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 Teraoka AIDS Series/Geisha in Bath 2008, Sue Coe Some women on the street sold their babies to get drugs 2006, Valentine Green after Benjamin West Alexander the Great with Philip, his Physician 1772 and Jean-Baptiste Thiebault Bonaparte touchant les pestiférés c.1835.

Masami Teraoka, Japanese (active in U.S.A.) b. 1936

AIDS Series/Geisha in Bath 2008
Polychrome woodblock print

Purchased through the John F. Fulton Fund 2008