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• 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…

• 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…