Materials Available through Other Campus Departments

Architectural/Building Materials

Logan Center Shop

Materials are intended largely for DoVA undergrad students to purchase for class assignments, though scrap material is readily available. Please contact Peter Reese (Shop Manager) with any questions.

Wood

  • BC plywood (.5” and .75”) - lower grade than AC, contains more knots and whorls
  • AC plywood (.5” and .75”)
  • Medium density fibreboard (.5” and .75”)
  • 10’ 2x4s are always on hand
  • Baltic Birch plywood (.5” and .75”)
  • 1x8 poplar exclusively for building painting stretchers
  • rotating group of hardwoods that are available for purchase: oak, maple, ash, mulberry, elm, and honey locust

Metal  

  • 1” x 16ga square steel tubing
  • 1” x 16ga round steel tubing
  • .25” and .125” round steel bar stock
  • 16ga or 18ga sheet steel

Other 

  • Clay
  • casting plaster
  • cardboard sheets
  • sheets of insulating foam
  • Other random miscellaneous materials as they come available

Prints

Engraving

Multiple engravings in Special Collections

Multiple examples in the Smart Museum

Aquatint

Special Collections

  • Salloch, William and Marianne, Collection of Prints and Drawings: “People with Books.” , 1500-1814.
    • Box 1, J. C. Stadler, after F. Mackenzie, "Library of Christ Church, Oxford," aquatint, from Rudolph Ackerman, History of the University of Oxford, London, 1814. View digitized documents.
  • R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. Archive, 1844-2005
    • Multiple aquatints
  • Hutchins, Maude Phelps McVeigh. Collection, 1930-1946

Smart Museum: multiple examples

Mezzotint

Smart Museum of Art: multiple examples of mezzotints

Drypoint

Special Collections

  • Salloch, William and Marianne, Collection of Prints and Drawings: “People with Books.” , 1500-1814
    • Rembrandt Harmensz van Ryn (Netherlands, 1606-1669), "Jan Uytenbogaert, Preacher of the Arminian Sect of Remonstrants," etching with drypoint, dated 1635. View digitized documents. 
  • Sondheim, Harry B. and Branka J. Jewish Heritage Collection, late 15th century-early 20th century
    • Folder 1.14, Shabbat ausgang (Havdalah), Rare early work by Jakob Steinhardt, Drypoint, Behrens 130, fine impression on thick woven paper, signed and dated in pencil, 1921. (Item IL2007.1.101 on Sondheim inventory)

Smart Museum: multiple examples

Etching 

Special Collections: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company. Archive, 1844-2005

  • Multiple etchings

Smart Museum: multiple examples

Woodcut 

Special Collections: multiple examples of woodcuts

Smart Museum: multiple examples

Intaglio

Special Collections: Hutchins, Maude Phelps McVeigh. Collection, 1930-1946

Smart Museum: multiple examples

Lithograph

Special Collections: multiple examples

Smart Museum: multiple examples

Paper

Vellum

Special Collections: multiple examples of vellum manuscripts from ca. 13th century through 20th century

Smart Museum: multiple examples

Parchment

Smart Museum: two examples

 

Photography

Special Collections

  • John Maloof Collection of Vivian Maier circa 1900-2010: still and motion picture cameras, lenses, filter, and other camera accessories, as well as period boxes that had been used to store her photographic prints before the latter were added to the collection. It includes items from the 1920s or 1930s to 1983

 

Fibers

Special Collections

  • Paper Dolls Collection mid 19th century: magazine and wallpaper samples
  • Principes de fabrique pour les étoffes de soie 1848-1856: Manuscript study on the weaving, design, and production of silk fabric. Illustrated with charts, pattern templates, and fabric samples, pasted onto heavy cream paper.
  • Théorie de la fabrication des étoffes de soie 1855-1860: Manuscript study on various types of silk fabrics. Illustrated with 385 drawings of various weaves, and 101 fabric samples, pasted onto heavy cream paper.
  • Friedrich Klebs, Zürcherische Seidenwebschule : I Curs : Composition & Décomposition 1888-1889: Loose-leaved pattern book in Swiss-German on the design and production of silk fabric. Includes "Einzuge": hand-drawn, colored charts of jacquard weaves with manuscript explanation; and "Decomposition": 103 samples of silk fabric with manuscript explanation.

 

Other Materials Teaching Collections on Campus

Special Collections

  • Manuscripts
  • Incunabula
  • Printing press materials (type, forms)
  • Uncut sheets

 

Smart Museum