Art Around Campus
From a fine arts gallery to the library, Haverford has many venues where students and the community can enjoy art.
Norman Turner: A Survey
Norman Turner discusses his exhibit at the Cantor
Fitzgerald Gallery. (6:27)
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Exhibition spaces include the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, the John B. Hurford Humanities Center, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, and Special Collections and the Sharpless Gallery at Magill Library. The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery provides a simple yet elegant environment for the display of works in any medium. The gallery was established in March 1994 and was named in recognition of a gift to the College from the late B. Gerald Cantor, founder of Cantor Fitzgerald Incorporated, a financial holding company. The gift was made in honor of the president of Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard W. Lutnick '83. Each year, an exhibit of senior student artwork is displayed in the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, located in the Whitehead Campus Center.
The Sharpless Gallery and Special Collections are both located in Magill Library, Haverford’s open-stack library. A wide variety of exhibits are shown in the Sharpless Gallery, including work by Haverford alums, and rare works from the private collections of alums. Many exhibits contain works from Haverford’s extensive Special Collections — the photography collection alone contains approximately 3,000 images created by more than 100 artists, including Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Edouard Boubat, Julia Margaret Cameron, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Lisette Model, August Sander, Eugene Smith, and Carl Van Vechten. Other works of art in Special collections include hundreds of art prints by such artists as Cezanne, Hiroshige, Kandinsky, Miro, Piranesi and Picasso and paintings by Cornelius DeMann Delft, Egbert van Heemskerk, Maxfield Parrish and Charles Willson Peale, as well as works of sculpture and artifacts both ancient and modern. Quaker photographs, silhouettes, drawings and paintings depicting Quaker individuals, Friends Schools and Colleges, Meetinghouses and miscellaneous groups constitute some of Haverford’s Quaker-specific art holdings and support new research into Quaker aesthetics.