SLIDE SETS & KITS

Slide Sets & Kits include sets created by the Memorial Art Gallery, major museums and cultural organizations, as well as commercially published sets. Slide sets and kits are generally available for 4-week loan to Rochester area teachers. There is a minimum $5 charge for each broken or missing slide, or lost part of sets or kits.

Slide sets related to the exhibitions and permanent collection of the Memorial Art Gallery are listed below. Permanent Collection slide sets are coordinated with Gallery tours. For a current list of all other slide sets and kits in the Library collection:

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MAG Slide Sets

20th-Century African-American Art (exhibition at MAG)
About Face: Copley's Portrait of a Colonial American Silversmith

Coordinates with a tour of MAG's collection; includes extensive lesson plans. Also available online.

African Art
After Columbus: the first hundred years of mapping America (exhibition at MAG)
Age of Rembrandt (NGA) (18 slides + 1 cassette + text)

Presents a selection of portraits, genre paintings, still lifes, and landscapes painted by the leading artists in Holland's "Golden Age."

American Art: Colonial Period (17th-18th c.)
American Art: Early Republic (1790-1850)
American Art: Gilded Age (1850-1900)
Art & Architecture of Ancient Greece
Art of Albert Paley: Rochester sculptor
Art of Ancient Greece
Art of Ancient Rome
Art of Egypt (Elementary Level)
Art of the July Monarchy (France 1830-1848) (exhibition at MAG)
Ceramic Figures from Ancient America (exhibition at MAG)
Chinese and Japanese Art
Christmas Story (includes audio cassette)
Civil War Drawings by Winslow Homer
Contemporary American Arts & Crafts (exhibition at MAG)
Contemporary Art from the San Diego Museum Collection (exhibition at MAG)
Egyptian Art
English Art (18th & early 19th c.) (no written commentary available)
Erie Canal
European paintings (1900-1940)
Folk art of North India
French Art
Furniture by Wendell Castle (exhibition at MAG)
Genesee Journey (coordinates with a tour of MAG's collection)
George Segal: the Holocaust (exhibition at MAG)
Head, Heart and Hand: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters (exhibition at MAG)
The Hermitage Group of St. Petersburg: Paintings from the Russian Soul (20th C. Russian artists)
Honoring Heroes: American History and Public Sculpture
Hudson River School: American 19th century painting
Impressionism: France, Europe & America (coordinates with a tour of MAG's collection)
Impressionist's New York (exhibition at MAG)
In Medusa's Gaze: Still Life Paintings from Upstate New York Museums
Islamic architecture
Islamic art
Italian Painting (1300-1800) (exhibition at MAG)
Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass & Harriet Tubman Series of Narrative Paintings (1938-1940) (exhibition at MAG)
Kuba Royal Art: Traditional Zairian Masterpieces from the collection of the Hampton University Museum (exhibition at MAG)
Late Antique & Early Christian Art includes audio cassette)
Latin American Art (no written commentary available)
Learning to Look: An Introduction to the Collection (K-3) (coordinates with a tour of MAG's collection)
Learning to Look: An Introduction to the Collection (4-6) (coordinates with a tour of MAG's collection)
Literature and Art for Young Children
Look at US History: Civil War
Many Faces, Many Places (Coordinates with a tour of MAG's collection.)
Medieval Art
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (available online only.)
Multicultural Masks
Mythology
Myths, Stories and Legends (Coordinates with a tour of MAG's collection.)
North American Indian Art
On the Road: selections from the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art (exhibition at MAG)
Passion for the Past: The Collection of Bertram K. & Nina Fletcher Little at Cogswell's Grant (American Folk Art)
Passport to the Past (Coordinates with a tour of MAG's collection. Also available online.)
The Philadelphia Ten: A Women's Artist Group 1917-1945
Qin Dynasty Pottery Warriors and Horses
Renaissance Art
Renaissance Art in Italy
Sites of Recollection: Four Altars and a Rap Altar (exhibition at MAG)
Treasures of Early Irish Art (no written commentary available)
Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth
Winslow Homer in the 1890's : Prout's Neck Observed (exhibition at MAG)