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| Volume 72 Number 6 November 2005 |
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Special Article |
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Barbara J. Niss, M.A. |
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Address all correspondence to Barbara J. Niss, Archivist, Levy Library, Box 1102, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 1 East 100th Street, New York, NY 10029-6574.
Accepted for publication March 2005.
ABSTRACT
The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York is a private institution with many public spaces. Over the years, Mount Sinai has acquired art to add vitality and interest to these public areas. This article provides brief details about some of the larger artworks and how they found their way to Mount Sinai 's campus on Fifth Avenue . There is also a description of one smaller object that is held in the collections of the Mount Sinai Archives. The latter is an original sketch of a Mount Sinai physician, done by the famous medical illustrator, Frank H. Netter, M.D.
KEY WORDS
Art; hospital design and construction; Lilienthal, Howard; Netter, Frank; Chermayeff, Ivan; Kozikowski, Nancy; Poor, Henry Varnum; Noguchi, Isamu; Pomodoro, Arnaldo.| |
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