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Exhibition: "A Collection's Progress: The Lewis Walpole Library, 2000-2014"
A Collection's Progress: The Lewis Walpole Library, 2000-2014
Curated by Margaret K. Powell
W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director, the Lewis Walpole Library
April 14 - October 3, 2014
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When Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis left his library to Yale in 1979 Lewis thought of his gift not as a finished monument but as a living thing that required growth and change lest it become, in his words, “static and moldy.” The exhibition presents materials selected from the LWL’s collecting successes of the last fourteen years. Together the objects on display argue forcefully for the Library’s conquest of stasis and mold, and each speaks eloquently of another time, its politics and conflicts, its arts, fashions, and pastimes.