Museum & Gallery Exhibits

In 1998, Memorial Art Gallery Director Grant Holcomb bid on a mysterious painting on the auction block at Sotheby’s. Almost nothing was known about it, or about its remarkably talented painter, but Holcomb’s risk paid off. In a review of auction sales that year, one writer hailed the work as "a masterpiece that is the equal of the best of William Harnett…John Peto…and John Haberle…the three great American titans of trompe l’oeil." With photographs, engravings, and antique bits of bric-a-brac—all overseen by a bespectacled and bearded figure—The Printseller is filled with puzzling bits that suggest a story. This exhibition tells how the painting’s secrets have been given up one by one through the painstaking detective work of guest curator Pete Brown.

GALLERY STORE: Open Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and until 9 p.m. Thursday; Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

MAX at the Gallery: Open for lunch Tuesday-Saturday and for Sunday brunch. Reservations suggested, (585) 276-8947 or (585) 697-0491. FREE ADMISSION: Present your namebadge during Meliora Weekend at the Gallery's Admission Desk and receive FREE admission.

The University Archives, sometimes called the UR’s attic, is filled with 159 years’ worth of treasures and marvels. This exhibit brings together an assortment of rarely seen objects: ephemera, photographs, clothing, mementos, curiosa, and much more that has been generated since the University’s founding. From the mundane to the rarified, from the funny to the poignant, there is something to enchant everyone.

A lavish exhibition of literary, cinematic, popular, visual, and historical materials illustrating the appeal of Robin Hood from the 18^th to the 21^st centuries.  This exhibit, in Rush Rhees Library and elsewhere on campus, will include previously unshown photographs from the George Eastman House, items from the Strong National Museum of Play,  and thousands of items in paper media (printed books, sheets, ephemera, cartoons, comic books, boys’ serials, garlands, prose lives, “histories,” posters from well known and obscure films and TV), film and TV recordings (DVDs, VCR tapes, various film formats of commercial, public, and cable productions), musical recordings (popular song, operettas, rock and roll, rap, soundtracks, spoken word, and more), along with other artifacts such as games, puzzles, Viewmaster reels, teapots and plates, and more.

Thomas Hahn is a professor of English whose teaching centers on the sponsorship, production, and interpretation of texts and images from the earlier Middle Ages through the early modern period. Recent papers, publications, and seminars have concentrated on those scattered or huddled at the edges of emerging European identities, including women, Indians, Jews, heretics, Robin Hood and other outlaws, virtuous pagans, popular chivalric heroes, and other monstrous types.

Exhibitions:
An Impression of the Middle Ages: Production Stills from Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood
A major exhibition drawing upon an archive of nearly 1000 negatives at the George Eastman House, most never exhibited or examined before. The exhibition will also include original posters and lobby cards, and the boots which Fairbanks wore in the film. Support and contributions from the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department, and the University of Rochester Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

The Americanization of Robin Hood, 1883-1923
A focused exhibition, tracing the development of American images of Robin Hood which have permanently changed the outlaw’s status in international popular culture.  Incorporating the Fairbanks photographs from “An Impression of the Middle Ages,” it will provide a lavishly documented account of the impact and history of Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, and present music, lyrics, advertisements, programs, and photographs associated with the operettas of Reginald De Koven, including Robin Hood (1891) and Maid Marian (1901).  Support and contributions from the George Eastman House, the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, the Sibley Music Library, and a private collection.

Robin Hood: Media Creature
An exhibition of Robin Hood-related materials, ranging from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, in all media – selected from thousands of items in paper media (printed books, sheets, ephemera, cartoons, comic books, boys’ serials, garlands, prose lives, “histories,” posters from well known and obscure films and TV), film and TV recordings (DVDs, VCR tapes, various film formats of commercial, public, and cable productions), musical recordings (popular song, operettas, rock and roll, rap, soundtracks, spoken word, and more), photographs (including a selection from previously un-exhibited “keybooks” for The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938] with Errol Flynn),  along with other artifacts such as games, puzzles, viewmaster reels, teapots and plates, and more.  Support and contributions from the Strong National Museum of Play, the George Eastman House, the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Rush Rhees Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, and a private collection.

In 1998, Memorial Art Gallery Director Grant Holcomb bid on a mysterious painting on the auction block at Sotheby’s. Almost nothing was known about it, or about its remarkably talented painter, but Holcomb’s risk paid off. In a review of auction sales that year, one writer hailed the work as "a masterpiece that is the equal of the best of William Harnett…John Peto…and John Haberle…the three great American titans of trompe l’oeil." With photographs, engravings, and antique bits of bric-a-brac—all overseen by a bespectacled and bearded figure—The Printseller is filled with puzzling bits that suggest a story. This exhibition tells how the painting’s secrets have been given up one by one through the painstaking detective work of guest curator Pete Brown.

Artist Edie Tsong transforms the gallery into an interactive performance between gallery visitors and herself via live teleconference. Come participate in this live exchange of portraits between you and the artist.

The University Archives, sometimes called the UR’s attic, is filled with 159 years’ worth of treasures and marvels. This exhibit brings together an assortment of rarely-seen objects: ephemera, photographs, clothing, mementos, curiosa, and much more that has been generated since the University’s founding in 1850. From the mundane to the rarified, from the funny to the poignant, there is something to enchant everyone.

A lavish exhibtion of literary, cinematic, popular, visual, and historical materials illustrating the appeal of Robin Hood from the 18^th to the 21^st centuries.  This exhibit, in Rush Rhees Library and elsewhere on campus, will include previously unshown photographs from the George Eastman House, items from the Strong National Museum of Play,  and thousands of items in paper media (printed books, sheets, ephemera, cartoons, comic books, boys’ serials, garlands, prose lives, “histories,” posters from well known and obscure films and TV), film and TV recordings (DVDs, VCR tapes, various film formats of commercial, public, and cable productions), musical recordings (popular song, operettas, rock and roll, rap, soundtracks, spoken word, and more), along with other artifacts such as games, puzzles, viewmaster reels, teapots and plates, and more.

Thomas Hahn is a professor of English whose teaching centers on the sponsorship, production, and interpretation of texts and images from the earlier Middle Ages through the early modern period. Recent papers, publications, and seminars have concentrated on those scattered or huddled at the edges of emerging European identities, including women, Indians, Jews, heretics, Robin Hood and other outlaws, virtuous pagans, popular chivalric heroes, and other monstrous types.

Exhibitions:
An Impression of the Middle Ages: Productions Stills from Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood
A major exhibition drawing upon an archive of nearly 1000 negatives at the George Eastman House, most never exhibited or examined before. The exhibition will also include original posters and lobby cards, and the boots which Fairbanks wore in the film. Support and contributions from the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department, and the University of Rochester Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

The Americanization of Robin Hood, 1883-1923
A focused exhibition, tracing the development of American images of Robin Hood which have permanently changed the outlaw’s status in international popular culture.  Incorporating the Fairbanks photographs from “An Impression of the Middle Ages,” it will provide a lavishly documented account of the impact and history of Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, and present music, lyrics, advertisements, programs, and photographs associated with the operettas of Reginald De Koven, including Robin Hood (1891) and Maid Marian (1901).  Support and contributions from the George Eastman House, the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, the Sibley Music Library, and a private collection.

Robin Hood: Media Creature
An exhibition of Robin Hood-related materials, ranging from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, in all media – selected from thousands of items in paper media (printed books, sheets, ephemera, cartoons, comic books, boys’ serials, garlands, prose lives, “histories,” posters from well known and obscure films and TV), film and TV recordings (DVDs, VCR tapes, various film formats of commercial, public, and cable productions), musical recordings (popular song, operettas, rock and roll, rap, soundtracks, spoken word, and more), photographs (including a selection from previously un-exhibited “keybooks” for The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938] with Errol Flynn),  along with other artifacts such as games, puzzles, viewmaster reels, teapots and plates, and more.  Support and contributions from the Strong National Museum of Play, the George Eastman House, the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Rush Rhees Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, and a private collection.

In 1998, Memorial Art Gallery Director Grant Holcomb bid on a mysterious painting on the auction block at Sotheby’s. Almost nothing was known about it, or about its remarkably talented painter, but Holcomb’s risk paid off. In a review of auction sales that year, one writer hailed the work as "a masterpiece that is the equal of the best of William Harnett…John Peto…and John Haberle…the three great American titans of trompe l’oeil." With photographs, engravings, and antique bits of bric-a-brac—all overseen by a bespectacled and bearded figure—The Printseller is filled with puzzling bits that suggest a story. This exhibition tells how the painting’s secrets have been given up one by one through the painstaking detective work of guest curator Pete Brown. GALLERY STORE: Open Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and until 9 p.m. Thursday; Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. MAX at the Gallery: Open for lunch Tuesday-Saturday and for Sunday brunch. Reservations suggested, (585) 276-8947 or (585) 697-0491. FREE ADMISSION: Present your namebadge during Meliora Weekend at the Gallery's Admission Desk and receive FREE admission.

The University Archives, sometimes called the UR’s attic, is filled with 159 years’ worth of treasures and marvels. This exhibit brings together an assortment of rarely seen objects: ephemera, photographs, clothing, mementos, curiosa, and much more that has been generated since the University’s founding. From the mundane to the rarified, from the funny to the poignant, there is something to enchant everyone.

A lavish exhibtion of literary, cinematic, popular, visual, and historical materials illustrating the appeal of Robin Hood from the 18^th to the 21^st centuries.  This exhibit, in Rush Rhees Library and elsewhere on campus, will include previously unshown photographs from the George Eastman House, items from the Strong National Museum of Play,  and thousands of items in paper media (printed books, sheets, ephemera, cartoons, comic books, boys’ serials, garlands, prose lives, “histories,” posters from well known and obscure films and TV), film and TV recordings (DVDs, VCR tapes, various film formats of commercial, public, and cable productions), musical recordings (popular song, operettas, rock and roll, rap, soundtracks, spoken word, and more), along with other artifacts such as games, puzzles, viewmaster reels, teapots and plates, and more.

Thomas Hahn is a professor of English whose teaching centers on the sponsorship, production, and interpretation of texts and images from the earlier Middle Ages through the early modern period. Recent papers, publications, and seminars have concentrated on those scattered or huddled at the edges of emerging European identities, including women, Indians, Jews, heretics, Robin Hood and other outlaws, virtuous pagans, popular chivalric heroes, and other monstrous types.

Exhibitions:
An Impression of the Middle Ages: Productions Stills from Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood
A major exhibition drawing upon an archive of nearly 1000 negatives at the George Eastman House, most never exhibited or examined before. The exhibition will also include original posters and lobby cards, and the boots which Fairbanks wore in the film. Support and contributions from the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department, and the University of Rochester Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

The Americanization of Robin Hood, 1883-1923
A focused exhibition, tracing the development of American images of Robin Hood which have permanently changed the outlaw’s status in international popular culture.  Incorporating the Fairbanks photographs from “An Impression of the Middle Ages,” it will provide a lavishly documented account of the impact and history of Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, and present music, lyrics, advertisements, programs, and photographs associated with the operettas of Reginald De Koven, including Robin Hood (1891) and Maid Marian (1901).  Support and contributions from the George Eastman House, the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, the Sibley Music Library, and a private collection.

Robin Hood: Media Creature
An exhibition of Robin Hood-related materials, ranging from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, in all media – selected from thousands of items in paper media (printed books, sheets, ephemera, cartoons, comic books, boys’ serials, garlands, prose lives, “histories,” posters from well known and obscure films and TV), film and TV recordings (DVDs, VCR tapes, various film formats of commercial, public, and cable productions), musical recordings (popular song, operettas, rock and roll, rap, soundtracks, spoken word, and more), photographs (including a selection from previously un-exhibited “keybooks” for The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938] with Errol Flynn),  along with other artifacts such as games, puzzles, viewmaster reels, teapots and plates, and more.  Support and contributions from the Strong National Museum of Play, the George Eastman House, the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, Rush Rhees Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, and a private collection.

In 1998, Memorial Art Gallery Director Grant Holcomb bid on a mysterious painting on the auction block at Sotheby’s. Almost nothing was known about it, or about its remarkably talented painter, but Holcomb’s risk paid off. In a review of auction sales that year, one writer hailed the work as "a masterpiece that is the equal of the best of William Harnett…John Peto…and John Haberle…the three great American titans of trompe l’oeil." With photographs, engravings, and antique bits of bric-a-brac—all overseen by a bespectacled and bearded figure—The Printseller is filled with puzzling bits that suggest a story. This exhibition tells how the painting’s secrets have been given up one by one through the painstaking detective work of guest curator Pete Brown.

GALLERY STORE: Open Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and until 9 p.m. Thursday; Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

MAX at the Gallery: Open for lunch Tuesday-Saturday and for Sunday brunch. Reservations suggested, (585) 276-8947 or (585) 697-0491.

FREE ADMISSION: Present your namebadge during Meliora Weekend at the Gallery's Admission Desk and receive FREE admission.