The Memorial Art Gallery is delighted to offer detailed verbal descriptions of selected works of art in the Gallery’s collection to visitors who have low or no vision. Popular favorites in the Gallery’s collection have been chosen to launch this new program. These descriptions are available as recordings via cell phones and on MAG’s website. On the website, the descriptions are offered at original speed, and at a slightly faster version for those who are accustomed to the speed of screen reader programs.
To access these descriptions via cell phone, dial 585.627.4132. Following the introduction, you will be prompted to enter a number for each artwork. Please be aware your regular cell phone charges apply to these calls.
Lilly Martin Spencer, Peeling Onions, ca. 1852 | Read Transcript
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Thomas Hart Benton, Boomtown, 1928 | Read Transcript
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John Steuart Curry, Negro Head, 1927 | Read Transcript
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John Koch, Interlude, 1963 | Read Transcript
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Walter Goodman, The Printseller’s Window, 1883 | Read Transcript
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Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Veiled Sun, 1903 | Read Transcript
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Frans Snyders and Workshop, The Fox and the Heron, ca. 1630-1640 | Read Transcript
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Young Priestess, 1902 | Read Transcript
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The verbal descriptions were written by Amy Mednick and edited by Lisa Helen Hoffman, consultant, with additional input from Rene LaTorre of the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired-Goodwill. Thanks to trained audio describer Anita Nicoletta who volunteered to record these descriptions, and to Ruth Phinney who generously donated the recording and production time at WXXI Reachout Radio.
This project was supported in part with funds from the Elizabeth L. and Donald M. Cohn Endowment of the Memorial Art Gallery and the John Steuart Curry Foundation.
