Currently on Exhibit, John Hay Main Gallery:

Joe Stefanelli: The War Years, 1943-1945

John Hay Library, North Gallery
20 Prospect Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
» Library Hours

An exhibition in the North Gallery of the John Hay Library of fifteen original drawings and watercolors done by Joe Stefanelli in the Pacific theater during World War Two. As an artist for YANK magazine, he visited New Guinea and the Philippines, and many of his works were published in the weekly newspaper. These images are on loan to the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection from a private collection.

For further information contact Peter Harrington

Currently on Exhibit (by appointment):


Lincoln, Drawn from Life:
Five Artists, Six Portraits

Lincoln Rooms
John Hay Library
20 Prospect Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
» Library Hours

This Lincoln Bicentennial exhibit allows the viewer to compare and contrast six oil-on-canvas portraits of Lincoln created by five different artists who made first-hand observations and drawings of Lincoln during his lifetime.

The exhibition is open by appointment.

For further information contact hay@brown.edu

Library Exhibits on the Web:
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• Beyond the Moon
  400 Years of Astronomical Observation, 2009
  
  
• BATTLE DOGS
  A Selection of War Dog Art from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, 2009
  
  
• Early Italian Books from the Brown University Library
  An Exhibition in Honor of Romano Prodi, 2009
  
  
• In Celebration of GLBT Pride
  The Richard G. Katzoff Collection, 2009
  
  
• Aimé Césaire Memorial Symposium and Exhibit
  commemorating the life and work of Aimé Césaire, the foremost Black French intellectual-statesman-writer of the 20th and 21st centuries, 2009
  
  
• Environmental History of Hispaniola
  An exhibit curated by Dominique Coulombe and Patricia Figueroa in collaboration with Patrick Sylvain, Max Clermont, Deborah Saint-Vil and Kona Shen, 2009
  
  
• John Hay's Lincoln and Lincoln's John Hay
  Shaping Identity and Public Memory in 19th Century America, 2008
  
  
• Jews and American Comics
  An Exhibition of Popular Art, 2008
  
  
• Child's Play: Abraham Lincoln in Games, Toys and Stories
  A Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibit, 2008
  
  
• Adventures in Boxmaking
  Unusual boxmaking challenges faced by Conservation Technician, Erica Saladino, 2008
  
  
• Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons
  Drawn from a private collection of 20th century propaganda and mounted in the David Winton Bell Gallery and the John Hay Library, 2008
  
  
• The Demon of Melancholy: Genealogies, Modernities
  An exhibit was sponsored by the Department of French Studies, 2008
  
  
• The Politics of Poetry: Walt Whitman and the Public Memory of Abraham Lincoln
  An exhibition in the Rockefeller Library of materials from the Lincoln and Harris Collections, 2008
  
  
• Machado de Assis: Reading the Brazilian Master, Then and Now
  An exhibit sponsored by the Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies, 2008
  
  
• Disturbances: An Exhibit of Select Materials from the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives
  A Celebration of Women's History Month 2008 by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, 2008
  
  
• Notes of Praise, Notes of Dissent: Lincoln and his Political Career in Song
  An exhibition at the Orwig Music Library of materials from the Lincoln Collection, 2008
  
  
• Re-opening the 17th century: Reading and Spectacle in the French Court
  A student project by Maha Atal '08 and Sara Damiano '08 in partial fulfillment of requirements for FREN 1040C "Lire et voir le XVlle siècle aujourd' hui.", 2008
  
  
• Positivism in Brazil
  An exhibition curated by Rex Nielson and Patricia Figueroa, 2007
  
  
• Baudelaire & the Arts
  An Exhibition in Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Publication of Les Fleurs du mal, 2007
  
  
• Selling in Wartime: Advertisements in The Sphere, 1914-1918
  An exhibition from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, 2007
  
  
• Rediscovered Map Collection of the John Hay Library
  Providence Journal Article, 2007
  
  
• Venus in Chains: Representations of Sex and Slavery in the Caribbean Basin
  Exhibit Essay, 2007
  
  
• Don Quijote de la Mancha: 1605-2005
  A celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha, 2005
  
  
• Broadway: The American Musical
  An Exhibition from the Collections of the John Hay Library, 2005
  
  
• Remembering Fritz Pollard and the African American Experience at Brown
  An Exhibition in Honor of Pollard's Induction into the Professional Football Hall of Fame, 2005
  
  
• Queen Victoria's Christmas Gift to John Brown, 1870
  Focus on the Collections, No. 9, 2004
  
  
• Street Scenes of Paris in the 19th Century: from the Comic to the Tragic
  An Exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, 2004
  
  
• Remains of a Medieval Italian Antiphonal
  Focus on the Collections, No.8, 2003
  
  
• Celebrating 125 Years of Brown Football
  Items from the Edward North Robinson Collection of Brown Athletics and the Brown Athletic Department, 2003
  
  
• Cultural Essence Over the Centuries
  An Exhibition from the East Asian Collection, 2003
  
  
• The Church Collection
  An Exhibition from holdings of the John Hay Library, 2003
  
  
• Teaching the Arts of the Book
  Work by students of Walter Feldman 1980-2003, 2003
  
  
• Brown Seniors 'Crack' Cuneiform Tablets
  Focus on the Collections, No.7, 2002
  
  
• Landino's Horace - Tasso's Horace - Horace at Brown
  Focus on the Collections, No.6, 2002
  
  
• Yiddish Sheet Music
  From the collections of Brown University Library, 2002
  
  
• Khrushchev and Khrushchev: From the Kremlin to Brown University
  Photographs, memoirs, and publications of Nikita and Sergei Khrushchev, 2002
  
  
• Langston Hughes: The Black Bard at 100
  An exhibition from the collections of Brown Univesity Library in celebration of Black History Month, 2002
  
  
• Remembering 'Herblock': An original drawing by Herbert Block in the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
  Focus on the Collections, No.5, 2001
  
  
• Dupee Fireworks Collection: Recent Additions
  Focus on the Collections, No.4, 2001
  
  
• Carriers' Addresses in Nineteenth Century America
  Focus on the Collections, No.3, 2001
  
  
• Remembering Brown Sports
  Items from the Edward North Robinson Collection of Brown Athletics, 2001
  
  
• Education for Everybody
  Brown's Innovation and Influence in Collegiate Education
  An exhibition celebrating Ruth J. Simmons Inauguration as Brown's 18th President, 2001
  
  
• George Orwell Materials at Brown University
  An Exhibition from the Collection of Daniel J. Leab & The Manuscript of Orwell's 1984, 2001
  
  
• Leaves of an Hour
  Developing Literary and Popular Culture Collections at Brown University Library, 2001
  
  
• 40 Years of Burning Deck Press
  An exhibit from the Burning Deck Archives & the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, 2001
  
  
• The Robert S. and Margaret A. Ames Collection of Illustrated Books
  Nineteenth century illustration techniques & the literature of travel and exploration, 2001
  
  
• The Art of Yank Magazine: The World War Two Drawings of Robert Greenhalgh
  Focus on the Collections, No.2, 2000
  
  
• The Library's First Book, William Williams & the Williams Table
  Focus on the Collections, No. 1, 2000
  
  
• The Quintessential G.B.S.
  Selections from the Sidney P. Albert - George Bernard Shaw Collection, 2000
  
  
• Imamu Amiri Baraka
  An Exhibition from the Collections of the John Hay Library, 2000
  
  
• From Euclid to Newton
  An Exhibition in Honor of the 1999 Conference of the Mathematical Association of America, 1999
  
  
• Draner's Military Caricatures
  Military caricatures after designs by Jules Draner, 1998
  
  
• Three For Three Million
  Fireworks, Mexican History, Digital Reference Collections, 1997
  
  
• The Night Before Christmas
  An exhibition from the collections of the John Hay Library, 1997
  
  
• Celebrating Harper
  An exhibition in honor of Michael S. Harper, 1997
  
  
• "Of the Poison Brand"
  Two Centuries of Sources for The Study of Alcohol and Alcoholism, 1997
  
  
• Dreams of the Past
  19th Century Color Lithographic Sheet Music Covers, 1996
  
  
• She is More to be Pitied than Censured
  Women, Sexuality and Murder in 19th century America, 1996
  
  
• Artists in Uniform
  The World War II Experience, 1995