2002 Annual Report - New York Public Library

Exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ARE INTENDED
TO GIVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE LIBRARY’S RICH
AND VARIED COLLECTIONS. THIS YEAR, MAJOR EXHIBITIONS WERE
MOUNTED AT THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES LIBRARY,
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, THE
SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, AND THE
SCIENCE, INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS LIBRARY. IN ADDITION TO THE
EXHIBITIONS LISTED HERE, SMALLER DISPLAYS WERE ALSO ON
VIEW THROUGHOUT THE YEAR IN RESEARCH LIBRARIES’ READING
ROOMS AND IN THE BRANCH LIBRARIES.
Humanities and
Social Sciences
Library
Support for the Exhibitions
Program at The New York
Public Library’s Humanities
and Social Sciences Library
has been provided by Mr.
and Mrs. Saul Steinberg,
Pinewood Foundation, Sue
and Edgar Wachenheim III,
and the Bertha and Isaac
Liberman Foundation, Inc.
in memory of Ruth and
Seymour Klein.
The New York Public
Library would also like
to thank Sue and Edgar
Wachenheim III for their
generous gift to establish
an endowment in
support of exhibition
publications.
D. Samuel and Jeane H.
Gottesman Exhibition Hall
American Originals:Treasures
from the National Archives
October 5, 2001–
January 5, 2002
This exhibition was created
by the National Archives
and Records Administration,
Washington, D.C.,
and The Foundation for
the National Archives.
Support for this exhibition
at The New York Public
Library was provided by
The Gilder Lehrman Institute
of American History.
Corporate support in New
York was provided by Bank
of America.
The brochure produced
for American Originals was
made possible by Sue and
Edgar Wachenheim III and
by the Bertha and Isaac
Liberman Foundation, Inc.
in memory of Ruth and
Seymour Klein.
Victorians, Moderns, and
Beats: New in the Berg
Collection, 1994–2001
April 26–July 27, 2002
Funding for this exhibition
was provided in part by the
Henry W. and Albert A.
Berg Collection of English
and American Literature.
The brochure produced
for Victorians, Moderns,
and Beats was made possible
by Sue and Edgar
Wachenheim III and by
the Bertha and Isaac
Liberman Foundation,
Inc. in memory of Ruth
and Seymour Klein.
The Sue and Edgar
Wachenheim III Gallery
The Emancipation
Proclamation
November 16–19, 2001
This exhibition was created
by the National Archives
and Records Administration,
Washington, D.C.,
and The Foundation for
the National Archives.
Support for this exhibition
at The New York Public
Library was provided by
The Gilder Lehrman Institute
of American History.
Corporate support in New
York was provided by Bank
of America.
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas
Carol and Holiday
Greetings from the George
Arents Collection
November 23, 2001–
January 5, 2002
Immortal Treasures:
Japanese Handscrolls from
the Spencer Collection
January 18–March 2, 2002
Liturgical Manuscripts
March 8–April 6, 2002
The Declaration of
Independence
June 28–July 13, 2002
Edna Barnes Salomon Room
The Public’s Treasures:
Americana from The
New York Public Library
September 7, 2001–
April 27, 2002
The Public’s Treasures: A
Cabinet of Curiosities from
The New York Public Library
June 7–August 24, 2002
The brochure produced for
A Cabinet of Curiosities was
made possible by Sue and
Edgar Wachenheim III and
by the Bertha and Isaac
Liberman Foundation, Inc.
in memory of Ruth and
Seymour Klein.
The Print and Stokes
Galleries
Souvenirs of a Veteran
Collector: The Samuel
Putman Avery Collection at
The New York Public Library
April 5–June 29, 2002
This exhibition was made
possible by the continuing
generosity of Miriam and
Ira D. Wallach.
Charles Addams Gallery
Drawings by Charles
Addams were donated to
the Library by The Lady
Colyton and Marilyn
Addams. Exhibitions of
these drawings are supported
by an endowment established
by The Lady Colyton.
Cultural Differences
September 14, 2001–
January 26, 2002
Unreal Estate
February 1–June 29, 2002
E X H I B I T I O N S , P R O G R A M S , P U B L I C A T I O N S
Jill Kupin Rose Gallery
An ongoing installation
on the history and services
of The New York Public
Library. This gallery was
made possible through the
generosity of Marshall Rose.
DeWitt Wallace
Periodical Room
New American
Literary Magazines
June 21–August 17, 2002
The New York
Public Library for the
Performing Arts
The New York Public Library
for the Performing Arts
gratefully acknowledges
the leadership support of
Dorothy and Lewis B.
Cullman. Additional support
for exhibitions has
been provided by Judy R.
and Alfred A. Rosenberg
and the Miriam and Harold
Steinberg Foundation.
Donald and Mary
Oenslager Gallery and
Vincent Astor Gallery
Transformations
October 29, 2001–
January 5, 2002
Support for this exhibition
was provided by Elizabeth
Rivers Lewine.
Donald and Mary
Oenslager Gallery
Kurt Weill: Making
Music Theater
February 8–May 4, 2002
A collaboration with
The Kurt Weill Foundation
for Music.
Children’s Books
in Performance
June 28–October 31, 2002
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