Library Artists

The building’s architect, Henry Hammond Gallison, painted several of the works exhibited in the library. Gallison was born in Boston in 1850 and studied in Paris under Bonnefoy. His studio was located in Annisquam, Massachusetts. Gallison was well known as a landscape artist.

In 1901 the Italian artist, Tommaso Juglaris, began work on the murals for the library and completed them in the summer of 1904 at Gallison’s studio. Juglaris also completed decorative work in prominent homes in Massachusetts. His work "Mlle.Yvonne" hangs at Locke-Ober Restaurant in Boston.<

Frank Hector Tompkins of Brookline, Massachusetts completed the Ray portrait hanging in Memorial Hall in 1910.