Amy Arledge’s copper plate etchings are mainly subjects from nature. “I enjoy the challenge that birds, animals and insects present when trying to convey a detailed sense of feathers, fur or exoskeletons”, Amy said. “My focus is strictly on the subjects, so often I present them in solitude to emphasize their individual character and essence.” […]
Each year the Historical Library receives a number of donations of rare books, manuscripts, archival material, prints, posters, photographs, and instruments. Almost all have been collected by physicians and members of other health-related professions. A major gift received last year – 287 posters donated by collector and historian William Helfand, a retired pharmaceutical company executive […]
The photographs in this exhibit were shot earlier this year in March, during a trip to Europe that Ben Goldberg (YSM Class of 2011) took under the auspices of a new professional ethics program called Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (or FASPE). The trip, led by affiliates of the Museum of […]
Some of the paintings seen in this exhibit were featured at the New Haven Public Library earlier this year.
The Library’s collection of prints and drawings is one of the best known collections of art pertaining to medical subjects. From the original bequest of Clements C. Fry in 1955, the collection continues to grow through gifts and purchase from endowments. A small selection of recent acquisitions is currently on view. Among them are Masami […]
The Medical Historical Library houses one of the world’s finest historical medical collections. The collection contains over 130,000 books, bound manuscripts, journals and pamphlets. This includes 325 incunabula, which are books printed between 1450 and 1500, a wonderful Renaissance, Arabic and Persian manuscript collection along with hundreds of bound manuscripts from the 16th […]
The School of Nursing has a proud tradition, rooted at its most basic level in service to mankind.
“Our aim is not just care of the sick, but better health for all. . . . We care for the sick and for the well; the young and the old; those without voices and those with competing […]
These miniature prints with pen and ink and the series of larger monotype prints in black & white (with a little red) are Oi Fortin’s latest work. This year, her work was accepted in the International Miniature Print Competition at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, CT. The abstract artist Piet Mondrian wrote that […]
On view in The Cushing Rotunda, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, April 23-May 28, 2009.
You are invited to a tour of the exhibit: Thursday, April 30 at 12 noon.
(RSVP florence.gillich@yale.edu or 203 737-1192)
In 1928, Venereal Diseases and the Fight Against Them, a portfolio of forty posters for exhibition and use in public lectures, was distributed throughout the […]
From 1869 to 1914, the prominent British society magazine, Vanity Fair, published color caricatures of famous men and women of the day. For most of those years, Queen Victoria reigned for most of these years and the British Empire was at its height. Beginning in January 1869 with a print of prime minister, […]
Anatomy in Art: Selections from the Clements C. Fry Collection of Prints and Drawings
Currently on view in the library corridor: Fifteen prints and drawings showing anatomists at work together with anatomical illustrations designed for instruction in medicine and in art. The selection is drawn from among the library’s more than seventy works […]
“There are many themes that inspire my artwork”, Nancy L. Black talked about her artwork. “There are choices I do make regarding color, composition, line, subject matter, size and medium”. “I travel in my art”, she said.
New Exhibit at the Medical Library
From Natural Theology to Natural Selection: Celebrating the Darwin Bicentenary
On view February 1 to April 17, 2009
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12, 1809, and the 150th anniversary year of his publication of On the Origin of Species, this rare book exhibit surveys […]
The exhibit is from Tejaswini More, a medical student at Yale. “This exhibit has been inspired by the classic Indian childhood pastime of kite fighting and by the great traditional Indian kite festival know as Makar Sankranti, which falls on January 14th of every year.
Edward Clark Streeter, physician, Collector and historian of Medicine
This small exhibit on display in the Historical Library traces the career of Edward Clark Streeter, M.D. (1874-1947), as physician, collector, and historian of medicine. A friend of Harvey Cushing in Boston, Streeter and Cushing collaborated on exhibits of rare books in conjunction with meetings of […]
“As far as I can remember, I’ve expressed myself through art”, said Chris Ferguson. “At the age of five, I was drawing cartoons. In High school, I received training at the Educational Center for the Arts. It was there where my creativity was nurtured in the different forms of visual arts”.
From ECA, Chris attended the […]
Eight mini-exhibits featuring Anti-VD posters from WWII, Surgery Taught by Stereoscope, Cure by the “Royal Touch,” and more.
This exhibit, prepared by curator Susan Wheeler, explores the range and riches of the Historical Collections through eight separate displays and includes rare books, antique instruments, early prints and photographs, and other objects.
Some highlights –
The popular “Stereo-Clinic” (1911-1913) […]
The Cushing/Whitney Medical Digital Library contains collections of digital images taken from original materials held by the Medical Historical Library or other departments of the Medical School. These collections now include 19th century Lam Qua portraits of Dr. Peter Parker’s patients with large tumors; over two thousand portrait engravings of physicians and scientists; early […]
Psychiatrist Clements C. Fry collected two thousand prints and drawings related to medicine. Bequeathed to the Library in 1955, the collection spans six centuries and represents the works of over six hundred artists.
From among the hundreds of subjects represented in the collection, selections from three subjects which were of particular interest to Fry—mental […]
There have been many medical textbooks whose editions have long outlived their original author, but none has had as long a history and is as widely known as Gray’s Anatomy. Originally published in 1858 under the title Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical, this text was a collaboration between surgeon/anatomist Henry Gray and his friend Dr. […]
