Exhibitions
Due to the renovation of Stetson Hall and construction of an adjacent library/technology center, the Chapin Library has moved its offices and reading room until at least summer 2013 to apartments in the Southworth Schoolhouse. These spaces, however, do not include exhibition facilities. In the interim, the Founding Documents of the United States are on temporary display in the Williams College Museum of Art, along with occasional selections of other Chapin Library holdings. Through 30 October 2009, a selection from the Bailey collection of books on bees and beekeeping, recently acquired by the Chapin Library, is on display on the main level of Sawyer Library.
Past Exhibitions
This list includes only exhibitions presented in recent years:
- Four Centuries of American Women: From Pocohontas to Augusta Read Thomas
- Pauline Baynes: Illustrations for Children’s Books
- George Washington: A Life to Be Celebrated, a Death to Be Remembered
- Ruskin and His Age: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the Death of John Ruskin, 1819–1900
- Seeing the Orients: Europe and America Discover the Middle East
- Design Envisions/Envisioning Design
- Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Printers: Handprinted Books from the Hogarth Press
- Herman Melville: A Retrospective of His Works on the 150th Anniversary of Moby-Dick HANDLIST (PDF)
- Eating and Etiquette in the 19th Century: Selections from the Eleanor T. Fordyce Collection of American Cookbooks
- North: Travels to the Arctic and Other Northern Lands
- Samuel Butler: The Mid-Victorian Modern Revisited
- Culture, Society, and Disease
- Reading Material: The Incarnation of Ideas
- The Heavens Revealed: Classics of Astronomy from Ptolemy to Copernicus to Einstein from the Collection of Professor Jay M. Pasachoff HANDLIST (PDF)
- 1753–1754–1755: Culture and Conflict at the Birth of Williamstown
- John DePol: American Wood Engraver
- Churchill: The Life of a Politician and Author HANDLIST (PDF)
- The Book as a Work of Art: The Cranach Press of Count Harry Kessler
- Theodore Roosevelt: In His Own Right, 1904–2004 HANDLIST (PDF)
- “She Loved All Great Formal, Noble Things”: A Willa Cather Miscellany
- Don Quixote: A Quatercentenary Celebration of the Man of La Mancha
- Herman Rosse: Designs for Theatre HANDLIST (PDF)
- American Moments, 1668–1973: Selected from Gifts to Williams College by J. Brooks Hoffman, M.D., Class of 1940
- Gunnar A. Kaldewey: Artist Books for a Global World (4 exhibitions)
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected by Robert P. Fordyce, Class of 1956 HANDLIST (PDF)
- The Haystack’s Soil HANDLIST (PDF)
- Nature’s Vast Frame: Natural Science and Poetry before Darwin and the “Origin of Species” HANDLIST (PDF)
- Lewis and Clark, the Louisiana Territory, and On to the Columbia
- Jack Kerouac and the Beats: Fifty Years of On the Road
- Omega Lives: The Omega Workshops and the Hogarth Press HANDLIST (PDF)