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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"… -
Desk of President Calvin Coolidge
Identifier: Coolidge Memorial Room.
The oak roll-top desk, along with a matching chair, was presented to the Forbes Library by Mrs. Grace Coolidge, widow of the President, following his death in 1933. Coolidge bought the two pieces in… -
Desk of Major Joseph Hawley
Joseph Hawley (1723-1788) was the third generation of the Hawley family to reside in Northampton, the son of the second Joseph Hawley and the maternal grandson of Rev. Solomon Stoddard. He was also… -
Flemish Carved Wooden Table
Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Williston of Northampton maintained an active interest in the Library's well-being for many years, presenting frequent gifts of books, wall maps, a collection of French… -
Seth Thomas Clock
Format: 19th century, cherry mahogany.
Behind the Circulation Desk of the Art and Music Department, the old Seth Thomas clock is mounted on the wall, as it has been since anyone can remember. Seth Thomas (1816-1888), as his father before…