Category Archives: Picture Collection
Faculty Library Orientation (Food – Desserts & Sweets)
Faculty Library Orientation
Tuesday, April 2, 11am
Visual Arts Library, 380 Second Avenue, 2nd floor
All SVA faculty members are invited to a brief tutorial on some of the Visual Arts Library’s most powerful digital tools, and a short tour showcasing its prized print and multimedia collections. The orientation should last no more than an hour. Refreshments will be served. We look forward to meeting you.
For more information, contact the library at reference@sva.edu.
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As invocation of, but not a promise as to the quantity, quality or types of refreshments that will be served at the Faculty Library Orientation, please enjoy the following pictures from the Picture Collection’s Food – Desserts & Sweets folder:
Individual Strawberry Jam Cakes. Martha Stewart Living, November 2003
Sealtest Candied Apple Ice Cream. 1956
December 1960. Tutti-Frutti Date Pudding!
McCall’s, September 1973
Colors
You may be inclined to disregard The Picture Collection’s Colors folder (pictures of colors?) but if you take the time to delve, you will find a resource that could be of great help to artists seeking inspiration and reference, as well as aid in color theory and color composition. Inside this 79-image folder you will not only find paint swabs and color charts, but also images that show the relation of color through photography, advertisements, and commercial sales. This folder can help an artist choose their pallet for a project. Users can scan hues that they are interested in utilizing and drop them in Photoshop for replication, or color copy selections and concoct a collage physically. A great help for advertising and graphic design students–or really anyone interested in…color…the Colors folder is worth checking out.
Winsor & Newton Ltd.
Dr. Ph. Martin’s Sychromayic Transparent Water Colors
ICI Binding Corporation
House and Garden, July 2000.
‘Vision by Touch’. LIFE Magazine, July 12th, 1964.
Pittsburgh Paints Catalog
Pittsburgh Paints Catalog
Doors
Doors is a category of 60+ images having to do with doors, entryways, doorknobs, and door knockers; the bulk of which are religious doorways and decorated homes from winter greeting cards.
December 1952
Photographer: Harold M. Lambert
September 1955
December 1965
Leaves
Leaves is a 36-image folder depicting the botanical beauty of leaves through photography, advertisements and illustration. The wide range of leaves in this folder make it one of the many in the Visual Arts Picture Collection that can be a helpful aid in drawing reference.
Fortune Magazine, November 1949
Photographer: George Tice
Modern Maturity Magazine, October-November 1967
Photographer: Alfred T. Palmer, National Geographic Magazine
Hair – Facial
Hair – Facial is a 21-picture subcategory of the Picture Collection’s Hair folder–one of the larger folders in the collection (with over 400 images). This folder focuses on beards, mustaches, eyebrow hair, and the absurdities that can occur throughout.
Life Magazine, September 23rd, 1957
Life Magazine, September 23rd, 1957
Life Magazine, April 24th, 1939
SVA Library Picture & Periodicals Collections 