a question of imagination and taste - exhibition photography

gallery with white walls and wood floor; various photos, blueprints, etc hang on the walls, along with red and brown linear staircase designs making V-shaped angles across the walls; nearest pedestal holds 3 Eames chairs; pedestals farther back hold a section of flooring, a bench, a rack of photo cards, and a lantern slide projector; in the rear left corner is a dressform with t-shirt

gallery with white walls and wood floor; many photographs and archival materials are installed on the walls; red and brown vinyl linear staircase designs form a V across the walls; pedestals in the space hold various objects

gallery with white walls and wood floor; photos and blueprints hang on the wall with red and brown vinyl linear staircase designs on the wall behind the works; pedestals hold various objects including a rack for study photos

black and white photos on a white gallery wall and a tshirt on a dressform, with a brown vinyl linear staircase design cutting across the wall between the two

person wearing a gray sweater seen from behind stands in front of a white wall with building blueprints and red vinyl linear staircase design

student looking at objects hung on a white gallery wall; a red vinyl linear staircase design cuts through the installation

Staircase designs on the gallery walls match the dimensions of the stairs on either side of the Jewett Auditorium. Viewed from the entrance of the gallery, they also reference the broad staircase that rises from below the building to the Academic Quad.

white gallery wall with red rectangle that has 6 black and white portrait photos hung on top of it; wall text above reads 'a question of imagination and taste' in red and 'the Jewett Arts Center, then and now' in brown

a small blueprint, a letter, and two photographs of Jewett installed on a white wall

Archival materials on display included blueprints, letters between various Wellesley characters and Rudolph, and photographs from the Wellesley College Archives and the Library of Congress Paul Rudolph collection.

black and white photo pair of a student writing in a notebook at a gallery wall near a pedestal with small sculpture; at right, two archival photos of exhibition spaces; behind, a brown vinyl linear staircase design

Historical images paired with their contemporary recreations were installed near archival material if relevant. Here a photo pairing of students taking notes in the Hallway Gallery space was installed next to archival photographs that speak to changes in Jewett exhibition spaces.

blue/green cover of Architectural Forum with a photo of Jewett, hung on a white gallery wall in a red frame; a smaller copy of the magazine is on a small shelf at right; red linear vinyl staircase design cuts across the wall behind the objects

3 students looking at a small magazine held in one student's hands; a framed version of the same magazine is on the wall with a red vinyl linear staircase design installed on the wall behind it

An original copy of the July 1959 issue of Architectural Forum, which featured the Jewett Arts Center, was framed in the gallery. A smaller recreation of the magazine was installed next to it so that visitors could actually read the articles.

slim black bench on a low white pedestal with brown strip; a raised box at left holds blueprint and labels; a photo pair of students on a bench in the Sculpture Court is installed on the pedestal

two Eames chairs and a Saarien chair on a low white pedestal; raised box at left holds labels

two Eames chairs and a Saarinen chair on a low white pedestal; one gray Eames chair is upside-down, held in place on a white box

wood rack for study photos on a large white pedestal; archival photos of study photos in use and a small blueprint of the rack design are installed on the pedestal surface; one study photo, featuring a Paul Rudolph building, is leaning on the outside of the rack

two study photo cards, one with black and white interior and one with color photo of exterior of a building, held by a student

study photo card with black and white photo of a swooping modernist building, resting on top of a wood rack

An original wood rack for study photos was installed with archival photos of the study photos in use and a blueprint of the rack's design. The rack was filled with a selection of the Art Department's study photo collection, focused here on modernist architecture. Visitors were encouraged to page through and handle the study photos.

Lantern slide projector, lightbox with slides, archival photos, and blueprint on a white pedestal

student using a loupe to look at slides on a small lightbox

hand holding up a glass lantern slide depicting a modernist building

One of the building's original lantern slide projectors was installed alongside an archival photo of the old slide library, a blueprint of the structure used to hold such projectors in the Jewett Auditorium, and a selection of 35mm and glass lantern slides of Jewett and other modernist architecture. Visitors were able to examine the slides on a light box.

hands of 3 people standing together in a gallery, each holding a red/blue riso-printed booklet with images of the Jewett Arts Center and text

A limited-edition risograph-printed booklet of essays accompanied the exhibition.

white architectural model of the Jewett Arts Center; two students bend down to closely examine it

A model of the Jewett Arts Center by Höweler + Yoon was installed just outside the gallery, where students could examine it closely.

3 black and white archival photo/recreation pairs; one showing people sitting on a bench in the Hallway Gallery; one showing a professor holding a small dog in the Sculpture Court; one showing a student sitting on the floor with papers in the Jewett Gallery

3 gallery visitors looking at photos and archival material installed on a gallery wall

a gallery visitor paging through a photo book on a pedestal

gallery visitors looking at works installed on the walls and pedestals

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