RIT-ART. RIT Art Collection

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The Paul Rankin collection of Frans Wildenhain sketchbooks and slides contains four books of sketches done by Mr. Wildenhain in the 1970's, approximately 154 slides of his sculptures, pots, and murals, several books and publications relating to the Bauhaus in Germany, Marguerite Wildenhain, and crafts, some in German.

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Collection of seven photographs by Patti Ambroggi from the series The Cover Girls: Women in History and The Geographies of Desire: the Rebel Forest. Ambrogi teaches photography at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Overview The Jeannette Klute collection contains photographs, matrices and papers, including correspondence and published articles that document her work photographing and making dye transfer photographs. During a long career in the research labs at Eastman Kodak Company she tested and refined the difficult process and applied it to her own artistic work. Inspired by nature, Klute photographed plants in the Bristol, New York area as well as New England. Her series of dye transfer prints entitled...

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Collection of artwork exhibited in the Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) 150th Anniversary Art Show. RIT celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1979. The collection includes works by both students and faculty done in a variety of media.

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Charlot Bowman drawings contain pen and ink illustrations for two works: Pippin's House, by Constance Savory and American Women Poets 1937.

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Large collection of medical illustration sketches, drawings and teaching aids from the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences Fine Arts Medical Illustration program. Illustrators included are Natt Jacobs, Robert Wabnitz, Peter Ng, William Didusch, and Max Brodel.

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Ralph Avery lithographs contains 5 sets, mainly depicting scenes of Rochester, New York.

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RIT Libraries established the Photo Purchase Prize Award program in 1981 to provide a visual history of RIT's School of Photographic Arts and Sciences (SPAS). Each year works are purchased for the collection from the SPAS Student Honor Show, a juried exhibition open to students in all departments of the School.

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The Photography in Cuba photographs consist of twenty-four matted color prints of Havana, Cuba and other small towns, taken by 20 RIT students and faculty during Spring break 2004. In 2016, Photo professor and faculty guide to Cuba deposited additional student photographs from 2004 and also from the 2014 trip.

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The RIT Libraries Art Purhase Prize program has awarded purchase prizes to graduate students of the School of Art and the School of Design annually 1972. Works are purchased for the permament collection from MFA thesis exhibits.