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  • Bob Riley Landscape Architecture Collection
    Ricker Library of Architecture and Art  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Robert B. Riley graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in philosophy, and subsequently went on to study under Mies van der Rohe at MIT where he received his Bachelor of Architecture. After a decade of private practice, he entered academia, teaching at the University of New Mexico, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Melbourne, and Harvard University. He has served as chair of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, the Environmental Design Research Association, and the Board of Senior Research Fellows at Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard University. He has been associate editor of Landscape and editor of Landscape Journal. These images are drawn from his extensive collection amassed over fifty years of teaching and travel. While some are pulled from secondary sources, many are original to Professor Riley. The strength of this collection is its breadth and diversity, including the last three decades of professional landscape design from around the world, townscapes and landscapes from Hangzhou to St. Petersburg, classic European and Asian gardens, aerial views of settlement patterns and landscapes, and the popular and vernacular landscapes of North America.
  • College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching Collection
    Ricker Library of Architecture and Art  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    The content of this collection is developed around the teaching needs of members of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and includes material related to Art and Design, Architecture, Dance, Landcsape Architecture, Music, Theater, and Urban and Regional Planning.
  • Historic Lantern Slides
    Ricker Library of Architecture and Art  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digitized lantern slides found in library collections. Includes hand painted slides portraying the Century of Progress exhibition, as well as previous Contemporary Art exhibitions held by the U of I.
  • Modern and Contemporary Art from the Jonathan Fineberg Collection
    Ricker Library of Architecture and Art  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    This collection contains approximately 1,500 images of post World War Two art from the archives of Jonathan Fineberg. Fineberg amassed a large personal collection of slides, predominantly in European and American art since 1850 but also including a broad range of other interests including child art, African art, architecture and pre 1850 European art. The University Library made a small selection for ARTstor consisting of original slides taken in certain artists' studios and on several of the major temporary projects of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Jonathan Fineberg is Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor of Art History Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana and Trustee Emeritus at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. where he was founding director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art. www.jonathanfineberg.com He received his B.A. (1967) and Ph.D. (1975) from Harvard University and an M.A. from the Courtauld Institute of Art (1969) and studied psychoanalysis at the Boston and Western New England Psychoanalytic Institutes (1970-75, 1979-81). He received the College Art Association's Award for Distinguished Teaching in the History of Art in 2001. He created the 2 hour PBS documentary Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art (with John Carlin) and his major books include: Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being (Prentice-Hall 2010), The Innocent Eye: Children's Art and the Modern Artist (Princeton 1997), Christo and Jeanne-Claude: On the Way to the Gates (Yale and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004), Imagining America: Icons of 20th Century American Art (with John Carlin, Yale 2005), When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child (University of California Press, 2006); Alice Aycock: Drawings, Some Stories Are Worth Repeating (Yale, 2013); and A TroubIesome Subject: The Art of Robert Arneson (University of California Press, 2013). Forthcoming in 2014: Disquieting Memories: The Art of Zhang Xiaogang (Phaidon) and The Language of the Enigmatic Object: Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain - The Nebraska Presidential Lectures (University of Nebraska Press).
  • Ricker Materials Collection
    Ricker Library of Architecture and Art  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Opened in January 2022, the Ricker Materials Collection (RMC) is a sample library of new, innovative, and common physical materials including wood, fibers, paper, textiles, ceramics, concrete, foam, and much more. The RMC provides a space for people to touch, feel, and explore materials while learning about new and old manufacturing innovations and contextualizing material culture. Typically found in industries that specialize in fashion, product design, architecture, and interior design, materials collections are crucial sandboxes for making decisions about how a final product or space will look and feel. This collection was developed for the Art & Design and Architecture schools at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and continues to grow according to the research needs and interests of students, faculty, staff, and our local community. The RMC is located inside the Ricker Library of Architecture & Art and is open during regular business hours. If you would like to schedule a group visit or request a specific item for the RMC, please contact Siobhan McKissic, the Design & Materials Research Librarian at siobhan2@illinois.edu.