Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Avery, Henry Ogden, 1852-1890, André, Jules, Bartholdi, Frédéric Auguste, 1834-1904, and École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France). Atelier Jules André
- Extent:
- 320 drawings, 2 linear feet, and papers
- Language:
- English .
Background
- Scope and Content:
Included are drawings made by Avery while studying under Jules Andre at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and sketchbooks containing sketches made in Paris and on excursions, 1872-1879. Architectural drawings and photographs of architectural drawings for proposed or executed residential and commercial buildings, churches, art galleries, monuments, and other structures, 1880s; competition drawings for public monuments, 1883-1887; experimental studies, 1885, for the pedestal of Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty; and 39 studies and finished drawings, 1888-1890, made for a competition for a memorial for Ulysses S. Grant which he did not win. Also, magazine articles by or about Avery and his work, 1883-1890; obituaries and death announcements, 1890; miscellaneous photographs, certificates, and papers; and invitations, clippings, illustrations, and photographs, circa 1892-1894, relating to the founding of the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia University.
- Biographical / Historical:
Architect. Avery was born in Brooklyn. After studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, he returned to New York and worked in the office of Richard Morris Hunt until starting his own practice in 1883. The Avery Library at Columbia University was founded by his parents in his memory. The library was renamed the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library in 1978.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Architecture -- Competitions
Architecture -- Study and teaching
Architecture -- Sketch-books
Architectural libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
Architecture, Domestic
Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.)
Art museums
Commercial buildings
Dwellings
Monuments
Memorials
Church buildings
Architecture -- United States -- Designs and plans
Statue of Liberty (New York, N.Y.) -- Pedestal
Drawings (visual works)
Photographic prints
architectural drawings (visual works)
Sketchbooks
Architects - Names:
- Avery Library
- Places:
- General Grant National Memorial (New York, N.Y.)
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Permission to publish must be obtained in writing from the Director, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, 1172 Amsterdam Ave., MC 0301, New York, NY 10027.
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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300 Avery Hall1172 Amsterdam Avenue M.C. 0301New York, NY 10027, United States
- CONTACT:
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212) 854-6199avery@library.columbia.edu