Paginations is a series of year-round public installations featuring works drawn from the Clark library’s extensive holdings curated by members of the library staff and presented in the Manton Reading Room. Past displays have been reproduced virtually here (see main menu for a complete listing).

Gridlocked: the Geometry of Weaving

November 2025-May 2026

The many facets of the art and science of weaving are considered through a selection of manuals, pattern books, textile samples, and artists’ books. Going beyond practical applications, this display celebrates the intentional and inadvertent geometries related to the act of weaving.

Back Bay to the Berkshires: Celebrating 250 Years of Art in Massachusetts

September-November 2025

Bold by Design: Mid-century Modern Graphic Art

May-September 2025

Recipes from the Sterling and Francine Clark Personal Papers

The Personal Papers of Robert Sterling Clark contain a variety of documents, records, writings, inventories, and ephemera accumulated by RSC and Francine. Typed and handwritten recipes for dishes from quiche lorraine to corn dodgers are collected in the Writings series. 

Digitized rare books from the library's collection have moved and are now part of the library catalog. This includes material from the following collections (and much more)

Mary Ann Beinecke Decorative Art Collection

Weaver and author Mary Ann Beinecke assembled an important collection of books on decorative art with particular strengths in costume history, handicrafts, and textile design. This collection, spans the period from 1550 to the 1970s.

David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction

This collection documents the history of photomechanical printing from its development in 1826 through the perfection of three-color printing at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Julius S. Held Collection of Rare Books

This collection include works by Virgil and Ovid, versions of Aesop's fables, titles on astronomy, religion, natural history, and anatomy dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century as well as important art histories and early treatises on iconology and emblems

Rare Books and Manuscripts

Digitized rare volumes acquired by the library individually rather than as part of a collection.