The University of Rochester is a private research university in Rochester, New York, United States. It enrolls approximately 6,800 undergraduates and 5,000 graduate students. 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.
Wolf Kahn was a German-born American painter.
Bruce Landon Davidson is an American photographer. He has been a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, New York City, have been widely exhibited and published. He is known for photographing communities that are usually hostile to outsiders.
Emma Lampert Cooper was a painter from Rochester, New York, described as "a painter of exceptional ability". She studied in Rochester, New York; New York City under William Merritt Chase, Paris at the Académie Delécluse and in the Netherlands under Hein Kever. Cooper won awards at several World's Expositions, taught art and was an art director. She met her husband, Colin Campbell Cooper in the Netherlands and the two traveled, painted and exhibited their works together.
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.
David Vestal was an American photographer of the New York school, a critic, and teacher.
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.
Oreet Ashery is an interdisciplinary artist based in London.
William Ernst Ehrich was an American sculptor, ceramicist, public monument artist, educator, and Work Progress Administration (WPA) supervisor.
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.
Hildegarde Lasell Watson was an American actress, singer, writer and arts patron.
Anne Currier is an American ceramist. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky, but she now resides in Scio, NY. Currier is known for her abstract ceramic works, which play with positive and negative space. Many of her works resemble the human form and architectural elements. In an artist statement, Currier revealed that her work was inspired by Greek and Buddhist sculpture. Currier also expressed that the play with visual planes, as found in the Cubist movement, was an inspiration.
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.
Blue Prism Painting I is a sculpture created by Josiah McElheny in 2014. Crafted out of blue glass, mirror, oak, and plywood, this sculpture is the first installment of his blue prism series, crafted from 2014-2015. Blue Prism Painting I features 11 blue glass shapes, set on blue mirrored shelves in a wooden box frame. It was purchased in 2014 as a part of the permanent collection for the Memorial Art Galley in Rochester, New York.
On a French River is an impressionist oil painting on canvas painted by the artist Emma Lampert Cooper during the late 1800s. It is a landscape painting that depicts a river scene in Parthenay, France. It is part of the permanent collection at the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) in Rochester, New York.Emma Lampert Cooper's husband, Colin Campbell Cooper, also produced similar paintings in the same location when they traveled together. Specifically, the paintings titled Port St. Jacques, Parthenay, France, and A View of a European Village. Both of these paintings have been auctioned in the past and are privately owned.
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.
The Apparition of the Virgin to St. Hyacinth is oil on canvas painting by El Greco, dated between 1605-1610. The late-period painting shows the vision of the Virgin and Child before St. Hyacinth of Poland on the feast day marking the Assumption. This painting belonging to the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York, is one of two paintings which depict this scene. The other version, a larger painting, belongs to the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Three Fujins" was an oil on canvas painting by Hung Liu, a Chinese-American painter born in Changchun, China in 1948, and is currently on display at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, New York. It was finished in 2015 and was put on display at the Memorial Art Gallery in 2016. The dimensions of the painting are 96 x 256 x 12 in.
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 & advisory division for several years as an art adviser. His primary curatorial and research focus is modern and contemporary art.
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.
