Charles Chauncey Shackford Portrait
- Title:
- Charles Chauncey Shackford Portrait
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Wells, Newton Alonzo
- Donor:
- Cornell Class of 1884
- Photographer:
- Espinosa de los Monteros, Pamela
- Date:
- 1884
- Location:
- Uris Library, Sumner M. Kirby Memorial Room
Originally located in Reading Room Uris Library, and later Room 302 of Uris Library, Cornell University - Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- artsdb_1761
- Accession Number:
- W84-55.6
- File Name:
- artsdb_1761.jpg
- Culture:
- American
- Work Type:
- portraits
- Materials/Techniques:
- Oil
- Subject:
- Shackford, Charles C. (Charles Chauncy), 1815-1891
- Description:
- Portrait of Charles Chauncey Shackford, Cornell University Professor of Rhetoric and Literature (1871-1886). Presented as a memorial gift by the class of 1884 to Professor Shackford on the same year he was made Professor Emeritus. Professor Shackford was part of the first faculty for the English Department and the early success of the University in intercollegiate literary contests was attributed to him. He was an early proponent of English entrance exams for prospective Cornell students, which were adopted in 1889. ["Department of Oratory:The Growth and Development of the Department--Its instructors, Courses, Methods and Results." Cornell Alumni News. (Ithaca, NY), March 21, 1900, http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/25776/1/002_24.pdf ]. This portrait is part of the Sumner M. Kirby Memorial Room dedicated and furnished by Allan P. Kirby as a memorial to his brother for the undergraduate library of Cornell University, now Uris Library.
American artist Newton Alonzo Wells received a Bachelors (1877) and Masters in Painting (1880) from Syracuse University. He studied under Bouguereau, Laurnes and Benjamin-Constant at the Academie Julian, Paris. He was an art teacher at Union College (1877-79) and Syracuse University (1879-89), and Dean for the School of Arts at Western Reserve University (1899-90) [Muriel Scheinman. 1961. “Altegeld Hall, The Original Library Building at the University of Illinois: Its History, Architecture and Art” (Master Thesis, University of Illinois, 1969), http://www.math.illinois.edu/History/scheinman_thesis.html]. He was also Professor of History and Practice of Painting, and Professor of Architectural Decoration at the University of Illinois from 1903 until his retirement in 1919. He is the artist of the Altegeld Hall murals at the University of Illinois’ original library, and mural painter for the Sandamon Country Courthouse and Colonial Theater in Boston. Eleven of his portraits can be found at the University of Illinois [Scheinman, Muriel. 1995. A guide to art at the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, Robert Allerton Park, and Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois Press]. - Source:
- "Department of Oratory:The Growth and Development of the Department--Its instructors, Courses, Methods and Results." Cornell Alumni News. (Ithaca, NY), March 21, 1900,dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/25776/1/002_24.pdf
Muriel Scheinman. 1961. “Altegeld Hall, The Original Library Building at the University of Illinois: Its History, Architecture and Art” (Master Thesis, University of Illinois, 1969), http://www.math.illinois.edu/History/scheinman_thesis.html
Scheinman, Muriel. 1995. A guide to art at the University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, Robert Allerton Park, and Chicago. Urbana: University of Illinois Press - 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.