Sorry to be a bit behind on blogging this week, but I thought I’d give you a glimpse of what I and my collections colleagues have been working on. We’re preparing to install the new exhibit “Friend or Faux: Imitation and Invention from Innocent to Fraudulent” and so we’ve been busily patching and painting walls …
W. Dewitt, portrait of John Brown. Charles Town W.V., 1859. 1981.7 Trying to define the beginning of the Civil War is a bit tricky. The first shots were fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, but the causes and lead-up to the war can be seen to stretch back decades or more. One key …
This guest post is brought to you by the Rosenbach fall collections intern Jessica Walthew.When, where and how was this interesting photo taken? Clue #1: This “photo-multigraph” shows five Dr. Rosenbachs seated around a table. Photo multigraphs are an example of a type of trick photography that was popular at the end of the 19th …
OK, with the Where the Wild Things movie coming out on Friday, it’s about time for a blog post on Sendak’s ventures into film. For those of you counting down the days until the release, you might enjoy this Newsweek article about the film, this MTV page in which the actors talk about their memories …
I’m a bit behind on blogging this week, since I just got back from New Haven, where we are lending our miniature of James I to the Yale Center for British Art for an exhibit on the collector and commentator Horace Walpole. The exhibit runs from October 15-January 3 and it won’t even cost you …
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about our upcoming exhibition “Friend or Faux” which deals with the nature of authenticity. Recently in doing research for the exhibition I had occasion to delve into the story of the forger Mark Hofmann. For those of you who are not familiar with his case, Hofmann was a …
The last week in September is marked annually by the American Library Association (and its numerous partners) as Banned Books Week. Given that the Rosenbach’s best known collections include Ulysses (which was seized and banned in both the U.K. and the U.S.) and Maurice Sendak (whose In the Night Kitchen clocks in at #28 on …
At the moment, everything at the Rosenbach is awhirl with getting Sue Johnson’s exhibit Moore Adventures in Wonderland ready to open tomorrow and our Wild Things exhibit ready to open next week. But despite all the running around, we’re still plugging away at some of our ongoing projects. I’ve been spending a bunch of time …
Many thanks to Richard Brozenec for sending in this picture of Rosenbach Company motorized tricycle, which he found at the Industriemuseum Brandenburg. We had no idea that it existed! It was made by the Brennabor company which was based in Brandenburg and was the largest German car producer in the mid 1920s. Apparently the label …
If you’re anything like me, visiting the Rosenbach (or in my case working there) creates a burning desire to read (or re-read) some of the classics represented in our collection. I must confess to not yet having the courage to tackle Ulysses, but I have enjoyed reacquainting myself with Dracula, the Canterbury Tales, the poetry …