Now available: Additional images of cave temples at Ellora

Hindu | Cave 16 | ca. mid 6th to 8th century CE | Ellora, India | Cave Temples at Ellora, India, Collection; elloracaves.org

ARTstor and Deepanjana Danda Klein have collaborated to release nearly 2,000 additional images of the rock-cut cave temples at Ellora in Maharashtra, India in the Digital Library. These 34 Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain caves were excavated from a two-kilometer stretch of rock cliff between the sixth and tenth centuries C.E. Klein’s work at Ellora represents the first systematic photographic campaign of the entire site, including photography of previously undocumented caves.

All photographs were taken by Arno Klein and annotations for these images are based on Professor Spink’s notes from the site. Klein is a Specialist in the Modern & Contemporary Indian Art Department at Christie’s. She has a Ph.D. in Indian art history from De Montfort University (DMU) and has taught art history, theory, and aesthetics at the School of Architecture at DMU, Leicester and at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies in Mumbai.

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Now available: Jingfan Wang

Jingfan Wang | Working process 3 – Printing 14, 2010 | © Jingfan Wang, photograph by Zhuqing Ji

ARTstor Digital Library and Jingfan Wang have collaborated to share 80 images of traditional Chinese copying, typesetting, and printing techniques.

The collection, photographed by Zhuquing Ji, offers a glimpse of an expert craftsman at work in the studio.

 

Related collections:

• Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery (Scripps College)
• Saint Louis Art Museum; Asian Art Photographic Distribution (University of Michigan)
• Asian Art Collection (Connecticut College)
• Wriston Art Center Galleries (Lawrence University)

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New agreement: Images from the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

ARTstor is collaborating with the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to share approximately 4,000 images from the permanent collection in the Digital Library.

The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial programming.

The Museum’s diverse collection spans twenty four centuries of historic and contemporary design, including seventeenth-century Japanese tsuba, Parisian parasol designs, postmodern glassware, modular toys, and fabric about the future.

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New agreement: Images from the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco

ARTstor and Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco (CCC) are collaborating to celebrate the achievement of nine artists whose work CCCArts, the Foundation’s visual arts program, calls “among the most innovative artistic expressions today.” Approximately 500 images will be made available in the Digital Library that explore the rich cultural nexus between tradition and innovation.

Founded in 1965, the Chinese Culture Foundation’s goal is to “promote and influence the course of art and culture, contributing to the global discourse with crucial impact.” CCCArts challenges perceptions and encourages risk-taking by bringing critical visibility through open dialogue.

Related collections:

• Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD) (University of Michigan)
• Asia Society Collection
• Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive)
• New Museum of Contemporary Art Collection

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New agreement: images from the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

ARTstor and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston are collaborating to make approximately 20,000 images from the permanent collection available in the Digital Library.

The collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) spans antiquity to today, with strengths in Italian Renaissance painting, French Impressionism, photography, American and European decorative arts, African and pre-Columbian gold, American art, and post-1945 European and American painting and sculpture. The museum has further strengthened the diversity of its collection with modern and contemporary Latin American art, Asian art, and Islamic art.

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New agreement: Images from the Francis Newton Souza Estate

ARTstor and the Francis Newton Souza Estate are collaborating to make approximately 4,200 images of Souza’s artwork available in the ARTstor Digital Library.

Born in Saligoa, Goa, India in 1924, Francis Newton Souza became the first of India’s post-Independence modern painters to achieve high recognition in the West. His works can be found in major museum collections around the world, including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, the Wakefield Art Gallery, the Haifa Museum in Israel, the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas, Texas, the National Gallery of Modern Art in India, the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia, and the Glenbarra Museum in Japan. According to Indian art historian Yashodhara Dalmia, “At the heart of Souza’s creativity was the belief that society’s destructive aspects shouldn’t be suppressed, they should be aired and confronted.”

The Francis Newton Souza Estate comprised a collection of artwork that spanned six decades, from 1939-2001. It included paintings, works on paper, diaries, an unfinished book that outlines the artist’s philosophy on art and life, an annotated library embracing an array of topics, personal and business correspondence, and a large number of photographs. The Francis Newton Souza Foundation is currently working on Souza’s catalogue raisonné.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Francis Newton Souza Estate collection page.

Related collections:

• American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) Collection (University of Michigan)
• American Institute of Indian Studies Collection
• Victoria and Albert Museum Collection
• Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive)

 

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New agreement: East Asian rock-cut caves and South Asian art from David Efurd

ARTstor Digital Library is collaborating with David Efurd to share approximately 10,000 images of rock-cut Buddhist caves, sites, sculptures, and monasteries in India and Korea; Hindu and Jain sites; and ancient and medieval sculptures from museums in India.

Between the 3^rd century BCE and the 10^th century CE, Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain temples and monasteries were carved into stone cliffs in India. Efurd documented well-known, highly embellished cave sites such as Ajanta, Ellora, Bhaja, Karli, Elephanta, Jogeshvari, and Udaigiri, as well as lesser-known sites like Karadh, Kondana, and Dhamnar. Efurd also photographed many other archaeological sites and works in various museums, such as the Indian Museum in Calcutta.

David Efurd is an assistant professor of Art History at Wofford College, South Carolina. He received a Fulbright-Hays award to undertake an extensive study of rock-cut cave architecture. During his tenure and in subsequent trips, he visited seventy rock-cut sites and amassed over ten thousand photographs of both interior and exterior rock-cut features, including architectural details, inscriptions, and sculptures.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the David Efurd page.

 

Related collections:

• Mellon International Dunhuang Archive
• Shuilu’an Temple (Northwestern University)
• Deepanjana Danda Klein and Arno Klein: Cave Temples at Ellora, India
• Beyond the Taj: Architectural Traditions and Landscape Experience in South Asia (Cornell University Library)
• Carl Strom and Jennifer Strom: Korean Buddhist Monasteries

 

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On this day: Man lands on the Moon

John Adams Whipple | The Moon, 1857 – 1860 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The first manned mission to land on the Moon touched down on July 20, 1969. Upon arrival, Commander Neil A. Armstrong famously reported, “The Eagle has landed.” The next day he would be the first human to walk upon the Moon’s surface, the capstone of mankind’s fascination with the satellite.

Enjoy this slide show featuring an early photograph of the Moon, Caspar David Friedrich’s Romanticist landscape, a Nepalese mandala of Chandra, god of the Moon, all courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yamamoto Baiitsu’s painting of the Moon and waves from the Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection; and an Iranian manuscript illumination featuring the angel Israfil holding the Moon from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Want to see more? Do an advanced search in the ARTstor Digital Library for Moon in the Title field to find more than 1,000 results in many media from ancient times to the present. Be sure not to miss Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s irreverent painting, too racy for the ARTstor Blog!

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Now available: Additional images from Connecticut College

Albrecht Durer | St. John Beholding the Seven Golden Candlesticks (Jesus appearing in the clouds) | Wetmore Print Collection, Connecticut College, New London

ARTstor and Connecticut College have partnered to release more than 600 images from the Wetmore Print Collection to the Digital Library. This collection features work by artists from across Europe and the United States, including William Blake, Rembrandt, John Sloan, Annibale Carracci, Canaletto, David Teniers, Claude Lorrain, and many others.

View the collection in the Digital Library: http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/ctcollege_asian or enter the Keyword Search: asian conncoll.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Connecticut College page.

Related collections:

• Huntington Archive of Asian Art
• Mellon International Dunhuang Archive
• Asia Society Collection
• Asian Art Photographic Distribution (University of Michigan)

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Now available: Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery (Scripps College)

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi | Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Suke no tsubone and Shin chunagon Taira no Tomomori, 1867 | Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College

ARTstor and the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College are now sharing more than 700 images of works from the permanent collection in the Digital Library. The collection in ARTstor consists of highlights from several special collections. The Gallery houses a teaching collection of Japanese woodblock prints and illustrated books from the late 17th century to late 20th century, featuring works by the artists Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892). The Marer Collection of contemporary ceramics is international in scope, comprising American, British, Japanese, Korean, and Mexican works. The Young Collection focuses on Impressionist oil paintings by 19th and 20th century American artists, including George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, William Glackens, Frederick Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Maurice Prendergast, and Theodore Robinson, among others. Another important teaching collection traces the history of photography with a selection works from the 19th through the 21st century. Finally, there is the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection, which comprises works by contemporary artists with a special focus on art by women and African-American artists, such as Elizabeth Catlett, Samella Lewis, Faith Ringgold, and Alison Saar.

View the collection in the Digital Library.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery (Scripps College) collection page.

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