Posted in Asian Art, Collections, Drawings and Watercolors, Prints, Release on January 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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.
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Posted in African Art, Collections, Drawings and Watercolors, Modern & Contemporary Art, Prints on January 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted in African Art, Asian Art, Collections, Drawings and Watercolors, Modern & Contemporary Art, Prints on January 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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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Posted in Drawings and Watercolors, Modern & Contemporary Art, Prints, tagged alberto giacometti, paris, post-war art on November 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Alberto Giacometti | Untitled, illustration 31, in the book Paris sans fin; 1969 | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | Art © Alberto Giacometti Estate/Licensed by VAGA and ARS, New York, NY | This work of art is protected by copyright and/or related rights and may not be reproduced in any manner, except as permitted under the ARTstor Digital Library Terms and Conditions of Use, without the prior express written authorization of VAGA, 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2820, New York, NY 10118. Tel.: 212-736-6666; Fax: 212-736-6767; Email: info@vagarights.com.
Alberto Giacometti moved from his native Switzerland to Paris as a young man in 1922 and lived there almost uninterruptedly until his death in 1966. He fell in love with the city and enjoyed wandering through its streets aimlessly, relishing the unexpected adventures that would ensue, like meeting fellow flâneurs such as Jean-Paul Sartre or Samuel Beckett, or even being struck by a car – an accident that led him to walk with a cane for years afterwards, but one that he credited as a positive turning point in his life. (more…)
Posted in Collections, Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects & Interior Des, Photographs, Prints on November 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
ARTstor and the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) are collaborating to share approximately 350 images of pochoir prints of interiors by well-known Parisian interior designers and photographic depictions of interior retail architecture and design in Paris dating from 1928-1932. (more…)
Posted in Humanities & Social Sciences, Literature, Prints, Renaissance, Baroque Art & Architecture in Europe, Shared Shelf, tagged Dante, Divine Comedy, free images, inferno, public domain on November 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Vincenzo Petroncini Gozzini | La Divina commedia, 1846 | Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library: Fiske Dante Collection
Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century epic poem Divina Commedia has had an incalculable impact on Western culture, not least through its inspiration of visual artists. After all, Dante’s descriptions of grotesque figures, fantastic landscapes, and inventive punishments virtually beg to be depicted visually. (more…)
Posted in American Art, Asian Art, Prints on June 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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.
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Posted in American Art, Asian Art, Collections, Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects & Interior Des, Paintings, Prints, Release on June 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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.
Posted in Collections, Modern & Contemporary Art, Museums, Paintings, Photographs, Prints, Release, Sculpture & Installations on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Louise Bourgeois| Maman, 1999 | Image and original data provided by ©The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York | Art © Estate of Louise Bourgeois / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. This work of art is protected by copyright and/or related rights and may not be reproduced in any manner, except as permitted under the ARTstor Digital Library Terms and Conditions of Use, without the prior express written authorization of VAGA, 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2820, New York, NY 10118. Tel.: 212-736-6666; Fax: 212-736-6767; Email: info@vagarights.com.
ARTstor and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation have released more than 750 images of major artworks from the permanent collection in the Digital Library. The images document the Guggenheim Museum’s superb holdings in modern and contemporary art by such significant artists as Louise Bourgeois, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Willem de Kooning, Paul Klee, Robert Mapplethorpe, Claes Oldenburg, Cindy Sherman, and Vincent van Gogh, among many others.
This is the first release of a projected 7,000 images of art, exhibition installation views, and architecture from the Foundation. Future releases will include 5,000 installation views spanning from 1990s to the present from the Guggenheim Museum in New York, more than 1,000 installations views from the museums in Bilbao and Venice, and 200 historical and contemporary photographs documenting the architecture of these three museum buildings.
“The Guggenheim is pleased to join ARTstor in sharing the breadth and diversity of the Guggenheim Foundation’s collection and archives with the educational community,” stated Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. “Education has been a central mandate of the Guggenheim since its founding in 1937. Through this collaboration, the museum further expands its reach by providing digital access to works in our collection, documentation of major exhibitions, and architectural photography of the Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry buildings.”
Christine Kuan, ARTstor’s Chief Curatorial Officer and Vice President for External Affairs, states: “These important images from the Guggenheim’s superb collections will be widely taught and studied via ARTstor Digital Library’s network of educational and scholarly users—impacting current and future generations of students, scholars, curators, and researchers around the world for many years to come.”
For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation page.
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Posted in Humanities & Social Sciences, Medieval Art & Architecture in Europe, On this day, Prints, tagged black cat, friday the 13th, medieval art, superstitions on April 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hishida Shunso | Black Cat, 1910 | Eisei Bunko Foundation, Tokyo, Japan | Huntington Archive of Asian Art
Everyone knows that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day, right? According to Wikipedia, there is no record of this superstition existing before the late 19th century, and different cultures ascribe the unfortunate day to Tuesday the 13th or Friday the 17th. Meanwhile, many superstitions popular in the Middle Ages did not make it to our era. Visit the Illustrated Bartsch collection of Old Master European prints in the Digital Library and search within it for superstition to find some surprising beliefs, such as “Digging for Coal Upon Seeing a Swallow Guarantees Freedom from Fever and Headaches for a Year,” and “Man Encountering a Goose, a Good Omen for the Day.”
In the mood for something spookier? Check out Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the scary side of ARTstor. And if you know of any other unusual superstitions (or have any of your own), feel free to share in the comments!
