Browse Collection

• Portrait of Martha Hunt Henshaw (1755-1842)

  
  Identifier: ART041.
  Format: Oil.
  Creator: Chester Harding.
  

  An oil painting of a portrait of Martha Hunt Henshaw wearing lace cap and black dress with lace at neck.
  
  oil unsigned and undated
  
  Chester Harding
  
  Prominent portrait painted Chester…

• Portrait of Issac Chapman Bates (1780-1845)

  
  Identifier: ART042.
  Format: Oil on wood panel.
  Creator: Chester Harding.
  

  An oil painting on wood of Issac Chapman Bates on wood
  
  oil on wood panel unsigned and undated
  
  Isaac C. Bates (1779-1845) was a prominent attorney who settled in Northampton in 1805. Within…

• Portrait of Judge Samuel Henshaw (1744-1809)

  
  Identifier: ART043.
  Format: Oil.
  Creator: Chester Harding.
  

  An oil painting of Judge Samuel Henshaw (1744-1809)
  oil unsigned and undated
  
  This portrait is a Harding oil portrait (27" x 22 1/2") of Martha Bates' father, Judge Samuel Henshaw…

• Portrait of Martha Henshaw Bates (1783-1874)

  
  Identifier: ART044.
  Format: Oil on wood panel.
  Creator: Chester Harding.
  

  An oil painting on wood of Martha Henshaw Bates wearing a black dress with open lace neckline and small white cap.
  oil on wood panel unsigned and undated
  
  Senator Bates' wife, Martha…

• Rye Field on Lawrence Plain

  
  Identifier: ART045.
  Format: Oil.
  Creator: Bessie Bell Hawkes.
  

  An oil painting of stacks of harvested rye in field (Lawrence Plain) with mountain range in background.
  oil painting l.r. signed B B, probably painted between 1895 and 1899
  
  Bessie Bell…

• Bust of George Washington

  
  Identifier: ART046.
  Format: Marble.
  Creator: (attributed to) Jean Antoine Houdon, 1741-1828.
  

  Marble bust of George Washington with loose garment around his neck. Inscribed "Eudon, Sculpt. 1800"
  
  In 1943, also, Miss Edith Allen Clark presented Forbes Library with a marble bust…

• Water Spirits at Look Park

  
  Identifier: ART047.
  Format: Oil.
  Creator: Barbara Johnson.
  

  An oil painting of young boy standing in Mill River in Look Park, Northampton, MA.; splash of thrown rock.
  oil painting unsigned and undated

• Springtime-Meadow and Mt. Holyoke

  
  Identifier: ART048.
  Format: Oil.
  Creator: Elbridge Kingsley.
  

  oil painting of meadow with Mt. Holyoke range in background
  signed and dated l.r.?
  
  Displayed in the Forbes Library Reference Room, Northampton, MA.

• 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…