News
Dec
3
A View from the Vault: Whistler’s "Riva"
by Ashley Rye-Kopec, Assistant Director, Museums As we approach the end of the semester, Main Street in Newark becomes crowded with residents, students, holiday shoppers and more. James McNeill Whistler’s etching The Riva provides a similar opportunity to observe ... Read More
Nov
19
Celebrating the Acquisition of a First Edition of Pride and Prejudice
by Caroline Liebel, graduate assistant, Special Collections Mark Samuels Lasner Collection “It is a truth universally acknowledged …” that Jane Austen’s second published book, Pride and Prejudice, remains one of the most beloved works in English literature. Published in ... Read More
Oct
15
A View from the Vault: Lonnie Holley’s "I Got My Power from the Sun"
by Leah Mackall, gallery attendant supervisor, Museums Upon the walls of Old College gallery rests a wiry sculpture full of life. Layers upon layers of thin golden metal wire and rubber cord seem to spontaneously bend and loop, forming ... Read More
Sep
17
A View from the Vault: Shakespeare at Blackfriars
by Arline Wilson, Special Collections Librarian Step into the candle-lit world of early 17th-century London with The Two Noble Kinsmen (1634), a rare first edition held in the University of Delaware’s Special Collections. Credited to William Shakespeare and John ... Read More
Aug
20
A View from the Vault: Henlopen Light
by Amanda Zehnder, Chief Curator and Head, Museums This seaside scene showing a lighthouse perched on top of a dune evokes the pleasures of late summer—beach days, the approach of Labor Day and the anticipation of a new academic year. ... Read More
Mar
26
A View from the Vault: Ken Smith's "The Garden"
by Victoria S. Kenyon, doctoral candidate in art history, graduate research assistant, University Museums An anthropomorphic figure rests in a barren garden landscape. It is clearly not living, but a red heart sits within the hollow, cage-like chest. The ... Read More
