Permanent Collection
The Permanent Collection holdings include prints by Hans Arp, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Red Grooms, Henry Moore, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso.
Modern Prints
Works on Paper: Modern Prints
Paul Cézanne, Portrait De Guillaumin, n.d., etching on paper, Union College Permanent Collection.
Portrait De Guillaumin
A line drawing of seated man wearing bowlers hat.
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Works on Paper: Pre-Modern Era Prints
The earliest fine art print held by the Permanent Collection is a block print from the Nuremberg Chronicles by Michael Wolgemut from the late 15th century, which displays an early example of the then new technology – printmaking. Other standouts in our pre-modern collection include notable works by Corot, Daumier, Goya, Manet, Millet, Piranesi, and Tiepolo.
Jean-Francois Millet, La Grande Bergère, 1862, etching on laid paper, Union College Permanent Collection.
La Grande Bergère
A shepherdess knitting while standing under trees in the foreground with a dog and sheep in the background.
Édouard Manet, La petite fille tenant un bébé, 1861-62, etching on laid paper with deckled edges, Union College Permanent Collection.
La petite fille tenant un bébé
A young girl tending a baby with her head turned away from the viewer.
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Honoré Daumier, Ayant la retention de faire partie du beau monde (from Les Bons Bourgeois), 1847, lithograph on paper, Union College Permanent Collection.
Ayant la retention de faire partie du beau monde (from Les Bons Bourgeois)
A man holding woman's hand as they walk through a curtain that reveals more people in the background.
Francisco José de Goya, Los Proverbios, n.d., etching with aquatint, Union College Permanent Collection.
Los Proverbios
A woman standing on a horse performing a "trompe l'oeil" trick in front of a crowd of spectators at a Spanish carnival.
Michael Wolgemut, Untitled (folio CCLVII), 1493, woodcut on paper, Union College Permanent Collection.
Untitled (folio CCLVII)
A seated, barefoot man with a beard and shoulder-length hair, is wearing a clasped, long robe; he holds a thin stick in his left hand and a jug.
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Édouard Vuillard, La Vie Muette, ca. 1894, print, gift of William B. Jaffe, Union College Permanent Collection, x2009.19 UCPC.
La Vie Muette
A program for La View Muette at L'Oeuvre on November 26, 1894.
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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Smith’s Yard, 1895, lithograph, Union College Permanent Collection.
Smith’s Yard
Looking into the blacksmith's shop with two figures on the left and two horses on the right with the horses' backs facing towards the viewer.
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Untitled Portrait, n.d., etching on laid paper, Union College Permanent Collection.
Untitled Portrait
Etching on laid paper.
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Felix Bracquemond, Swallows in Flight, ca. 1884, etching on laid paper, Union College Permanent Collection.
Swallows in Flight
Landscape scene with birds flying over river and river bank with trees.
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Sir Francis Seymour Haden, Cowdray with Geese, 1882, etching, Union College Permanent Collection.
Cowdray with Geese
Cowdray Castle ruins in the background; pastoral scene with geese or ducks and livestock in foreground and middle ground.
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Adriaen Collaert, Slaughter of the Innocents, n.d., engraving on laid paper, Union College Permanent Collection.
Slaughter of the Innocents
Engraving on laid paper.
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Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Environs de Rome, 1866, etching on laid paper, Union College Permanent Collection.
Environs de Rome
Dark trees in foreground with a softer outline of a hill and building in the background.
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