by Clements Library | Jan 8, 2013 | Collections, Exhibits
Now on display in the center cases of the Main Room:Making Their Own Way: African Americans in the Culinary World With a selection of the Longone Archive’s African American–authored works from the early 19th to the late 20th century, this exhibit presents the...
by Clements Library | Nov 8, 2012 | Exhibits, News
Kevin Brown’s article, “Exhibit celebrates key stage in emancipation struggle,” is in this week’s issue of the University Record. Co-curators Martha S. Jones and Clayton Lewis developed this exhibit, which commemorates the 150th...
by Clements Library | Oct 30, 2012 | Exhibits
In this YouTube video, Clements Library curator Clayton Lewis and Professor Martha Jones of the U-M Law School discuss their current exhibit, “Proclaiming Emancipation.” This exhibit is now on display at the Hatcher Graduate Library in Room 100. See...
by Clements Library | Oct 15, 2012 | Exhibits
Main Room of the Clements Library:The Geometry of War: Fortification Plans from 18th Century AmericaOctober 15, 2012 – February 15, 2013The 18th century was a time of intensive military activity in Europe and in the Americas. Much of this centered on...
by Clements Library | Oct 11, 2012 | Exhibits, News
Two articles this week in the University Record highlight Clements Library materials currently on display at the U-M Museum of Art. In “Benjamin West’s Paintings Celebrate an Empire,” Carole McNamara of the Museum of Art writes about the exhibit...
by Clements Library | Oct 4, 2012 | Exhibits
The Clements Library is pleased to offer a new online exhibit, The War of 1812: A Bicentennial Exhibition, curated by Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Associate Director and Curator of Maps. This exhibit was originally on display from February 27 to June 1, 2012, in...
by Clements Library | Oct 2, 2012 | Exhibits, News
John Carlos Cantu of AnnArbor.com writes in a recent art review that the Clements Library’s “Death of General Wolfe” painting by Benjamin West is “the single most significant public artwork in Washtenaw County, and among the most significant...
by Clements Library | Sep 25, 2012 | Exhibits
At the University of Michigan Museum of Art:Benjamin West: General Wolfe and the Art of EmpireSeptember 22, 2012 – January 13, 2013How is it that an American painter came to define the British Empire? Benjamin West’s iconic painting The Death of General...
by Clements Library | Sep 11, 2012 | Exhibits, News
John Carlos Cantu of AnnArbor.com reviews our current exhibit in his recent article, “University of Michigan’s Clements Library displays bygone representations of ‘Murder Most Foul.” The exhibit, curated by Clements Library Director J. Kevin...
