Matthew Kalmenoff paintings and drawings

Box 1: 1. Cabin in forest (oil on canvas, 41 x 31 cm.) -- 2. Jewish man reading a book (pencil on board, 36 x 28 cm.) -- 3. Rabbi holding up a Torah (pencil on board, 36 x 28 cm.) -- 4. Jewish man holding a wrapped Torah (pencil on board, 36 x 28 cm.) -- 5. Jewish man blowing a shofar (36 x 28 cm.)

Box 2. 1. Staten Island swamp: study for Forestry Hall. 1948 (watercolor on brown paper, 33 x 41 cm.) -- 2. Staten Island swamp: study for Forestry Hall. 1948 (watercolor on brown paper, 33 x 45 cm.) -- 3. Autumn detail, Stissing Mountain, Pine Plains: study for Hall of Landscapes. 1949 (watercolor on board, 26 x 38 cm.) -- 4. Shale hillside: study for Hall of Landscapes. 1951 (watercolor on board, 32 x 48 cm.) -- 5. Devonian scene, paleobotany: study for Hall of Landscapes, Geological History Section. 1951 (watercolor 22 x 27 cm., on board 34 x 40 cm.) -- 6. Triassic dinosaurs: study for Hall of Landscapes, Geological History Section. 1951 (watercolor on board 34 x 40 cm.) -- 7. Mastodons, Pleistocene: study for Hall of Landscapes, Geological History Section,1951 (watercolor 22 x 26 cm., on board 34 x 40 cm.) -- 8. History of the woods mirrorscope: study for Hall of Landscapes, Geological History Section, summer 1951 (watercolor 18 x 23 cm., on board 31 x 38 cm.) -- 9. Overgrazed forest: study for Hall of Landscapes, 1951 (watercolor on board, 38 x 50 cm.) -- 10. Seasons of [the] farm [spring], Warburg Hall. 1949 (watercolor on board, 38 x 50 cm.) -- 11. Seasons of [the] farm [fall], Warburg Hall. 1949 (watercolor on board, 38 x 50 cm.) -- 12. Negev Desert wilderness, Israel (oil on board, 37 x 50 cm.) -- 13. Hebron (Al Kahlil), Cave of the Machpelah, resting place [of] Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Leah (oil on board, 37 x 50 cm.) -- 14. Hazor (Mt. Hebron in distance) (oil on board, 37 x 50 cm.) -- 13. Mt. Zion, Iseral [i.e. Israe] [with rainbow] (oil on board, 37 x 50 cm.)

Box 3: 1. Stissing Mountain, Pine Plains--detail: study for Landscape Hall. 1949 (watercolor on board, 52 x 41 cm.) -- 2. Hill at Pine Plains, autumn 1950: study for Landscape Hall (watercolor on board, 38 x 52 cm.) -- 3. Hill at Pine Plains: study for Landscape Hall. Oct. 1949 (watercolor on board, 19 x 51 cm.) -- 4. Mastodon, Pleistocene: study for Hall of Landscapes, Geological History Section. 1951 (watercolor on board, 35 x 40 cm.) -- 5. Glacial ice sheet, Stissing Mountain: study for Landscape Hall. 1949 (watercolor on board, 26 x 53 cm.)

Box 4: 1. Englewood, N.J.: study for Forestry Hall (watercolor on board, 29 x 32 cm.) -- 2. Study for Forestry Hall (watercolor on board, 24 x 38 cm.) -- 3. Apple orchard: study for Hall of Landscapes (watercolor on board, 38 x 52 cm.) -- 4. Pine Plains #2, Stissing Mountain: study for Hall of Landscapes. 1949 (watercolor on board, 40 x 61 cm.) -- 5. Stissing Mountain, 2nd panel: study for Hall of Landscapes. 1949 (watercolor on board, 26 x 52 cm.)

Box 5: 1. Post glacial period, Stissing Mountain: study for Landscape Hall. 1949 (16 x 36 on board 27 x 46 cm.) -- 2. Glacial ice sheet, Stissing Mountain: study for Landscape Hall. 1949 (16 x 36 on board 27 x 47 cm.) -- 3. Apple orchard--harvesting: study for Landscape Hall. 1950 (39 x 51 cm.) -- 4. Apple orchard--spring: study for Landscape Hall. 1950 (39 x 51 cm.) -- 5. Burnt hillside: study for Landscape Hall. 1951 (39 x 51 cm.) -- 6. Scavenger group: study for Landscape Hall. 1950 (58 x 46 cm.) -- 7. Plowed field: study for Landscape Hall. 1950 (41 x 51 cm.) -- 8. Study for Sargasso Sea diorama, Hall of Ocean Life [attributed to Kalmenoff by Stephen Quinn] (watercolor 18 x 21 cm. on board 32 x 41 cm.)

Box 6: 1. Limestone hillside, Pine Plains: study for Landscape Hall. July 1950 (51 x 66 cm.) -- 2. Stissing Mountain--Pine Plains: study for Landscape Hall. 1950 (52 x 66 cm.) -- 3. Stissing Mountain--woodland detail, autumn: study for Landscape Hall. 1950 (50 x 65 cm.)

Box 7: 1. Staten Island, A. Oct. 1948: study for Forestry Hall (51 x 70 cm.) -- 2. Staten Island, B. Oct. 1948: study for Forestry Hall (51 x 72 cm.) -- 3. Little Stissing Mountain, Pine Plains: study for Landscape Hall. 1948 (50 x 67 cm.).

Box 8: 1. History of woods and population: study for Landscape Hall [Iroquoi hunting deer]. 1949 (61 x 70 cm.) -- 2. History of woods and population: study for Landscape Hall. 1950 (60 x 70 cm.) -- 3. Indian cornfield, Ecuador: study for Botany Hall. 1949 (61 x 70 cm.) -- 4. Shade grown tobacco, Connecticut: study for Botany Hall. 1948 (61 x 71 cm.) -- 5. Coffee plantation, Colombia: study for Botany Hall. 1948 (61 x 70 cm.) -- 6. Chinese garden: study for Botany Hall. 1949 (61 x 70 cm.) -- 7. Middle West wheat field: study for Botany Hall. 1949 (56 x 74 cm.) -- 8. Cacao plantation, Central America: study for Botany Hall. 1949 (60 x 70 cm.)

Box 9: 1. Ireland(?) flax field: study for Botany Hall. 1948 (60 x 68 cm.) -- 2. Indian cornfield in Ecuador: study for Botany Hall. 1950 (60 x 70 cm.) -- 3. Eastern violets: study for Botany Hall. 1949 (60 x 77 cm.) -- 4. Rice paddies, Philippines: study for Botany Hall. 1949 (61 x 71 cm.) -- 5. Hothouse with tropical plants: study for Botany Hall. 1949 (61 x 72 cm.) -- 6. Sumatra rubber plantation: study for Botany Hall. 1949 (60 x 70 cm.) -- 7. Shade grown tobacco, Connecticut: study for Botany Hall. 1949 (61 x 70 cm.) -- 8. Acanthus, Athens: study for Botany Hall. 1948 (61 x 70 cm.)

Box 10. Hall of Asian peoples: 1. Ishtar Gate [Babylon] (pencil on transparent paper 38 x 34 cm. (with smaller sheet taped on top of it) -- 2. Babylon (pencil on transparent paper 38 x 49 cm. 3. [Hanging gardens of Babylon] (pencil and red ballpoint pen on transparent paper 38 x 35 cm.) -- 4. [Hanging gardens of Babylon] (watercolor, 36 x 32 cm., on board 46 x 41 cm.) -- 5. [Troy] (pencil on transparent paper 36 x 43 cm.) -- 6. [Troy] (pencil on transparent paper 36 x 43 cm.)

Box 11. Paintings for the Hall of Asian Peoples, section depicting the rise of civilization in the Near East (all are oil on board, 45 x 69 cm.): 1. Graveltian winter camp in Dolní Věstonice [Czech Republic] walled with mammoth bones, Upper Paleolithic, ca. 25000 BC -- 2. The Natufians (cave-dwellers) of the Levant, ca. 10000-8000 BC -- 3. Dune dwellers hunting migrating birds by Lake Tsagang Nor, Mongolia, ca. 7000-3000 BC -- 4. Jericho, 6500 BC -- 5. The Halaf of northern Mesopotamia 5700-4500 BC -- 6. The temple builders of southern Mesopotamia (ca. 4200-3700 BC) -- 7. The Plain of Shinar, Sumer [southeastern Iraq], ca. 3100 BC -- 8. Perpepolis, the capital of Persia, 532-325 BC.

Box 12. Hall of Asian Peoples (all oil on board except #1): 1. Mecca at night during the hajj (pencil, 41 x 56 cm., on board 51 x 76 cm.) -- 2. Mecca at night during the hajj (51 x 76 cm.) -- 3. The Registan of Samarkand [Uzbekistan] (51 x 76 cm.) -- 4. Lhasa (41 x 76 cm. on board 51 x 76 cm.) -- 5. Landscape with Chinese wedding procession, Shandong, NE China (38 x 76 cm. on board 51 x 76 cm.) -- 6. The Great Wall of China (51 x 76 cm.) -- 7. Rice paddies (51 x 76 cm.)