Exhibition Highlights

Aaron Copeland

• Margery Smith. Aaron Copland, ca. 1961. Photographic print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (86) Digital ID # ppmsca-13454 Courtesy of the MacDowell Colony
• The cast of Billy the Kid, featuring Erick Hawkins, Eugene Loring, and Lew Christensen, center, 1938. Photograph. George Platt Lynes. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. © Estate of George Platt Lynes. (87) Digital ID #mc0087
• Aaron Copland. Billy the Kid. Autograph full score, 1938. Aaron Copland Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. ©1978 The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., sole licensee (33) Digital ID #mc0033

Alone Together

• Clemens Kalischer. Kay Boyle reads on her porch at The MacDowell Colony, ca. 1960. Gelatin silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Clemens Kalischer © (58) Digital ID #ppmsca-13441 © Clemens Kalischer
• Kay Boyle. “For James Baldwin,” from Collected Poems of Kay Boyle. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1991 . General Collections, Library of Congress (59) Digital ID #mc0059p1, #mc0059p2
  Copyright©1991 by Kay Boyle. Used by permission of Copper Canyon Press external link. All rights reserved.
• James Baldwin. Giovanni's Room. New York: Dial Press, 1956. First edition. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (92) Digital ID #mc0092
• Bernice Perry. MacDowell Colony Fellows, 1954. Gelatin silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (51) Digital ID #ppmsca-13440 Courtesy of the MacDowell Colony
• Milton Avery. Dancer, 1954. Woodcut. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (42) Digital ID #ppmsca-13436
  2007 Milton Avery Trust/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Dorothy Heyward and Dubose Heward

• Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward. Porgy. Original typescript, copyright deposit, August 2, 1926. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund (35) Digital ID #mc0035
• Production shot from Porgy and Bess, 1935. Copyprint. Rouben Mamoulian Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Bequest of Azadia Mamoulian (88) Digital ID #mc0088
• DuBose Heyward. "Respite: to the MacDowell Colony." Typescript poem, [n.d.]. Edward and Marian MacDowell Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund (37) Digital ID #mc0037

Leonard Bernstein

• Bernice Perry. Leonard Bernstein at The MacDowell Colony, 1962. Gelatin silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (60) Digital ID #ppmsca-13442
• Leonard Bernstein. “Gospel” from Mass, 1971. Autograph score. Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. By permission of The Leonard Berstein Office, Inc.(61) Digital ID #mc0061
  By permission of The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc.
• Leonard Bernstein. Notes on Mass, made at The MacDowell Colony, 1970. Index cards. Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. By permission of Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company, LLC (62) Digital ID #mc0062
  By permission of Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company, LLC

Our Town

• Thornton Wilder. Our Town, a Play in Three Acts. New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1938. First edition. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (31) Digital ID # mc0031 By permission of Tappan Wilder. All rights reserved.
• L. R. Burleigh. Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1886. Troy, New York: L.R. Burleigh, 1886. Map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (30) Digital ID # pm004900
• Bernice Perry. Thornton Wilder and Marian MacDowell, 1952. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division (13) Digital ID #mc0013 Courtesy of The MacDowell Colony
• Ned Rorem. Our Town. Autograph short score, 2004. Ned Rorem Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. © Copyright Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. (79) Digital ID #mc0079
• Ric Cradick. Final dress rehearsal for the world premiere of Our Townby the Indiana University Opera Theater, February 24, 2006. Photograph. Ned Rorem Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of Indiana University Opera Theater (82) Digital ID #mc0082 Courtesy of Indiana University Opera Theater

History

• Edward and Marian MacDowell on a walking tour in Switzerland, 1886. Gelatin silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (1) Digital ID #ppmsca-13426
• Edward MacDowell, ca. 1903. Gelatin silver print. A.P. Schmidt Company Archives, Music Division, Library of Congress (2) Digital ID #mc0002
• Edward MacDowell. Indian Suite, op. 48, 1896. Autograph score. Edward and Marian MacDowell Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (4) Digital ID #mc0004
• The Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Metropolitan Opera House, January 23, 1896. Concert program. Samuel P. Warren Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (5) Digital ID #mc0005
• The Mendelssohn Glee Club at the estate of Commodore Elias Cornelius Benedict in Greenwich, Connecticut, 1897. Photograph. Edward and Marian MacDowell Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (6) Digital ID #mc0006
• The Peterborough Pageant, 1910. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (9) Digital ID #ppmsca-13455
• “Pageant of Peterborough,” 1910. Program booklet. Edward and Marian MacDowell Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (8) Digital ID #mc0008
• Mrs. Edward MacDowell: piano recitals of MacDowell music, ca. 1920. Publicity brochure. Edward and Marian MacDowell Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (12) Digital ID #mc0012
• Railroad map of New Hampshire, 1894. Copyprint. Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress (81) Digital ID #rr002540

Colony Traditions

• Tombstones from Alexander Studio, 1954–1958; and Veltin Studio, 1936–1952. Courtesy of The MacDowell Colony (89.1 and 89.2)
• Julia Jacquette. MacDowell Colony Picnic Basket, 1998. Courtesy of The MacDowell Colony (91)
• Margaret Widdemer. Marian MacDowell delivering lunch baskets, ca. 1919. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (11) Digital ID #ppmsca-13428

Early Years

• Amy Beach. “A Hermit Thrush at Morn,” 1921. Autograph score. Arthur P. Schmidt Company Archives, Music Division, Library of Congress (14) Digital ID #mc0014 Courtesy of the MacDowell Colony
• F. Tolles Chamberlin standing outside Adams Studio, ca. 1914. Gelatin silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (16) Digital ID #ppmsca-13430
• Glenn O. Coleman. Hurdy Gurdy Ballet, 1928. Lithograph. The Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (17) Digital ID #ppmsca-13431
• Edwin Arlington Robinson and former rabbi-turned-author Lewis Browne at The MacDowell Colony, ca. 1927. Photograph. Edward and Marian MacDowell Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (18) Digital ID #mc0018
  Courtesy of the MacDowell Colony
• Edwin Arlington Robinson. “Lancelot and Guinevere,” 1917. Facsimile of autograph manuscript. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (19) Digital ID #mc0019
• Grant T. Reynard. Down the Hill, 1934. Etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (24) Digital ID #ppmsca-13432
• Willa Cather. Death Comes for the Archbishop.First edition. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (21) Digital ID #mc0021
• Portrait of Willa Cather, [n.d.]. Photograph. Edward and Marian MacDowell Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (23) Digital ID #mc0023 Courtesy of the MacDowell Colony
• Prentiss Taylor. Scottsboro Limited, November, 1931. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division (32) Digital ID #ppmsca-13434
• Thornton Wilder to Marian MacDowell, April 30, 1928. Holograph letter. Papers of Marian MacDowell, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of The Wilder Family (26) Digital ID #mc0026 By permission of Tappan Wilder. All rights reserved.
• Thornton Wilder. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First edition. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (25) Digital ID #mc0025 By permission of Tappan Wilder. All rights reserved.

Mid-Twentieth Century

• Ernest Hubert Deines. Gathering Summer's Bounty, 1940. Wood engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (36) Digital ID #ppmsca-13435 [Image not available online]
• Elizabeth White. Birches and Pines, MacDowell Colony Woodland. 1937. Etching and drypoint. Prints and Photographs Division (at MacDowell 1933-34; 1936) (28) Digital ID #ppmsca-13433 © Sumter County Gallery of Art, Sumter, South Carolina
• Jessie Tarbox Beals. Birches at the Sprague Smith Studio, 1925. Copyprint. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (29) Digital ID #ppmsca-13470-0014
• John Von Wicht to Marian MacDowell, February 6, 1956. Holograph letter. Edward and Marian MacDowell Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (45) Digital ID #mc0045 Courtesy of the MacDowell Colony
• Gordon N. Converse. Artist John Von Wicht at The MacDowell Colony, January 1956. Gelatin silver print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (46) Digital ID #ppmsca-13439
  Gordon N. Converse © 1956 The Christian Science Monitor (www.csmonitor.com external link). All rights reserved.
• Victor Kraft. Portrait of Lukas Foss, [n.d.]. Aaron Copland Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (38) Digital ID #mc0038
• Lukas Foss to Serge Koussevitzky, July 14, 1947. Holograph letter. Serge Koussevitzky Archive, Music Division, Library of Congress (39) Digital ID #mc0039
• Portrait of Alec Waugh at The MacDowell Colony, ca. 1958. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (48) Digital ID #mc0048
• Alec Waugh. Island in the Sun. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1955. General Collections, Library of Congress (49) Digital ID #mc0049
• Jan Gelb. Channels of Night, 1957. Color etching and relief. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (43)
  Digital ID #ppmsca-13437 Courtesy Julie Heller Gallery.
  
• Galway Kinnell. Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First edition. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (52) Digital ID #mc0052 Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin
• Ernst Toch. Notturno, 1953. Autograph score. Music Division, Library of Congress (54) Digital ID #mc0054
  By permission of the Estate of Ernst Toch
• Portrait of Ernst Toch, ca. 1957. Photograph. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (55) Digital ID #mc0055
  Courtesy of the MacDowell Colony
• Thornton Wilder and Louise Talma examine their opera, The Alcestiad, ca. 1958. Photograph. Records of The MacDowell Colony, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (56) Digital ID #mc0056 Courtesy of the MacDowell Colony
• Louise Talma. The Alcestiad, Act III. Autograph score. Louise Talma Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (57) Digital ID #mc0057
• Janet Fish. Preserved Peaches, 1975. Color lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (65) Digital ID #ppmsca-10485 Courtesy of Janet Fish
• Benny Andrews. Friends, 1972. Intaglio. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (63.1)
  Digital ID #ppmsca-13443 [Image not available online]

Contemporary: 1980s to Present

• Marion Belanger. “Home Depot Sunset,” 2004 from the Everglades series. Photographic print, color. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (76) Digital ID #ppmsca-13452 Courtesy of Marion Belanger
• Joanna Eldredge Morrissey. Meredith Monk at The MacDowell Colony, Copyprint. Courtesy: The MacDowell Colony (94) Digital ID #mc0094 Courtesy of The MacDowell Colony
• Meredith Monk. Three Heavens and Hells, Autograph score. Music Division, Library of Congress (95) Digital ID #mc0095
  “Three Heavens and Hells” music composed by Meredith monk, words by Tennessee Reed, score hand written by Meredith monk © 1992
• Tomie Arai. Laundryman's Daughter, 1988. Color silkscreen. Prints and Photographs Division (69) Digital ID #ppmsca-13446
  Courtesy of Tomie Arai
• Cynthia Back. It Was Reported Over and Over, from the Manhattan Graphics Center memorial portfolio September 11, 2002. Etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (68) Digital ID #ppmsca-01751 Courtesy of Cynthia Back
• Brendan Tapley. MacDowell Colony Fellows and staff form a peace circle on September 11, 2001. Copyprint. Courtesy of The MacDowell Colony (83) Digital ID #mc0083 Courtesy of the MacDowell Colony
• Rosalind Solomon. “Silence Equals Death,” 1987, from her Portraits in the Time of AIDS. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (74) Digital ID #ppmsca-13450 © 1987 Rosalind Solomon.  All rights reserved.
• Michael Chabon. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. New York: Random House, 2000. General Collections, Library of Congress (90) Digital ID #mc0090
• Sandy Gellis. Great Blue Heron, from The Bird Project : Plain Series, 1996. Etching (diptych). Printed by and in collaboration with Julia D'Amario. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (78) Digital ID #ppmsca-13453 Courtesy of Sandy Gellis
• Linda Smogor. Spalding Gray at The MacDowell Colony, 1988. Copyprint. Courtesy of The MacDowell Colony (84)Digital ID #mc0084 Courtesy of The MacDowell Colony
• Spalding Gray. Impossible Vacation. New York: Knopf, 1992. First edition. General Collections, Library of Congress (85) Digital ID #mc0085
• Robert Cottingham. One Way, 1984. Color lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division (64) Digital ID #ppmsca-13444
  Courtesy of Robert Cottingham

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