PULTENEY STREET SURVEY - SPRING 2017

“Elbow Lake” (left) and “Violent Turn” (1977), mixed media prints by James Rosenquist, were given to the Colleges by Mr. and Mrs. William E. Welsh Jr. P’84. The Collections, which include works by Mary Cassatt, Norman Rockwell, Toshi Yoshida and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, have benefited greatly from the support of individuals like Dr. George N. Abraham '59, Clarence "Dave" Davis Jr. '48, Theodore C. '50 and Melva Max '50, P'78, P'80, Trustee Chair Emeritus L. Thomas Melly '52, L.H.D. '02, Robert and Marion de Mauriac North '32, L.H.D. ’78, Edward T. Pollack '55 and Richard A. Scudamore '55.
Collections of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
The Collections of Hobart and William Smith Colleges contain many original works of art and are particularly strong in works on paper from the 19th through the 21st centuries.
Many works are periodically displayed throughout campus, including at The Davis Gallery, The Thomas Poole Family Admissions Center, the Melly Academic Center, Rosensweig Learning Commons and the Gearan Center for the Performing Arts, before returning to the Collections for preservation.
Students actively participate in all aspects of collection management, learning museum standards of art handling and registration, assisting with the installation of exhibitions and campus displays, as well as conducting research for curatorial purposes and educational programs.
“Soon after Mark started in
1999, he invited me to campus
to have lunch. He knew I
collected art and wanted my
opinion on the holdings of the
Colleges. We sat in the old café
at Scandling Campus Center.
Across from our table was the
condiment station – ketchup,
napkins, trash bins. Above it was
a Rosenquist. Mark asked me,
“Do you think that Rosenquist
should be hanging above
the mustard?” That question
started my journey to get many
of the pieces in the collection
archivally framed and conserved
so they would be appreciated
by others for generations. Over
the past 18 years, we’ve worked
with Visual Arts Curator Kathryn
Vaughn P'08 and several alums
to assess the Collections,
restore unframed lithographs
and prints, and acquire several
original pieces of art. Some of
the works that the Colleges
own are extraordinary. Mark has
made sure that these pieces
will survive and be viewed. In
his quiet way, he pulled the arts
forward – both the visual arts
and the performing arts through
the Gearan Center. Now, that
Rosenquist definitely does not
hang over the mustard.”
—Dr. George N. Abraham ’59,
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, and
Microbiology and Immunology at the
University of Rochester
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