RIT-ART. RIT Art Collection

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.

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

Six screen prints created by RIT professor R. Roger Remington.

Elmer Messner collection contains 1,500 political cartoons, mainly in pen and ink; newsprint clippings of Messner's work; and cartoons from other artists collected by or gifted to Messner.

Photographic portraits from three series by Nancy Stuart, photographer and former faculty member and associate dean at RIT. Also contains materials created while writing Stuart's dissertation where she received her Ph.D. in 2005 from SUNY Buffalo.

Pencil drawings of designs created by Hans Christensen, the renowned silversmith and Rochester Institute of Technology professor. Five of the drawings are of a spice box, while one is of a ceremonial mace presented to Mark Ellingson.

Collection contains 11- CD's of digital files, 85-4 x 5 inch color negatives, 19-color slides, 1- 8x 11 inch color photo of the NTID stained glass window, and a three page inventory of images used in View It! the art and architecture of RIT, a book about the artwork and architecture of the RIT campus.

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.

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.

The Eugene Colby collection contains drawings, etchings, oil paintings, and a student desk made by Colby.