Robert Goldwater Library

The Robert Goldwater Library in the department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a noncirculating research library dedicated to the documentation of visual arts of sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Native and Precolumbian America. The library is open to adult researchers, including college and graduate students.

Collections
The Library collection comprises over 20,000 books published worldwide, with an additional 10,000 volumes of periodicals, including current subscriptions to 200 journals. Subject strengths include the art and material culture of West Africa, Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya (Indonesia), and Precolumbian Mexico and Peru, with extensive holdings in related disciplines such as anthropology, ethnology, and archaeology. The library routinely collects exhibition and auction sales catalogs, as well as academic theses and dissertations.

WATSONLINE, the Museum's online library catalog, provides access to the Goldwater Library's holdings, with searching available by author, title, subject, keyword, or call number.

History
The library of the Museum of Primitive Art, located on West 54th Street in Manhattan, opened to the public in 1957. The Museum, founded by Nelson Rockefeller, was devoted entirely to the arts of the indigenous cultures of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas and to those art objects related to the early civilizations of Asia and Europe. The museum closed in 1975. The library's holdings were transferred, with other holdings of that institution, to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978. In January 1982 the library reopened to the public as the Robert Goldwater Library. Robert Goldwater (1907–1973) was the first director of the Museum of Primitive Art and a renowned scholar in both modern and African art. His Primitivism in Modern Art, initially published in 1938, was the pioneering study of the subject.

Hours and Access
The Goldwater Library's collections are available to researchers by request in the Watson Library. Materials will be paged from the Goldwater Library twice a day, Monday through Friday, for use in Watson during Watson Library hours. Museum visitors intending only to use the libraries do not pay Museum admission.

Located on the mezzanine level of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, the library is accessible by advance appointment on Tuesdays and Thursday, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Further reading

• Goldwater, Robert; et al. (1969). Art of Oceania, Africa, and the Americas from the Museum of Primitive Art: an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

External links

• GoldwaterLibrary.org library blog
• WATSONLINE: The Catalog of the Libraries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art for holdings, access and appointment information
• Robert Goldwater Library's photos on flickr
• Metropolitan Museum: Arts of Africa, Oceania, & The Americas flickr group
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: official site
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a Timeline of Art History

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Directors

• Luigi Palma di Cesnola
• Caspar Purdon Clarke
• Edward Robinson
• Herbert Eustis Winlock
• Francis Henry Taylor
• James Rorimer
• Thomas Hoving
• Philippe de Montebello
• Thomas P. Campbell

Miscellaneous

• Met Gala
• Museum Mile
• Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide

Antiquities

• Amathus sarcophagus
• Bajaur casket
• Burke Jizō
• Pratt Ivories
• Coffin of Nedjemankh
• Cesnola Sphinx Funerary Stele
• Dipylon krater
• Magdeburg Ivories
• Armenian Gospel with Silver Cover
• Calligraphic Galleon
• Carp and Pine
• Chair of Reniseneb
• Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
• Hounds and Jackals
• The Hunt of the Unicorn
• Hunting of Birds with a Hawk and a Bow
• Kettle Drums
• Kneeling Bull with Vessel
• Miniature Altarpiece with the Crucifixion
• Modern Gothic cabinet
• Morgan Casket
• Pair of Incense Boxes in the Shape of Mandarin Ducks
• Pomegranate carved in the round
• Rectangular Octave Virginal
• Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio
• Intan Jizō
• The Triumph of Fame
• Vase with lid
• Woman Seen from the Back
• Statuette of the lady Tiye
• Phoenician metal bowls

Paintings

• 1476 Altarpiece
• A Cavalryman
• A Vase of Flowers (1716)
• The Abduction of Rebecca
• The Accommodations of Desire
• The Actor (painting)
• Adoration of the Magi (Bosch, New York)
• Adoration of the Shepherds (Mantegna)
• The Aegean Sea
• The Afternoon Meal (Luis Meléndez)
• Alexander Hamilton (Trumbull)
• The Allegory of Faith
• Allegory of the Planets and Continents
• Alpine Pool
• Altman Madonna
• America Today
• Ancient Rome (painting)
• Annunciation (Memling)
• Annunziata Polyptych
• Anthony van Dyck self portrait
• Approaching Thunder Storm
• Arab Woman (watercolor)
• Arcadia (painting)
• Ariadne (Giorgio de Chirico)
• Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
• Artillery (Roger de la Fresnaye)
• The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog
• At the Seaside
• Au Lapin Agile
• Autumn Ivy (Ogata Kenzan)
• Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)
• Bache Madonna
• Bain à la Grenouillère
• The Baker's Cart
• The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre
• Banquet in Silence (Marsden Hartley)
• Bashi-Bazouk (Jean-Léon Gérôme)
• A Basket of Clams (Winslow Homer)
• Beauty Revealed
• Black Iris (painting)
• Black Stork in a Landscape
• Boating (Édouard Manet)
• Annunciation (Botticelli, New York)
• Bouquet of Small Chrysanthemums (Léon Bonvin)
• Boy Carrying a Sword
• The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
• Brigand and His Wife in Prayer
• Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara
• The Brioche
• Broadway and 42nd Street
• Broken Eggs
• Burg Weiler Altarpiece
• Butler Madonna
• By the Seashore
• Ca' Dolfin Tiepolos
• The Calm Sea (painting)
• Camouflage Self-Portrait
• Cannon Rock (painting)
• The Card Players
• Catania and Mount Etna
• Cemetery, New Mexico (Marsden Hartley)
• Cervara Altarpiece
• The Chess Players (Eakins painting)
• Children Playing with a Goat
• Christ Carrying the Cross (El Greco, New York)
• Christ Presented to the People (Il Sodoma)
• Christ with a Staff
• Claes Duyst van Voorhout
• Cloudy Mountains
• Coast Guard Station, Two Lights, Maine
• Coast Scene, Isles of Shoals
• The Collector of Prints (Edgar Degas)
• Comtesse de la Châtre
• Captain George K. H. Coussmaker
• Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue
• A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise
• Cows Crossing a Ford
• Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
• Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych
• Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John
• The Cup of Tea
• Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• The Dancing Class
• The Dead Christ with Angels
• The Death of Harmonia
• The Death of Socrates
• The Defense of Champigny
• Delirious Hem
• The Denial of Saint Peter (Caravaggio)
• Diana and Cupid
• The Dream of Aeneas (Salvator Rosa)
• Dressing for the Carnival
• Madonna and Child (Duccio)
• Egyptian Woman with Earrings
• Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile
• The Empress Elizabeth of Russia on Horseback, Attended by a Page
• Entrance to a Dutch Port
• Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort with Their Tutor and Coachman
• Esther before Ahasuerus (Artemisia Gentileschi)
• Ethel Scull 36 Times
• The Experts (painting)
• The Falls of Niagara
• The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes
• Femme Lisant
• Ferry near Gorinchem
• The Fingernail Test
• Fish Market (Joachim Beuckelaer)
• The Fishing Boat
• Fishing Boats, Key West
• The Five Points (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Florinda (painting)
• The Forest in Winter at Sunset (painting)
• The Fortune Teller (de La Tour)
• Fruit Dish and Glass
• The Funeral (painting)
• Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
• Garden at Sainte-Adresse
• George Washington (Trumbull)
• Gilbert Stuart (Goodridge)
• A Girl Asleep
• Girl with a Cat (Gwen John)
• Glass Blowers of Murano
• Golden Cock and Hen
• A Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius
• The Great Sirens
• The Gulf Stream (painting)
• Harlequin with a Guitar
• The Harvest, Pontoise
• The Harvesters (painting)
• Haystacks:Autumn
• Head of Christ (Rembrandt, New York)
• The Heart of the Andes
• The Hermit (Il solitario)
• The Horse Fair
• Houses on the Achterzaan
• I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold
• In a Courtyard, Tangier
• The Interior of an Atelier of a Woman Painter (Lemoine)
• Interior with a Young Couple and a Dog
• Irises screen
• Isaac Blessing Jacob (Gerbrand van den Eeckhout)
• Isle of the Dead (painting)
• Italian Hill Town (Arthur B. Davies)
• Jo, the Beautiful Irishwoman
• Joy of Life (Valadon)
• Juan Legua
• July Fourteenth, Rue Daunou, 1910
• The Kearsarge at Boulogne
• The Lacemaker (Maes)
• Lachrymae (Frederic Leighton)
• Lady at the Tea Table
• Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt)
• Lake George (John Frederick Kensett)
• Landscape with Sky
• The Last Communion of Saint Jerome (Botticelli)
• Lehman Madonna
• Lilacs in a Window
• Lobster Fishermen (Marsden Hartley)
• The Lovesick Maiden
• Lukas Spielhausen
• Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly (Mary Cassatt)
• Madame Élisabeth de France
• Madame Grand (Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun)
• Madonna and Child (Bellini, New York, 1485–1490)
• Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints (Raphael)
• Magdalene with Two Flames
• The Maidservant
• Maine Coast
• Majas on a Balcony
• Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga
• The Marriage of the Virgin (Michelino da Besozzo)
• The Martyrdom of Saint Barbara (Lucas Cranach the Elder)
• The Masquerade Dress
• The Matador Saluting
• Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
• Mérode Altarpiece
• Merry company with two men and two women
• Mezzetino (painting)
• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (painting)
• Miss V Dressed as a Bullfighter
• Model by the Wicker Chair
• Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley
• Moonlight, Wood Island Light
• Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen
• Moses Striking the Rock
• Mother and Child (Cassatt)
• Mountain Stream (John Singer Sargent)
• Mountain with Red House
• Movement No. 5, Provincetown Houses
• Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes
• Mrs. Atkinson (Gwen John)
• Mrs. Beckington (Alice Beckington)
• Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
• The Musician (Bartholomeus van der Helst painting)
• A Musician and His Daughter
• The Musicians (Caravaggio)
• Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (Memling)
• Nativity scenes attributed to Zanobi Strozzi
• Night-Shining White
• Northeaster (painting)
• Nude Before a Mirror
• Oedipus and the Sphinx
• Old Trees, Level Distance
• Pity (William Blake)
• Portrait of Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc

Exhibitions

• Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
• American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
• AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
• Before Yesterday We Could Fly
• Camp: Notes on Fashion
• China: Through the Looking Glass
• Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire
• Fashion and History: A Dialogue
• Glitter and Doom
• Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
• In America: A Lexicon of Fashion
• In America: An Anthology of Fashion
• Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years
• Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Centennial
• The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
• The Pictures Generation
• Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons Art of the In-Between
• Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
• Te Maori
• Vessel Orchestra

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