Eunice Cornell Taylor
- Title:
- Eunice Cornell Taylor
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Forbes, John Colin, 1846-1925
- Photographer:
- Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela
- Date:
- ca. 1865-1925
- Location:
- Uris Library, Otto Kinkeldey Room, Cornell University
- Country:
- Canada
- ID Number:
- artsdb_2003
- File Name:
- artsdb_1486.jpg
- Culture:
- American
- Work Type:
- portraits
- Materials/Techniques:
- Oil
- Subject:
- Eunice Taylor Cornell
- Image View Type:
- General
- Image View Description:
- Front View
- Description:
- Eunice Taylor Cornell, granddaughter of Cornell University’s founder, Ezra Cornell. Cornell poignantly expressed a commitment to equal educational opportunities for all persons, women as well as men, in an 1867 letter to a four-year-old Eunice:
“I want to have girls educated in the University as well as boys, so that they may have the same opportunity to become wise and useful to society that the boys have. I want you to keep this letter until you grow up to be a woman and want to go to a good school where you can have a good opportunity to learn, so you can show it the President and Faculty of the University to let them know that it is the wish of your Grand Pa, that girls as well as boys should be educated at the Cornell University.” [Heidig. Lance J."Uris Historical Tour: Class of 1957 Kinkeldey Room." Olin and Uris Libraries website, modified June 10, 2011, http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/history/uris/kinkeldey].
John Colin Forbes is an American painter from Toronto, Canada. Forbes studied at Upper Canada College, the South Kensington Museum, the Royal Academy, London, and École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. He was a student of T. Mover Martin. Notable portrait subjects of Forbes include: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Kind Edward VII, Queen Alexandra of Great Britain, and Governor General of Canada Frederick Hamilton-Temple Blackwood. Forbes is considered one of Canada’s best portrait painters [MacDonald, Colin S. 1997. A dictionary of Canadian artists 1 A to F. Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publ.]. - Source:
- Heidig. Lance J."Uris Historical Tour: Class of 1957 Kinkeldey Room." Olin and Uris Libraries website, modified June 10, 2011, http://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/history/uris/kinkeldey
"John Colin Forbes,” Odon Wagner Gallery, accessed April 24, 2012,http://www.odonwagnergallery.com/traditional_artist/john-colin-forbes
MacDonald, Colin S. 1997. A dictionary of Canadian artists 1 A to F. Ottawa: Canadian Paperbacks Publ - Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.