Hay Exhibits
Digital access to select materials currently on view or that have been exhibited in gallery spaces within the library.
Subcollections (9)
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Illustrated Quixote
...In the fall of 2005, the Brown University Library celebrated the 400th anniversary of the publication of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha with an exhibit featuring book illustrations and title pages from the first edition of this …
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Military Miniatures from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
War shrinks down to pocket-sized action with these lead soldiers. The imagined battles are intricate, with whole armies charging, weapons flying, and straggling soldiers at one another’s aid, but each two-inch figurine can only fit so much detail. They’re abstractions …... -
John Hay Library’s Grand Staircase Installation
As you walk up the grand staircase you can note the stunning detail of the Beaux-Arts architecture that is original to the building, which opened in 1910. The images displayed on the stairway’s walls offer the opportunity to browse exemplars …... -
Seeds for New Directions: ASKB Military Collection Gallery Installation
Over the past decades, the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection has garnered renown for its rich collection relating to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering in Europe and the U.S. Recently, however, the John Hay Library has critically …... -
Shared Magma: An American and Swedish Collaboration on Sisterhood and Sister Ore
Iron Rock Hill in Cumberland, RI and the mountain of Taberg in Småland, Sweden are ancient formations of a rare eruptive rock with shared properties. Shared Magma celebrates the intersection of Late Proterozoic geology and a contemporary friendship between Swedish …... -
A Pictorial Dragon, the Art of Fernando Birri
This digital collection celebrates the centennial of Fernando Birri (1925–2017), the pioneering Argentine filmmaker, artist and theorist of the New Latin American Cinema. Featuring drawings, paintings, collages and writings from his personal archive he gifted to the John Hay Library …... -
Mumia Abu-Jamal collections at the John Hay Library (Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration Exhibition, 2023)
...This digital collection includes digitized items from the Mumia Abu-Jamal Papers, the Free Mumia Movement Collection, and various other items curated in the Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Portrait of Mass Incarceration exhibition at the John Hay Library (2023). Digital …
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Stephen Mopope paintings of seven Native American subjects
Stephen Mopope (1898-1974) was a Kiowa painter, dancer, and flute player of Spanish descent, from Oklahoma. He was the most prolific member of a group of Kiowa artists known as the Kiowa Five. This collection contains 7 gouache paintings that …... -
Fashioning Insurrection: From Imperial Resistance to American Orientalisms
Americans have adapted uniforms into costumes since the masquerade balls of colonial days to today’s historical films and battle reenactments. The practice took an unexpected form in the first decades following the American Revolution when the early presses of the …...