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Photo Gallery of 9/20/06 tour of OCW Works in the Snite Museum of Art and Notre Dame Rare Books and Special Collections

TOUR OF OCW WORKS
IN THE
SNITE MUSEUM OF ART
AND
NOTRE DAME RARE BOOKS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

We chose this work for the Africana Studies Program Home page on account of its haunting ambiguity.  We do not know whether this youth is male or female.  Neither do we know whether the posture reveals despair, compassion or deep concentration.  What we do know is that we want to know more, want to understand.  And yet we hesitate, lest our inquiry unduly disrupt that upon which we intrude.
 Portrait of a Youth

David Heath, Portrait of a Youth. 1957-60.
Acquired with funds provided by the Humana Foundation
Endowment for American Art.  Used with Permission.
Untitled - Baptism in the Swamp

Doris Ulmann, Untitled (Baptism in the Swamp). 1929-33.
Gift of Milly Kaeser in honor of Fritz Kaeser.
Image courtesy of the Snite Museum of Art.

 This piece was a natural choice for the home page of Hugh Page's course entitled, "Faith and the African American Experience."  Taken by Ullman, a New York society photographer, on her friend's South Carolina plantation, the photo is part of Ullman's larger effort to document culltures in danger of extinction.  Like the course, Ullman's photo raises many questions about the tensions among faith, culture, tradition and contemporary experience.
  Facades

Aaron Siskind (1903-1991), Facades, from the Harlem Document.
Image courtesy of University of Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art. Used with Permission.
Vellutello's Paradiso X

Alessandro Vellutello's Illustration for Dante's Paradiso X, The Circle of the Sun.
Image courtesy of University of Notre Dame Special Collections

 Velutello's image of theologians encircled by the Sun articulates the goal of Notre Dame's Theology Department:  the search for divine truth within a community of diverse cutures and minds.  Dante's Paradiso X-XIV portrays the theologians as setting aside worldly differences and praising those portions of the truth recognized by their former rivals.  Dancing together within the splendor of the sun, they acknowledge their own errors and those of their followers.

Hear Rare Book Librarian Benjamin Panciera discuss the manuscript from which this image was taken.
  Roman de la Rose

Frontispiece from the Roman de la Rose.
University of Notre Dame Special Collections MS 34, fol. 1r.
France, early 15th century.
Shango Dance Staff

Shango Dance Staff of a Standing Mother Carrying a Child. c. 1900.
Igbomina or Erin Yoruba People, Nigeria.
Courtesy of the University of Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art.
Acquired with funds provided by Dr. and Mrs. R. Stephen Lehman,
Marilynn B. Alsdorf and annonymous benefactors.

  
  Socrates Seeking Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia

Socrates Seeking Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia. c. 1861. Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Courtesy of the University of Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art.
On extended loan from Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin.
Portrait of Young Woman

William Merrit Chase, Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1888.
Courtesy of the University of Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art.
Gift of Mr. Peter C. Reilly. Used with permission.

  
  The Battery

The Battery, 1918. Walter Ufer. Courtesy of the University of Notre Dame Snite Museum of Art.
Gift of the family of William Klauer.
   
   

 
Copyright 2008, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. administrator. (2006, October 25). Snite Tour. Retrieved July 24, 2008, from Notre Dame OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.nd.edu/about/snite-tour. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License