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: Installation images from the Guggenheim Museum in New York City

David Heald, photographer | Frank Gehry: Architect | May 18 – September 4, 2001 | Photograph: © 2012 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

The ARTstor Digital Library and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation have collaborated to share nearly 5,500 installation views spanning from 1990’s to the present from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The images in this release include documentation of seminal exhibitions such as: Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective; The Worlds of Nam June Paik; James Rosenquist: A Retrospective; Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle; and Kandinsky.

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New agreement: Images of installations at the Mattress Factory

ARTstor Digital Library and the Mattress Factory have reached an agreement to share 12,000 images documenting installations exhibited at the museum since its opening in 1977.

The Mattress Factory is a museum of contemporary art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that specializes in installations created on site by artists from all over the world. The museum’s unusual galleries are located in two creatively reused buildings on the city’s historic North Side. Both buildings house a growing permanent collection, featuring works by James Turrell, Yayoi Kusama, Winifred Lutz, and Rolf Julius, as well as periodical exhibitions.

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Black History Month 2013

Jacob Lawrence | The Migration of the Negro, panel no. 3 | 1940 – 1941 |Image and original data provided by The Museum of Modern Art. © 2008 Estate of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Last year, we marked Black History month with a summary of some of the excellent resources on Black History available in the ARTstor Digital Library, including many collections that cover African art and culture. This year, we expand the list to include a variety of additional resources that focus on the lives and achievements of African Americans in particular.

Collections

Unidentified | African American woman and sweet peas | ca. 1920 | George Eastman House; eastmanhouse.org

Panos Pictures The independent photo agency specializes in documentary images of critical social issues, including thousands of images from the United States, many of them tackling issues affecting the lives of African Americans.

Milton Rogovin: Social Documentary Photographs Rogovin began his first photographic series in 1958 documenting African-American store front churches in Buffalo, NY, and would go on to record many other topics surrounding the black community.

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery (Scripps College) The Gallery includes the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection, which has a special focus on art by women and African-Americans, including Elizabeth Catlett, Samella Lewis, Faith Ringgold, and Alison Saar.

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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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New agreement: Images from the permanent collection of the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art

ARTstor is collaborating with the University of Florida to share more than 300 images from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.

The images consist of a selection of approximately 335 images of artworks representing the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art‘s five core collecting areas: African art, Asian art, modern art, contemporary art, and photography, as well as its holdings of Ancient American art, Oceanic art, and Prints and Drawings before 1850.

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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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Now available: Northwestern University Library, Ramón Casas sketchbooks

Ramón Casas | Untitled ; Ramon Casas in his studio painting a series of full-length portraits of Julia, with Julia in foreground adjusting her hat. | 1891-1912 | Image © Northwestern University Library

The Northwestern University Library and ARTstor have collaborated to share 116 images of sketches by Catalan artist Ramón Casas (1866-1932) in the Digital Library. These sketchbooks document the work of an under-represented artist who was influential in modernist art circles in Barcelona and Paris along with his peers John Singer Sargent, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and the young Pablo Picasso. The images will also be included in ARTstor’s Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) program.

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Now available: Additional images of works by Roy Lichtenstein

Through a collaboration with the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and Estate, ARTstor has made available an additional 831 images of Lichtenstein’s works in the Digital Library.

This fourth release of high-quality images of the artist’s work brings the total number of images in the Roy Lichtenstein collection to 2,002 images.

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