Now available: 3,500 images of paintings from the Rijksmuseum’s permanent collection

Frans Hals, Pieter Codde | Company of Captain Reinier Reael, known as the Meagre Company; 1637 | Image and original data provided by Rijksmuseum; rijksmuseum.nl

ARTstor has made available nearly 3,500 images of paintings from the Rijksmuseum’s permanent collection in the Digital Library.

The state museum of the Netherlands, the Rijksmuseum boasts a collection of one million works of art, crafts, and historical objects. The collection includes masterpieces from the Dutch Golden Age by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Jan Steen, and Johannes Vermeer, along with an exceptional collection of Asian art, antiques, a vast collection of prints, drawings, and classic photography.

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Now available: 1,000 additional images from the Phillips Collection

Paul Klee | Printed Sheet with Picture; 1937 | Image and original data provided by The Phillips Collection | © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

ARTstor and the Phillips Collection have collaborated to release nearly 1,000 additional images in the Digital Library. The release includes images of works by artists such as Aaron Siskind, August Sander, Marjorie Phillips, Duncan Phillips, Alfonso Ossorio, Morris Louis, Seymour Lipton, Oskar Kokoschka, John Graham, Lee Friedlander, and Arthur Davies.

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Now available: Images from Flemish museums and cultural institutions from Lukas – Art in Flanders

Jan Van Eyck | The Ghent Altarpiece; open | completed 1432 | Lukas – Art in Flanders

ARTstor has collaborated with Lukas – Art in Flanders to share 4,440 images of art from more than 30 important Flemish museums and cultural institutions, including: The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Groeningemuseum, The Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Foundation Terninck Antwerp, the City Archive of Bruges, and the Bruges Public Library.

The Lukas collection in the Digital Library features works from a variety of periods ranging from the 8^th century to the 20^th century and media including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and illustrations. Major artists include Hans Memling, Jan Provoost, Hieronymus Bosch, Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Hals, and James Ensor. The collection also includes new photography of The Ghent Altarpiece of 1432 by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, painted for the St. Bavo Cathedral of Ghent. Additionally, all of the metadata records in the Digital Library will be made available in English, French, and Dutch.

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Now available: Additional images from the Dallas Museum of Art

Salvador Dalí | Cybernetic Lobster Telephone from Imaginations and Objects of the Future | 1976 | Image © Dallas Museum of Art | © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, VEGAP, 2006

The Dallas Museum of Art has collaborated with ARTstor to make 2,751 additional images available in the Digital Library and in the Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) program. The release includes images of works by artists such as Thomas Hart Benton, Pierre Bonnard, Charles T. Bowling, Salvador Dalí, Eugène Delacroix, Albrecht Dürer, William Hogarth, Wassily Kandinsky, Rockwell Kent, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Richard Lindner, Reginald Marsh, Henri Matisse, Robert Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Rauschenberg, Rembrandt, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Robert Smithson, and more. This brings the current total of available images from the Museum’s collection to approximately 4,200 images.

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Now available: Additional images of European architecture and sculpture by Sarah N. James

York Minster Cathedral; interior; chapter house ceiling | Completed 1286 CE | York, England | Image and original data provided by Dr. Sara N. James

ARTstor and Sarah N. James have collaborated to release more than 1,500 additional images of Italian and English art and architecture to the Digital Library. This brings the collection total to 2,137 images.

James’ collection focuses primarily on England, including cathedrals and parish churches from the Norman Romanesque period; ecclesiastical buildings in the early English, decorated, and perpendicular styles; medieval secular architecture including castles, marketplaces, and town halls; perpendicular gothic collegiate buildings; and Tudor, Elizabethan, baroque, and neoclassical country houses and churches. Photographed in situ during James’ travels throughout Europe, the images provide contextual views of sculpture and architecture from various angles.

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Now available: Images from the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA)

Unknown (Japanese) | Seki station, No. 48, Tokaido Road series | Indianapolis Museum of Art; imamuseum.org |Image © Indianapolis Museum of Art

ARTstor and the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) have collaborated to share more than 2,000 images from its encyclopedic permanent collection in the Digital Library. This is the second installment of a projected total of 10,000 images.

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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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Now available: Additional images from the World Monuments Fund

San Juan Bautista in Huaro; Interior detail | 16th c. – 17th c. | Huaro, Peru | Photographer: Ruperto Marques/World Monuments Fund, wmf.org

ARTstor Digital Library has collaborated with the World Monuments Fund (WMF) to release 950 additional images of important architecture, cultural heritage sites, and monuments.

World Monuments Fund is the leading independent organization dedicated to saving the world’s most treasured places. Since 1965, in more than 90 countries, WMF experts have applied proven techniques to preserve important architectural and cultural heritage sites. Through partnerships with local communities, funders, and governments, the organization inspires an enduring commitment to stewardship for future generations. The collection in ARTstor consists of images documenting various Watch List sites and monuments, with a particular focus on art and architecture.

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Now available: 30,000 images from Panos Pictures

Andrew McConnell | 37 year old Josephine Mpongo practises the cello in the Kimbanguiste neighbourhood of Kinshasa. She plays with the Kimbanguiste Symphony Orchestra, who practise here 5 days per week. | 2010 | © Andrew McConnell / Panos Pictures | Panos Pictures; panos.co.uk

Panos Pictures and ARTstor have collaborated to share more than 30,000 images of contemporary global affairs in the Digital Library. Panos specializes in documenting critical social issues as well as stories beyond the contemporary media landscape. Urban development in Turkey, deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, records of extinct and endangered species at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, a barbershop in Nigeria, and Charlie Chaplin impersonators in India are among the thousands of compelling places and people now discoverable via ARTstor. The Panos Profile includes more than twenty photographers working in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. Dozens of additional photographers comprise the Panos network to create one of the most comprehensive visual records of international contemporary life. Images documenting urban and rural communities, landscape and the built environment, peace and conflict tell the story of the ties between globalized and regional life.

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