RIT-ART. RIT Art Collection

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Painting of a Pennsylvania locomotive by John C. Wenrich. The son of a locomotive engineer, Wenrich enrolled at the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (RAMI) in 1914, where he studied drawing and design. The collection includes one painting from 1956.

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Print by Harold Stewart Bishop depicting the Reynolds Arcade located in Rochester, NY. The Reynolds Arcade building was the first home of the Athenaeum, one of RIT's founding organizations.

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Scrypt: three site-specific projects performed on and in the Wallace Memorial Library at the Rochester Institute of Technology during the construction of the Library extension, January 1990 - May 1991, as part of Gordon Bleach's Masters in Fine Arts thesis. The collection is thirteen photographs.

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The portrait of William Destler was painted by Pranesh Das Purandaradoss, an MBA student at the Saunders College of Business. Destler was RIT's ninth president serving from 2007-2017. This is likely an oil painting, and has been selected by Destler as his official portrait.

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Tage Frid chandelier is finely handcrafted from cast iron. Mr. Frid was a woodworking instructor for the School for American Craftsmen from 1950-1961.

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Richard Margolis photograph is a framed black and white photograph of an outdoor scene presumably taken in Highland Park, Rochester, NY.

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Collection is a miniature replica of sculptor D.H.S. Wehle's bronze tiger that can be found on RIT's campus between the Student Union and the Wallace Library. Additionally, a mounted plaque authenticating ownership of the sculpture.

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Medals, photographs, drawings, and scrapbooks relating to Achille Forgione, collected by the artist's friend Hy Kreitzman.

Content Description 280 digital image files made by Howard Levant from his personal photographs. The images were made during his long career as an advertising photographer, before he came to teach at RIT. The advertisements are arranged by type and company: Food, Location, People, Still Life, Gerber, Historic, Kimberly Clark, People test. Also includes oral history interview with Howard and Becky Simmons, RIT Archivist in a WAV file Howard Levant Interview (Becky Simmons, interviewer) The...

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This collection is comprised of three tintype (wet collodion) of snowflakes, captured and printed by Michael Peres and Willie Osterman. Photographs are mounted together and matted in black.