848-1882.
  

  Oil painting, formal portrait of an elderly man with a long white beard and ringlets.
  
  Gift of the Unitarian Society of Northampton and Florence, 2022

• Sojourner Truth

  
  Identifier: ART132.
  Format: Bronze statuette.
  Creator: Stone, Gregory, 1947-2016.
  

  bronze statuette representing Sojourner Truth.

• Precarious

  
  Identifier: ART134.
  Format: giclée print.
  Creator: Holmes, Ekua, b. 1955.
  

  Limited edition giclée print of an original illustration for Dream Street by Tricia Elam Walker, illustrated by Ekua Holmes.
  
  A boy sits reading with a stack of books beside him.
  
  Original…

• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon

  
  Identifier: ART135.
  Creator: Lin, Grace, b. 1974 .
  

  Archival pigment print of an original illustration for Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin.
  
  A red dragon flies across the night sky with full moon, clouds, and mountain.
  
  Purchased…

• Bringing in the New Year - Pop!

  
  Identifier: ART136.
  Creator: Lin, Grace, b. 1974.
  

  Original illustration for children's book Bringing In the New Year by Grace Lin.
  
  A woman and three children share a meal while a celebratory fireworks display takes place outside the…

• "I'll race you up that hill"

  
  Identifier: ART137.
  Format: graphite on paper, illustration.
  Creator: Curato, Mike, b. 1981.
  

  Original illustration for children's book Little Elliot Fall Friends by Mike Curato.
  A young elephant (Little Elliot) and his friend Mouse run up a path in a landscape of gently rolling hills.…

• The Transition

  
  Identifier: ART138.
  Format: Spray paint on canvas
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  Creator: Murray, Ryan, b. 1992.
  

  painting of a teenager standing in front of a building facade that suggests Northampton High School and other local landmarks, with both figurative and abstract elements.
  
  Spray paint on…

• Progressions 1

  
  Identifier: ART139.
  Format: Oil on canvas.
  Creator: Green, Priya Nadkarni, b. 1986.
  

  Oil painting of flowers in a vase, with both figurative and abstract elements.
  
  Purchased by the Trustees with BIPOC Art Committee funds, 2022

• I’ll Feel Better Again
  

  
  Identifier: ART140.
  Format: Oil painting on canvas.
  Creator: Adastra, Jose, b. 1991.
  

  brightly-colored impressionistic landscape painting with a grassy field and plants, and textured brushwork.
  
  Gift of the artist, 2022

• Hadley tobacco workers

  
  Identifier: ART141.
  Format: 10" h x 8" w.
  Creator: Haver, Nancy, b. 1955.
  

  A group of young men cultivating shade-grown tobacco plants on a farm in Hadley, Massachusetts.
  
  Artist's Proof, Signed lower right
  
  Gift of Martha McCormick, 2022

• New England Elms

  
  Identifier: ART142.
  Creator: Kingsley, Elbridge, 1842 - 1918.
  

  Gift of R. Bruce Carroll, 2017

• Fractured Flight

  
  Identifier: ART145.
  Creator: Melting Tallow, Anthony, b. 1968.
  

  digital painting, archival ink print on silk canvas
  depicting a bird's wing outstretched
  
  Purchased by the Trustees with BIPOC Art Committee funds, 2022

• Endian

  
  Identifier: ART146.
  Creator: Melting Tallow, Anthony, b. 1968.
  

  digital painting, archival ink print on silk canvas
  abstract image
  
  Purchased by the Trustees with BIPOC Art Committee funds, 2022

• All the light begins and is borrowed

  
  Identifier: ART147.
  Format: Graphite, acrylic, and ink on paper.
  Creator: Callender, Alex, b. 1980.
  

  Drawing
  
  A figure standing in a small, spikey garden, their body full of white lines that suggest shooting stars
  
  signed on verso
  
  Purchased by the Trustees with BIPOC Art Committee funds,…

• UMass Clouds

  
  Identifier: ART148.
  Format: Photographic print.
  Creator: Lester, Julius, 1939-2018
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  Image captured on film from the artist's office window at UMass Amherst, and digitally printed
  
  Signed
  
  
  Purchased by the Trustees with BIPOC Art Committee funds, 2022

• Ancestors

  
  Identifier: ART149.
  Format: Photographic print.
  Creator: Lester, Julius, 1939-2018
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  A digital collage of film photographs the artist made of Black women across the south in 1966-67.
  
  Signed
  
  
  Purchased by the Trustees with BIPOC Art Committee funds, 2022

• Dragonfly

  
  Identifier: ART155.
  Format: giclee print.
  Creator: Carle, Eric, 1929-2021.
  

  A giclee print of a colorful paper collage illustration of a dragonfly, made for The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle.
  
  Signed artist's proof
  Gift, 2013
  
  Displayed in the…

• Northampton's Lights

  
  Identifier: ART196.
  Creator: Maggie Hodges.
  

  Oil painting on panel.
  Streetscape of Northampton at night, Bridge Street at the intersection of Hawley Street and Market Street. The railroad overpass with art installation "Water Music"…

• Two Peas in a Pod

  
  Identifier: BRA18.
  Format: Mixed media sculpture.
  Creator: Carol Gobin.
  

  misc. green material made to look like sweet peas, faux purple sweet pea flowers, misc. framework

• Underwire's Dream #2

  
  Identifier: BRA20.
  Format: Wire Sculpture.
  Creator: Barbara Cymrot.
  

  Bra constructed with copper wire framework with various colored glass and plastic beads