Over thirty pieces from Gemini G.E.L., in California, were donated by Arnold I. Burns, (Class of 1950), former trustee and alumni, and Felice Burns, in honor of his parents. The Burns Collection includes works by world renown artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney, Ken Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, and Ed Ruscha.
Over 15 drawings and prints created by Arnold Bittleman, member of the Union Faculty from 1966-1984 and founder of the Union College Studio Arts program. During his time at Union College, Bittleman taught drawing, painting, design, color theory, photography, and printmaking.
Francisco José de Goya, Los Proverbios, n.d., etching with aquatint, Union College Permanent Collection
The Permanent Collection holdings include prints by Hans Arp, Paul Cezanne, Marc Chagall, Red Grooms, Henry Moore, Jean Miró, and Pablo Picasso.
Featuring nearly 300 antique, scientific instruments and apparatus from as early as the 17th century, Union College’s Scientific Instruments Collection, part of the Permanent Collection, includes items from Union’s “First Purchase,” such as the Orrery and Hadley’s Quadrant, and many other optical devices, aural devices, early telescopes, and microscopes.
The models were made in Paris in the 1830s for French mathematician Théodore Olivier (1793-1853), who devised them to indicate the intersections of surfaces in his teaching of descriptive geometry. This collection of the Olivier Models is Olivier’s original set, and they are the first models of this type that are adjustable.
Comprised of approximately 50 portraits, this collection featured historical figures of America and notable Union figures painted by recognized artists from the 19th century such as Samuel Sexton, Thomas Sully, Henry Inman, Ezra Ames, Waldo and Jewett, and others.