Items

• 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…

• 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.