The University of Rochester is a private research university in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded in 1850 and moved into its current campus, next to the Genesee River in 1955. With approximately 30,000 full-time employees, the university is the largest private employer in Upstate New York and the 7th largest in all of New York State.
Jonas Lie was a Norwegian-born American painter and teacher.
Wolf Kahn was a German-born American painter.
Royal Bailey Farnum was an American art educator who served in administrative roles in various public and private educational institutions in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island during the first half of the 20th century.
Jim Goldberg is an American artist and photographer, whose work reflects long-term, in-depth collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations.
Sarah Brayer is an American artist who works in both Japan and the United States. She is internationally known for her poured washi paperworks, aquatint and woodblock prints. In 2013 Japan's Ministry of Culture awarded Sarah its Bunkacho Chokan Hyosho for dissemination of Japanese culture abroad through her creations in Echizen washi. She currently resides in Kyoto, Japan and New York, U.S.A.
Emily Sibley Watson was a Rochester, New York philanthropist and patron of the arts. Youngest child of Western Union founder Hiram Sibley and Elizabeth Tinker Sibley, she grew up in a family that valued service, faith, and the arts. She is best known as the founder of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, and patron of Rochester's Hochstein School of Music & Dance. With her mother, she was a major supporter of the Homeopathic Hospital.
Joan Lyons is an American artist known for her work in photography, printmaking, and book arts. She is the Founding Director of Rochester's Visual Studies Workshop Press.
Anne Currier is an American ceramist. Currier is known for her abstract ceramic works, which play with positive and negative space.
Josephine Tota was an Italian American painter known for her surrealist paintings featuring egg tempura on wood panels.
Timothy Bradley Begay was an American Navajo painter who lived in Chinle, Arizona. Begay has exhibited his work across the country, including at the Museum of New Mexico and the Philbrook Museum of Art. Some of his works are in the permanent collection of institutions including Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester and the Woolaroc Museum. He utilizes media such as watercolor to paint figurative scenes, often showing people with livestock.
The Wanderer is an oil painting on canvas created by the German artist George Grosz. The painting was completed in 1943 and is currently on display at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York.
Jonathan P. Binstock is an American art historian, curator and museum administrator, and the director of The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., since 2023. He previously served as director of the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York, and as a curator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He also worked for Citibank's art finance and advisory division for several years as an art adviser. His primary curatorial and research focus is modern and contemporary art.
Unfinished Portrait of Nathaniel Hurd is an oil painting created by John Singleton Copley, likely created in 1765. It measures 29 3/8 inches by 24 5/8 inches. The portrait depicts Bostonian silversmith, Nathaniel Hurd, who lived from 1730 to 1777, and was part of a notable silversmith family.
Cluster #13 is oil on canvas painting by Ida Kohlmeyer with the dimensions of 44.5 x 50 in. It is part of a larger body of work, known as the cluster series. The Cluster series is one of her 4 main bodies of work. The painting is located at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York. It was acquired as a gift from Philip Alan Selwyn and Karen Peller Selwyn. The painting adheres to Kohlmeyer's style of painting, which draws from abstract expressionism.
The Garden of The Hesperides is a watercolor and mixed-media painting by M. Louise Stowell, in 1900. Influenced by Japanese art aesthetics, mysticism, and Symbolism, this piece depicts the mythology of the Hesperides while referencing Christianity, and potential Spirituality ideologies. Originally owned by Margaret Woodbury Strong, it is now a part of the Memorial Art Gallery's permanent Collection, and displayed in the "Faithfully Thought Out": The Artistic Collaborations of M. Louise Stowell and Harvey Ellis exhibition in 2024.
Creation Myth is a series of limestone and bronze sculptures created by Tom Otterness for the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG)'s Centennial Sculpture Park in 2012.
The Clown is a half-length portrait by American artist George Condo, painted in oil on linen. Measuring 38 inches by 42 inches, the painting depicts a distorted human-like clown figure wearing a furry, colorful polka-dotted outfit. In 2014, the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) in Rochester, New York added this piece to its permanent collection, made possible by the Marion Stratton Gould Fund. In conversation, Condo has likened this painting to “an insane Benjamin Franklin” and considered it to be the most pathetic self-portrait he could imagine.
Morning on the River is an oil painting by Norwegian American artist Jonas Lie, painted in the beginning of the 20th century from 1911 to 1912. It is now in the permanent collections of the Memorial Art Gallery at Rochester, NY, United States of America as a gift from Ruth Sibley Gade in memory of James G. Averell.
Dawn's Landscape XL is a wooden sculpture created by Louise Nevelson in 1975. It currently is held by the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York.It ranks 40th in the series and Louise Nevelson completed all 44 pairs between 1975 and 1976.
The fountain court in the main gallery
The 1968 entrance—still used as an entrance for group tours
The M&T Bank ballroom
The Vanden Brul pavilion serves as a passage between the 1968 wing and the Cutler Union.
