Over the years, UMass Lowell Libraries has housed a number of commissioned artworks of University administrators and figures from our legacy organizations. The portraits of Alexander G. Cumnock, Chairman of the Lowell Textile School's Board of Trustees and Daniel H. O’Leary University of Lowell Chancellor are on public display in the foyers of the buildings which bear their names, Cumnock Hall on North campus and O'Leary Library on South. The other portraits are not presently on public view but can be enjoyed here. UMass Lowell Libraries will continue to document and share campus art in order to preserve our institutional heritage.
Reverse side of oil on canvas portrait of Louis Atwell Olney, by H. Bingham Ballou, 1946.
Alexander G. Cumnock
Chairman Lowell Textile School Board of Trustees
Oil Painting, circa 1908
Foyer of Cumnock Hall
Daniel H. O'Leary
President Lowell State College (1950 – 1975)
Chancellor, University of Lowell (1975 – 1977)
Oil painting by Gardner Cox, December, 1979
Myron S. Freeman
Trustee and Benefactor Lowell Technological Institute (1941 – 1953)
30 ½” X 35 5/8”
Oil Painting
Harold W. Leitch
Trustee
Oil Painting
28 3/8” x 22 3/8”
George E. Malliaros
1889 Founder 1968
Oil Painting
Samuel Pinanski
Chairman Board of Trustees, Lowell Technological Institute (1951 – 1969)
28 1/4” x 24
Photograph by Fabian Bachrach
Louis A. Olney
Head of Chemistry Department Lowell Textile School
(1897 – 1928)
Lowell Textile Institute (1928 – 1945)
Oil Painting
49 1/4” x 38 3/4”
On Verso:
“Dr. Louis Atwell Olney Born April 21, 1974 Head of Chemisty & Dyeing Lowell Textile Inst. (1897 – 1944) First President of A-A-T-C-C Chairman of Research Committee (1921 – 1946) Editor “American Dye-stuff Reporter” (1919 – 1946) Painted from life by H. Bingham Ballous (Jan 1946) HB”
Dean Richard W. Ivers
Oil painting
Kenneth R. Russell Fox
President – Lowell Textile Institute
(1945 – 1950)
Oil Painting
When appointed in 1945 at he age of 29 Fox was the youngest college president in the nation he brought growth and change to the Lowell Textile Institute between 1945 and 1950.
Martin James Lydon
President – Lowell Textile Institute
(1950 – 1953)
President – Lowell Technological Institute (1953 – 1971)
Photograph
Everett Varney Olsen
President – Lowell Technological Institute
(1971 – 1975)
Acting President – University of Lowell
(1975 – 1976)
Photograph by Fabian Bachrach
John B. Duff
President – University of Lowell
(1976 – 1981)
James T. Cook
Founder of the Lowell Textile School
Oil Painting by Vesper Lincoln George (1865 – 1934)
(32 1/4" x 37 3/4")
William T. Hogan
President, University of Lowell (1981 – 1991)
Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Lowell (1991 – 2006)
Photograph by Fabian Bachrach
After working as an engineer at General Electric and for the U.S. Army, Bill Hogan joined the campus as a professor of mechanical engineering in 1963. He quickly moved up in ranks, becoming Dean of the College of Engineering, Vice President of Academic Affairs and, eventually, President of the University of Lowell. He became UMass Lowell's first Chancellor in 1991. Shortly before retiring in 2006, Hogan helped develop a plan for a $266 million renovation of the university's three campuses, taking the first steps towards establishing UMass Lowell as a world-class research and development center. He died in 2017 at the age of 84.
