Bryn Mawr College

Exhibitions

Mariam Coffin Canaday Library

Colors of Greece: The Art and Archaeology of Georg von Peschke
March 19–May 27, 2012

Rare Book Room. Open Monday-Saturday 12:00-4:30 p.m.

Georg von Peschke (1900–1959), an Austrian aristocrat, moved to Greece in the 1920s, where he became part of an important circle of Greek modernist painters and also served as an illustrator for American archaeological projects, including ones involving Bryn Mawr students and faculty. While Peschke exhibited widely in Greece and elsewhere in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, this is the first retrospective of his work. The subjects depicted in Colors of Greece range from landscapes painted on Greek islands to portraits of Peschke's family members and friends.

The curator of the exhibition is Kostis Kourelis, Assistant Professor of Art History at Franklin & Marshall College, and the exhibition is being presented in cooperation with the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College.

Colors of Greece opens March 21 with a lecture at 4:30 p.m. by Kostis Kourelis.

Thr exhibition is free and open to the public.  For further information about the exhibition and related programs, please contact the Special Collections Department at 610-526-6576, SpecColl@brynmawr.edu. For directions to the College and information about parking, please visit brynmawr.edu/campus/visiting.shtml.

 

Upcoming Events

The Quest to be Educated: the Complicated History of Women and Higher Education
Jennifer Redmond, Director, The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education at Bryn Mawr College 
Center City Lecture and Reception

Thursday, February 9, 5:30 pm,

New Century Trust, 1307 Locust St., Philadelphia

Dr. Redmond will talk about women’s early struggles to gain access to higher education, the preconceptions of women’s capabilities and roles in society that had to be overcome, and the critical role played by women’s colleges like Bryn Mawr. 

Wine and cheese reception will follow the lecture. RSVP to SpecColl@brynmawr.edu or 610-526-6576.

 

Georg von Peschke: The Archaeology of Greek Life
Kostis Kourelis, Assistant Professor of Art History, Franklin & Marshall College

Exhibition Opening and Lecture

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

4:30 pm

Carpenter Library 21

Dr. Kourelis, the curator of the exhibition on Peschke, will speak about Peschke's work both as a painter and as an archaeological illustrator in Greece in the 1930s. A reception will follow the lecture.

 

Greek Dress and the Embodied Archaeology of Eva Palmer Sikelianos
Artemis Leontis, Associate Professor of Modern Greek, University of Michigan

 Lecture

Thursday, April 5, 2012

4:30 pm

Carpenter Library 21

 

In conjunction with the exhibition Colors of Greece, Dr. Leontis, a scholar of modern Greece and Greek diaspora culture, will give a lecture on the subject of her current book, Eva Palmer Sikelianos (1874-1952), BMC class of 1900, and on Palmer's groundbreaking work as a creator of Greek dress for theatrical performances, including the famous reenactments of Delphic Festivals in 1927 and 1930. A reception will follow the lecture.

 

 

Elsewhere in Canaday Library

Bryn Mawr College Lanterns
Floor 3, main staircase landing
Open regular library hours

 

About Using Special Collections

 

 

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Lois and Reginald Collier Science Library

The Dr. A. V. Heyl Mineral Collection
Foyer. Open regular library hours

Allen Heyl grew up in Allentown, majored in geology at Penn State, then went on to Princeton for graduate work and a Ph.D. He had a long and illustrious career with the US Geological Survey, which required that specialists in mineralogy be able to work in all related branches of geology, including geochemistry and geophysics. Among his numerous publications (over 200) is a valuable work on the chrome mines of southeastern Pennsylvania. This year Dr. Heyl has generously presented the Geology Department with his Pennsylvania Collection of minerals. Many of the sites where the minerals were collected are no longer available or open to the public. Anyone interested in viewing more of the collection may contact Associate Curator, Juliet Reed by e-mail.

 

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Previous Exhibitions Online

Beyond the Text: Illustrations in Eighteenth-Century French Novels
April - December 2011, Eva Jan Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery

Colonial Perspectives: Works from the Louise Bulkeley Dillingham Collection

October 2009-February 2010

mAwRTyrS: Bryn Mawr Women in the Arts
September 2010-April 2011, Eva Jan Romaine Coombe '52 Special Collections Suite Gallery

Darwin’s Ancestors: Tracing the Origins of the “Origin of Species”
October 2009 - February 2010

Intimate Devotion: The Book of Hours in Medieval Religious Practice
January - May 2008

Breaking Ground, Breaking Tradition: Bryn Mawr and the First Generation of Women Archaeologists

September - December 2007

Pointing Fingers: Women Sin, Crime and Guilt

September - December 2006

Luxuriant Nature Smiling Round
January - May 2006

Building Muscles While Building Minds: Athletics and the Early Years of Women's Education
September - December 2005

Mapping New Worlds: The Cartography of European Exploration and Colonization, 1450–1750
January - May 2005

The Invention of Antiquity
September - December 2004

Bryn Mawr Plays: Dramatic Productions at Bryn Mawr College 1889-1920
2002-2003

Jeannette Jehanne Jeanne Joan: Shepherdess Soldier Savior Saint
January - June 2003

Dedicated to the Cause: Bryn Mawr Women and the Right to Vote
September 26 - December 20, 2002

The Very Best Woman's College There Is: M. Carey Thomas and the Making of the Bryn Mawr Campus September 21 - December 20, 2001

The Sargent Portrait: M. Carey Thomas and John Singer Sargent
September 21 - December 20, 2001

Books, Printers, and the Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe: 1450-1600
February 22 - June 1, 2001

It's the Ticket: Nineteenth-Century Bookbinding in the British Isles and the United States
September 23 December, 1998

Leading Bryn Mawr: An Exhibition in Honor of Nancy J. Vickers
1997