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150 items match your search for items in the collection Fine Arts.-
Homestead Inauguration
Identifier: ART021.
Format: Oil on canvas.
Creator: Guido Boer.
Calvin Coolidge taking the oath of office from his father following Harding's death on August 3, 1923 in his father's living room in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. 4 additional people around… -
Classical landscape (Orpheus and Eurydice)
Identifier: ART022.
Format: Oil on linen/masonite. Gilt frame.
An oil painting illustrating the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. A river and several classically dressed figures are in foreground with mountains in distance. Oil on linen / masonite, unsigned and… -
Camperdown Elm, a Sheltering Tree
Identifier: ART023.
Creator: Elliot Offner.
Woodcut of large Camperdown Elm tree
Signed Elliot Offner "For Forbes Library"
Elliot Offner, 1931-2010
Displayed in the Forbes Library Reference Room, Northampton, MA. -
Cricket
Identifier: ART024.
Format: giclee print.
Creator: Eric Carle.
A colorful paper collage illustration of a large cricket, made for The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle.
Displayed in the Children's Department, Forbes Library. Northampton, MA. -
Portrait of the Honorable Henry P. Field
Identifier: ART025.
Format: Oil on canvas.
Creator: Ercole Cartotto.
A portrait painting of Henry P. Field, Library Trustee and President of the of Forbes Library Board of Trustees, 1922-1937. Oil on canvas signed in red l.l., undated .
Judge Henry P. Field… -
Portrait of Arthur Watson
Identifier: ART026.
Format: Oil on canvas.
Creator: Ercole Cartotto.
A portrait painting of Arthur Watson, Trustee of Forbes Library 1893-1922. Oil on canvas signed in red l.r., undated . Hung on the Mezzanine, Forbes Library. Northampton, MA.
Southern by birth,… -
Angel of Hadley, (a.k.a. "The Perils of Our Forefathers")
Identifier: ART027.
Format: Oil on canvas.
Creator: Frederic A. Chapman.
Colonists, Native Americans, regicide: all makeup the legend of the fictitious "Angel of Hadley," which has fascinated and beguiled historians and townspeople for over three hundred years. It… -
Grace Anna Coolidge
Identifier: ART028.
Format: Oil on canvas.
Creator: Howard Chandler Christy.
oil on canvas. First portrait of Mrs. Coolidge as First Lady. She is seated on chair wearing formal white dress with a flower in her lap.
Mrs. Coolidge is portrayed here is a dress she later… -
Portrait of the Honorable Calvin Coolidge
Identifier: ART029.
Format: Oil on canvas.
Creator: Howard Chandler Christy.
oil on canvas portrait of President Calvin Coolidge by Howard CHandler Christy
Official White House Portraits of President Calvin Coolidge And Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge. (Coolidge served as… -
Original Sketch of Post Office Mural entitled, "Work, Religion, and Education"
Identifier: ART030.
Creator: Alfredo de Giorgio Crimi.
A New Deal mural designed for the Northampton Post Office. Central panel depicts a fort partially built, a church, and a stone building with "Forbes Li" over doorway. 2 male figures on… -
Artist's conception of Northampton's Main Street c. 1786
Identifier: ART031.
Format: Pencil and charcoal.
Creator: Maitland D. Gogorza.
Street scene of Northampton c. 1786 with oxen cart and people foreground, church and other buildings mid-distance on hill; Connecticut River and Mt. Holyoke range in background. pencil and charcoal… -
Leonard Baskin, Sculptor
Identifier: ART032.
Creator: Lionel Delevingne.
Black and white photograph of sculptor Leonard Baskin in his studio with unfinished piece behind him
signed l.r.,
dated l.c.
Hung in the Arts and Music stacks, Forbes Library, Northampton,… -
Bill Streeter and Heidi
Identifier: ART033.
Creator: Lionel Delevingne.
A black and white silver print of Bill Streeter with his dog Heidi in his printing studio/office.
black & white photograph signed l.r., dated l.c.
Hung in Forbes Library's Arts &… -
Harold P. McGrath
Identifier: ART034.
Creator: Lionel Delevingne.
A black and white photograph of Harold McGrath with printed material.
Silver print unsigned, dated l.r.
Hung in Forbes Library's Arts & Music stacks in Northampton, MA -
Bust of Calvin Coolidge
Identifier: ART035.
Format: Marble.
Creator: Moses Dykaar.
A marble bust side view of Calvin Coolidge.
Original full-size marble bust sits in Senate wing of the Capitol -
Portrait of Asahel Pomeroy
Identifier: ART036.
Format: Oil.
Creator: Ralph Earle.
An oil painting of Asahel Pomeroy seated on chair, frontal view; finger on map on table.
Displayed in the Forbes Library Reference Room, Northampton, MA.
Ralph Earl
Ralph Earl… -
Airplane view of Mt. Tom, MA
Identifier: ART037.
Creator: Fairchild Aerial Surveys, NY.
A black and white photo of an aerial view of Mount Tom.
unsigned and undated
Hung in the Arts & Music Department, Forbes Library, MA. -
Mississippi Steamboat
Identifier: ART038.
Format: Oil painting.
Creator: George F. Fuller.
Oil painting of 2 Mississippi steamboats on river at night with small raft foreground.
Hung in the Forbes Library Arts and Music Department, Northampton, MA.
The work of nationally known… -
Original pages 6 and 7 from "The Story of May" c. 1993
Identifier: ART039.
Format: watercolor illustration.
Creator: Mordicai Gerstein.
watercolor Illustration in 3 parts: woman with baby May, written text about month of May, mountain silhouette and night sky. Painted border of multicolored swatches.
signed l.l. (p.6), dated l.r.… -
Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts: Looking South from the Poet's Seat
Identifier: ART040.
Creator: P.F. Goist.
A lithograph print of the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts looking south from Poet's Seat in Greenfield, MA. There are 2 small islands in the river and Mt. Holyoke range in the…