Artwork Collection
Over the years, SCUA has become home to both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art pertaining to three of its key thematic collecting areas: the University of Massachusetts Amherst, New England, and social change.
The Artwork Collection is comprised of miscellaneous works visual art, realia, and decorative arts, relating primarily to figures in UMass or to leftist or proletarian artists. Among the artists represented are Michael Russo, Cook Glassgold, Lydia Gibson Minor, Laura Wheeler Waring, Daniel Chester French, and Laurence Bradshaw. For reference purposes, we have cross-listed paintings belonging to other SCUA collections.
Background
Over the years, SCUA has become home to both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art pertaining to three of its key thematic collecting areas: the University of Massachusetts Amherst, New England, and social change. A select number of these works are placed on rotating display within the department.
Contents of Collection
The Artwork Collection is comprised of miscellaneous works visual art, realia, and decorative arts, relating primarily to figures in UMass or to leftist or proletarian artists. Among the artists represented are Michael Russo, Cook Glassgold, Lydia Gibson Minor, Laura Wheeler Waring, Daniel Chester French, and Laurence Bradshaw. For reference purposes, we have cross-listed paintings belonging to other SCUA collections.
The collection is currently being inventoried and this finding aid will be revised periodically until the project is complete.
Administrative information
Access
The collection is open for research.
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Provenance
Acquired variously.
Processing Information
Processed by Dexter Haven, July 2014.
Digitized content
Selected images have been scanned and may be viewed online through SCUA’s digital repository, Credo.
Related Material
SCUA houses many other collections that contain notable materials for the graphic or decorative arts, including dozens of photographic collections and the following:
- Bonnie Acker Collection (MS 582)
- Artists-Research-Technology, Inc., Collection (MS 832)
- Irwin Hasen Collection (MS 744)
- Leonard D. Hollister Collection (MS 688)
- Paul S. Kahn Papers (MS 786)
- Susan Kleckner Papers (MS 725)
- Doug Kraner Papes (MS 942)
- Michael Lenson Collection (MS 745)
- Ken and Sherri Nahan Collection (MS 848)
- Louis F. Shattuck Papers (MS 563)
- Frank A. Waugh Papers (FS 088)
Related Material
Arts and literature
Copyright and Use (More information)
Cite as: Artwork Collection (MS 597). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.