Art Book Room Collection Brochure

The Art Book Room Collection includes some of the libraries’ most valuable resources on the visual arts, art history, architecture, and interior design. In addition to traditional books, the collection also holds an array of fine press publications, artists’ books, and print portfolios.

The research holdings include exhibition catalogs and printed ephemera such as posters and announcement cards. Especially rich with material on modernism and postmodernism in Western American art, the collection supports original research on the permanent art collection of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University.

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The Kathryn Caine Wanlass Library of Art, Design, and Beat Literature

is named for one of USU Merrill-Cazier Library’s principal benefactors, Kathryn Caine Wanlass.

Her vision of a “community of the arts” facilitated the development of an exceptionally rich collection of design, art, and American literature with her gifts of The Prestini Design Collection, The Marie Eccles Caine Beat Poetry and Little Magazine Collection, and her continued investment in and development of The Art Book Room Collection.