Recent Acquisitions

These recent additions to Special Collections may not yet be reflected in TriArte, our online database. We are working to catalogue them more fully.

Screenshot of blogpost featuring 6 artworks added to Special Collections

Works by Bethany Collins, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Myra Greene, Maren Hassinger, Steffani Jemison, and Marcia Kure
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Kris Graves from series American Monuments, portfolio of 16 photographs (2021)

Photograph by Kris Graves from series American Monuments, taken at protests in Richmond, VA, 2020 — Kris Graves, George Floyd projection, Richmond, Virginia, 2020 from series American Monuments (2021) Archival pigment print, 16 x 20 in.

This acquisition deepens our collection of works by Kris Graves begun in 2016.

See 2016 exhibition at Bryn Mawr
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Ellie Ga (Artist in Residence 2021-22)

Close up photograph of capped bottle with scrolled paper inside — Ellie Ga, Bottle #430, Zandvoort, Netherlands (Wim Kruiswijk archive), 2017, C-print, 16 x 16 in. (pictured here) Ellie Ga, Pharmakon, 2013, Letterpress on paper, 19 x 12 in. Ellie Ga, The Deck of Tara, 2011, 52 unique playing cards and booklet in wooden box, 1 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.

Learn more about artist's residency

Guerrilla Girls, Portfolio Compleat 1985-2012 + 2012-2016 upgrade

Assemblage of Ingres' Odalisque wearing Gorilla Mask asking if women have to be naked to get into…

Linda Troeller - 64 photographs of/by artist

Gouged polaroid self-portrait of artist — Self-portrait, Crumbling Marriange, Lawrenceville, NJ (1987) SX-70 color polaroid, 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. 2019.75.22

See additional works by Troeller in collection
Read recent mention in British Journal of Photography

William Villalongo from series Re: History (2015)

Collage diptych of art catalogue's page spread, pasting African masks over the faces of painted nude… — William Villalongo, Re: History-Muses (Artifact 1), 2015, paper (periodicals) collage on paper, 18 x 23 in. (2018.6.11) William Villalongo, Re: History-Affinities (Berlin Museum, Art, Picasso, Lipschitz, Nevelson, Abkanowicz), 18 x 23 in. (2018.6.10) William Villalongo, Re: History-Jet (Artifact 13), 18 x 23 in. (2018.6.12)

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