Now available: Images of modern and contemporary Latin American art

Approximately 170 images of modern and contemporary Latin American art from Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, and Uruguay are now available in the Digital Library. The artists represented include: Willys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Carlos Cruz Diez, Gego, Alfredo Hlito, Alejandro Otero, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, Mira Schendel, Jesús Soto, and Joaquín Torres García, among others. These [...]

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New collection agreement: Diego Rivera images from the Detroit Institute of Arts

ARTstor is collaborating with the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to add approximately 1,380 images of works by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) to the Digital Library. The images will be digitized from a rare collection of photographs that was created in conjunction with the seminal 1986 exhibition “Diego Rivera: A Retrospective,” which was [...]

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ARTstor and Colección Patricia Phelps De Cisneros announce partnership

ARTstor and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) have announced a collaboration through which the CPPC will share hundreds of images of colonial, modern, and contemporary Latin American art through the ARTstor Digital Library. The partnership will broaden educational and scholarly access to these important works, which include examples by such major artists as [...]

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ARTstor Collections Summary 2008

In 2008, the community continued to contribute important and unique collections to the ARTstor Digital Library. ARTstor released 22 new collections, added content to 21 existing collections, and reached agreements with 33 new museums, photoarchives, libraries, scholars, professional photographers, and artists and artists’ estates. The ARTstor Digital Library collection now totals 890,000 images and will [...]

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Collection release: Mexican Retablos (Douglas Massey)

ARTstor, in collaboration with Douglas Massey, has recently added 170 images of Mexican retablos to the Digital Library. Retablos are small, colorful oil paintings made on tin and offered as votives of thanks for miracles granted and favors bestowed. Massey photographed retablos dating from 1912 to 1996, which appeared in Miracles on the Border: [...]

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