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The Hunter College Art Galleries Collection1975-2012Finding AidPaths of Abstraction: Painting in New York 1944 - 1981Selections from the Ciba Art CollectionArchives and Special Collecti ons

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GENERAL INFORMATIONAccession Number:94-07Size:0.9044 cu. ft.Provenance:Hunter College GalleriesRestrictions:None.Location:Range 3 Section 8 Shelf 48Archivist:Prof. Julio L. Hernandez-DelgadoAssistant:Ms. Christina Melendez-LawrenceMs. Dane GuerreroDate:October, 1994Revised:December, 2012

HISTORICAL NOTEThe original art gallery at Hunter College was established in1975 and was located in Thomas HunterHall Room 106. The Hunter Arts Gallery showcased the works of faculty, undergraduate andgraduate students, and the works of outstanding artists like Joseph Alabresse, Kampo Harada, andMichael Strauss among others. In 1978, the Hunter Arts Gallery was apparently reconstituted as theHunter Gallery. The paucity of documents fails to reveal if the gallery remained in Thomas HunterHall or was moved to a different location. The Hunter Gallery continued to showcase the creativeworks of talented individuals. Honorable mention include the drawings by Tony Smith, RaymondSaunders, Jill Moser; paintings by Susan Barrett, Johannes Geccelli, Claire Lofrese, Evelyn Lopez deGuzman, Jill Nathanson, Dane R. Goodman, Angel Rodriguez Diaz, Michael Strauss, and RichardWood; photographs by Karen Bell and Luke Holland; sculpture by Sheila Ross; and numerousothers.In 1984 the Hunter Gallery was renamed the Hunter College Art Gallery and was relocated to thelobby of the recently inaugurated west tower of Hunter College. On March 8, 1987, the HunterCollege Art Gallery was rededicated as The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery. In addition tohosting the annual Hunter College BFA exhibition, the gallery has also showcased the works ofoutstanding artists like Julius Goldstein, Roy Decarava, Max Beerbohm, Vincent Campanella,Stephane Mallarme, John Eberson, Ralph Humphrey, Fritz Bultman, William E. Starkweather, ClaireBloom, and Vincent Longo.Little is known about the gallery in the North Building of Hunter College, but we do know thatexhibits were held there for the years 1991-1995. Hunter College began its MFA program in the Fallof 1981. MFA student projects were annually exhibited in Thomas Hunter Hall through the Springof 1991. But commencing in the Fall of 1991 all MFA student projects were showcased at TheGallery at Hunter College (a.k.a. the Art Gallery and the Voorhees Gallery) which was reconstitutedas the Hunter College/ Times Square Gallery in 1995. This gallery focuses on exhibiting the worksof MFA students, faculty works, New York Area MFA students, and the works of renowned artistslike Robert Huot, Raymond Saunders, and Antoni Milkowski.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTEThe Hunter College Gallery Collection consists of flyers, photographs, postcards, posters, andprograms of exhibitions that were showcased at Hunter College from 1975 - 2012. The exhibitionswere well publicized and drew aficionados from New York City and from the Tri-State area.Each of the college galleries are identified with their corresponding documents arrangedalphabetically by the artist’s surname, exhibition, and/or function. The bulk of the collectionconsists of flyers and postcards that visually capture the essence of each exhibition.One obvious shortcoming of the collection is the absence of biographical information andphotographs for most of the participating artists. This would have greatly enhanced the scope andvariety of the exhibitions and/or functions that were held at Hunter College since 1975.Researchers who crave for information about artistic exhibitions in college galleries will find thiscollection to be appealing, informative, and historic for the periods documented.

CONTAINER LISTHUNTER ARTS GALLERYBox1Folder1ContentsAnnouncements and Flyers, 1975 - 1978The Anthropology of ArtBatiksCuban PostersFiber ArtDisplay of Student DrawingsHunter Art FacultyLiberty Long CutKampo HaradaOpen Undergraduate ExhibitionParticipatory Sound EnvironmentPoetry ReadingPossibility of Colonizing SpaceStudent FilmsUndergraduate Art Department ExhibitViewpoints Ten Photographers23Posters and Programs, 1975 - 19777 Black ArtistsSpring 1975Fall 1975Spring 1976Fall 1976Small World Works of ChildrenSpring 1977News & Notes New Year Issue, 1997Flyers and PostersThe Architectural Model and Renderings for the New Hunter CollegeBFA Works by Bachelor of Fine Arts CandidatesBread & PuppetCalligraphy by Kampo HaradaCeramics & Wall Hangings

HUNTER ARTS GALLERYBox1Folder3ContentsFlyers and PostersChinese CalligraphyCity Sounds Environmental Sound CompositionsContinuous Showing of Student FilmsDance Therapy Multimedia PresentationEnvironmental ExperienceExhibitFiber Structures Clay FormsGraduate Painting ShowHaitian Art Exhibit Paintings & SculpturesNew Notes & Notations Signs, Images, SymbolsPa intings by Evelyn Lopez deGuzmanPhotography Exhibition of Student ColorSculptural Maquettes by Joseph AlabresseSigns, Images, SymbolsSix 1 - Man ShowsMichael Strauss PaintingsStudent GraphicsStudent Group ShowsStudent WorksStrings and No Strings Leonard Suib’s Puppets and Puppets throughthe AgesTheatre DesignWalk Through EnvironmentXMAS Bazaar

HUNTER ARTS GALLERYBox1FolderContents4Announcements and Flyers, 1978 - 1980, 1982 - 1983Color Sensation MovementJohannes Geccelli PaintingsThe Nature of Baskets Form and Function of North AmericanIndian BasketsPueblo Pottery Tradition & Change in the SouthwestPuerto Rican Posters from the Collection of Rosita MaldonadoStudent Christmas Show and Sale56Postcards, 1979 - 1981Susan Barrett & Jill Nathanson PaintingsKaren Bell-Photographs & Jackie Shatz-SculptureGuy De Cointet: The Set From Tell MeSallie Douglas: I Wish I Knew, PaintingsDane R. Goodman & Marie Schoeff PaintingsClaire Lofrese’s PaintingsJill Moser DrawingsAngel Rodriguez DiazSheila Ross SculptureRaymond Saunders Collage Drawings & WatercolorsSite Specific Works Realized and ProposedMorris TenenbaumRichard Wood PaintingsJane Zingale Color XerographyAnnouncements and Flyers, 1979 - 1981Art and Ecological IssuesFramesFrom The 16th FloorGraduate InvitationalIndians, Missionaries and the Promised Land Photographs fromParaguay by Luke HollandVideo Tapes and DrawingsWorking Drawings

HUNTER ARTS GALLERYBoxFolderContents17Working Papers Poetry Reading by Professor Eve Leoff’sPoetry Workshop - Publication8Photographs, 1987Installation View 1Installation View 2HUNTER COLLEGE ART GALLERY19Postcards, Programs and Press Releases, 1984 - 1987Artists at Hunter: Art M.A. AlumniBeyond Formalism Three Sculptors of the 60’sColor Documents A Presentational TheoryFSA The Illiterate Eye Photographs from the Farm SecurityAdministrationImaginary Cities European Views from the Collection of the ArtCommissionNew Faculty II Works by New Members of the Hunter College ArtDepartmentPolitical GeometriesRace and Repre-sentation Art/Film/VideoTony Smith DrawingsThe Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photos of Roy DeCaravaFrancesca Woodman: Photographic WorkA Tribute to Edna Wells Luetz Member of the Department1920 to 1963and Chair from 1928 to 1948Posters, 1986Art from Shanghai University

THOMAS HUNTER GALLERYBox1Folder10ContentsPostcards, 1990 - 1991, 2004Discoveries: Undergraduate Sculpture at HunterLisa Moschitta: MFA Thesis ExhibitionMartha Morales: MFA Thesis ExhibitionMichael Tostanoski: MFA Thesis ExhibitionSeven Worlds Veracruz CeramicsTHE BERTHA AND KARL LEUBSDORF ART GALLERY111Postcards, Posters, and Programs, 1987- 2012ABSHARP Hunter College BFA ExhibitionAbu Ghraib / Abuse of PowerAfro-American Artists in Paris: 1919 - 1939AmericanaArtists at Hunter PhotographersBFA Degree ShowBFA Fall 1999 Hunter CollegeThe BFA Show Hunter CollegeClaire Bloom: Three Dramatic Readings Jane EyreColor Systems in Art & ScienceThe Concrete VoiceConfabulationsContemporary Icons from the Sublime.FetishisticCutters by Mary BirminghamDead-Fit BeautyDedication of the Life’s Members PlaqueLobby of the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art GalleryA Debate on Abstraction:Anti-SimulationPhotography and AbstractionSystems and AbstractionDedication of the Life Member’s PlaqueDeep Field PaintingDistinctions: Approaches to DrawingThe Early Show: Video from 1969 -1979The Edge is Nigh Hunter College BFA Degree Show

THE BERTHA AND KARL LEUBSDORF ART GALLERYBox1Folder11ContentsPostcards, Posters, and Programs, 1987- 2012The End is Night Urban Landscape PhotographyEV: An Evocation of Ottoman IstanbulEverybody Now: The Crowd in Contemporary ArtExotic RepresentationFaculty Small WorksMark Feldstein Recent WorkFormulation and Representation: Recent Abstract SculptureGive us some parley-vooGlasgow School of Art/Hunter College Art Department Works onPaper by Painting FacultyJulius Goldstein: Seeing Through LandscapesHandmade ReadymadesHeavenly or a Slice of WhiteRalph Humphrey: Late Paintings on PaperHunter Art Faculty Presents: Selections, 1991Hunter College BFA Degree ShowHunter College BFA ExhibitionDon’t Think One WayEight Is EnoughSerious ArtSeptagonSomebodyThe Spring 1996 BFA ShowStuck TogetherUnited By Passion for ArtHunter Faculty Photography ExhibitionHunter Gallery SelectsItalian-American Artists, 1945 – 1968 A Limited Survey, Workson PaperLes Jolies Femmes d’Edouard de BeaumontLocate

THE BERTHA AND KARL LEUBSDORF ART GALLERYBoxFolderContents111Postcards and Posters, 1987 - 2012The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery of Hunter CollegeDedicationVincent Longo Prints 1954 - 1995, A SelectionMapping New YorkMarked Bay Area “Drawings”The MICROSCOPE and the SKELETON A DigitalPhotomicrography of Hard TissuesMixing It Up Recent Hunter MFAs Working in Combined MediaModes of Perception: Paintings by V. Campanella12Nature in ProgressNature is not RomanticNews, Surprise & Nostalgia: MA Alumni ExhibitionOff the WallOn Site Travel Sketches by ArchitectsA Painter’s Poet: Stéphane Mallarmé and His Impressionist CircleRay ParkerPaths of Abstraction: Paintings in New York, 1944 – 1981Selections from the Ciba Art CollectionA Peep into the Past: Max Beerbohm CaricaturesPhysical ReliefPeripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context Picture This! Daumier’s Caricatures on Art & ArtistsPorter PairingsPresentational Painting IIPuerto Rican Equation Puerto Rican Artists Ponder on 100 YearsSince the 1898 InvasionUpon Further Review: Looking at Sports in Contemporary ArtRegarding IntimacyReamerica! Amerika 1492 - 1992Remmant

THE BERTHA AND KARL LEUBSDORF ART GALLERYBoxFolderContents112Postcards and Posters, 1987 - 2012Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West in the Eighteenth andNineteenth CenturiesRepeatRepresenting Vietnam 1965 -1973 The Antiwar Movement inAmericaGiulio Romano, Master DesignerRoots & Reeds: The Amazing Grace of the Gullah PeoplePeopleSeeing Red, Part I: Pioneers of Nonobjective PaintingSeeing Red, Part II: Contemporary Nonobjective PaintingSelections 1991Selections 1993Septagon Hunter College BFA Degree ShowBen Shahn The Task of Photography in Thirties AmericaStrange WorldsWilliam E. B. Starkweather: The Travel PicturesTemples of Illusion: The Atmospheric Theaters ofJohn EbersonTen. BFA Degree ShowThe Terni Suite: An Exhibition of Constructed Paintings byJoseph CaroffThree Generations of Abstract PaintingTime Square Show RevistedTracing Tony Smith’s TauTo: Night Contemporary Representations of the NightTo Shanghai and BackTransparent Opaque Paintings on PaperTurning the Corner2 FoldUncommon Images: Early Photos of Medieval MovementsUnderknown in New York, II