Blog – Special Collections & Museums

March 28, 2018 • AnnaLivia McCarthy

Phoebe Beasley, renowned for her work in collage, is the fifth artist in our blog series. Maya Angelou was a close friend and mentor to Beasley. In 1998, they completed a collaborative project by publishing a limited-edition book. Angelou chose ... More

Five Women Artists: Kay WalkingStick

March 22, 2018 • AnnaLivia McCarthy

Kay WalkingStick, the fourth artist featured in our blog series, is an American landscape painter and print maker. As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, WalkingStick often makes artwork inspired by her indigenous ancestry. After being raised in a White ... More

Five Women Artists: Carrie Mae Weems

March 13, 2018 • AnnaLivia McCarthy

Carrie Mae Weems is the third artist featured in our blog series. This photograph comes from her Kitchen Table Series, which explores the dynamics of relationships in the domestic setting of her kitchen. Weems’s work is in part autobiographical and in ... More

Five Women Artists: Selma Hortense Burke

March 8, 2018 • AnnaLivia McCarthy

Selma Hortense Burke is the second artist featured in this blog series. She may be an artist whose name is unfamiliar to you, but it is likely you encounter her artwork everyday. She is most famous for sculpting the relief ... More

Five Women Artists: robin holder

March 1, 2018 • AnnaLivia McCarthy

The first artist featured in our Five Women Artists series is robin holder. Two of her prints are included in the exhibition, Problem Solving: Highlights from the Experimental Printmaking Institute, on view in Mechanical Hall Gallery. This print by robin holder ... More

Can You Name Five Women Artists?

February 28, 2018 • AnnaLivia McCarthy

In union with the National Museum of Women in the Arts and countless other museums across the country, we are participating in the 3rd annual #5WomenArtists campaign. This March, we are highlighting work by female-identifying artists in the Museums Collections. ... More

Circling Kate Greenaway

March 8, 2017 • Samantha Nystrom

“Kate Greenaway Before the Fates” Self-Portrait, 1883 Mark Samuels Lasner Collection Kate Greenaway is a figure that I’ve been circling for some time now. I am currently studying 19th century gardens—both in their material and textual configurations—and, while I am early ... More

Happy Birthday, W.B. Yeats

June 13, 2016 • Maureen Cech

Nobel-prize-winning poet and playwright William Butler Yeats was born on June 13, 1865, in Sandymount, Ireland. A co-founder of the Irish Literary Revival and the Irish theatre movement, he was one of the founders of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre (est. 1904). ... More

Book Enthusiasts Celebrate Arrival of Kelmscott Chaucer at Mark Samuels Lasner Collection

May 12, 2016 • Alex Ames

Printing scholars, librarians, book collectors, UD faculty, and students toast the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection’s landmark acquisition William Morris was one of the most consequential cultural figures in nineteenth-century Britain. He was also a noted printer, and a rare copy of his ... More