Art

Abstract Barbara Rosenthal is an avant-garde interdisciplinary artist, writer, and performer. She explores existential themes through her multimedia artworks, which often take the form of photography, video, text, collage, and performance. This collection documents Barbara Rosenthal’s personal and professional life, spanning from the early 1940s through 2025. It is comprised of materials related to her career as an artist, and professional activities related to her studio practice and business...

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The Paul Klapper Library Art Center officially opened in 1961 as a dedicated space for art exhibition at Queens College and transferred activity to the new Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library in 1988. The Paul Klapper Art Center Records offer evidence of arts and cultural programming at Queens between the 1950s and 1980s through visual representation of shows organized by the Art Center and administrative records related to operations.

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Early records and catalogs of the Queens College Art Collection, which was started in 1957 to provide students with the experience of handling and studying original works of art. The collection later became part of the Godwin-Ternbach Museum when it was established in 1981.

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This collection consists of items related to numerous collaborative art projects directed by Dr. Rikki Asher, professor of arts education at Queens College, between 2000 and 2011. The collection includes color slides, photos, and postcards, published articles, news clippings, printed booklets and programs, sketches, audiocassettes, DVD’s and other miscellanea. Many of the items have been digitized.