Seen in the Stacks
If it’s art you’re seeking, read about it and see it at your public library.
The Artist’s Life
Edited by McKenzie Graham
TAM: How can public libraries
help patrons of the arts?
NYPL: Public libraries are
about access to materials
and information. The Art and
Architecture Collection in the
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach
Division of Art, Prints and
Photographs includes more
than 600,000 books, period-
icals and auction catalogues.
TAM: What else does the
NYPL have in its collection?
NYPL: The holdings include
rare and unique collections
of the Astor and Lenox
libraries, other generous gifts
with a signifi cant strength in
18th- and 19th-century art
movements, and an exten-
sive collection of antiquarian
plate books. We also have
We spoke with Vincenzo
Rutigliano, Miguel Rosales
and Lori Salmon, librarians
at the Art & Architecture
Collection of the New York
Public Library, about how
to best utilize the library’s
resources.
The NYPL has
88 branches.
The only known
copy of an early
printed edition
of Columbus’s
1493 letter
announcing his
discovery of the
New World is
in the library’s
possession.JONATHAN BLANC/THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY8 artistsmagazine.com
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