The Phillips Collection is now represented in ARTstor with over 1,000 images of Modern and Contemporary art from around the world.
In 1921, the Phillips Collection opened to showcase the collection of Duncan Phillips (1886-1966) and is the first museum of Modern art in the United States. Phillips founded the museum in his private residence, a Georgian Revival building located in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle neighborhood. He built his collection on the premise that artists are influenced by their predecessors, thereby purchasing works by El Greco and Jean-Simeon Chardin as foreshadowings of later Expressionist and Modernist painting. From these foundations, Phillips would acquire works by European masters such as Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Paul Cézanne, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edouard Vuillard. Renoir’s masterpiece, Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-1881), is the museum’s best-known work. Phillips also collected works by American artists, including Richard Diebenkorn, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence, Maurice Prendergast, Mark Rothko, Albert Ryder, and James Abbot McNeill Whistler, among others. In addition, Phillips supported emerging artists like Milton Avery, Arthur Dove, John Marin, and Georgia O’Keeffe, purchasing their works to provide them with the means to continue their artistic vocations. Over the course of 50 years, Phillips and his wife Marjorie would amass a collection of over 2,000 works. Since Phillips’ death in 1966, the museum has continued to add to its permanent collection, which now comprises nearly 2,500 works by artists from around the world.

To locate these images in the ARTstor Digital Library, you may browse to view all the images included in this collection. From the welcome page, click on “ARTstor Collections” then choose “The Phillips Collection” from the resulting list.

For more information about this collection, see the Phillips Collection page.

The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and ARTstor announced today that the Council of Independent Colleges Historic Campus Architecture Project (HCAP) - the first national architecture and landscape database of independent college and university campuses – is now available for teaching and study through ARTstor, a nonprofit library that currently serves over 950 educational and other nonprofit institutions in the US and abroad.

HCAP includes over 4,000 images of 2,100 places of historical significance, as well as extensive information about buildings, landscapes, campus plans, and heritage sites of American higher education. Nearly 400 institutions have participated in the project.

HCAP is the outgrowth of increasing interest in campus history by many sectors of the educational community. Academic institutions are working to understand more completely their physical environments and how these environments relate to their educational mission, as well as wider historical trends. More information, including lists of participating institutions and sites documented, can be found on the HCAP website.

In announcing this collaboration, Richard Ekman, President of CIC, stated, “Offering HCAP materials through ARTstor’s Digital Library is a perfect fit, enabling campus planners, admissions and marketing officials, those thinking about new buildings, renovations, and historic preservation, and others in the ARTstor community to study this unique campus collection in the context of other architectural works. This partnership will amplify the project’s growing visibility and success, while continually exposing new audiences to the historical wealth contained in our nation’s independent college and university campuses.” James Shulman, Executive Director of ARTstor, added, “We have admired the campus architecture project ever since CIC took on this ambitious project. Now, we couldn’t be more excited that we have been able to collaborate and integrate this rich survey of campus architecture into the ARTstor Library. It is an enormous contribution not only for those who are interested in the architectural evolution of the US campus landscape, but for historians, sociologists, and other observers of higher education in this country as well. Integrating the collection with the 725,000 images in ARTstor makes both collections stronger. Our collaboration with CIC as an organization and with the nearly 600 colleges that work together with CIC on the issues affecting small colleges represents just the sort of meeting of networks that is needed to enable the creation of ever more rich and useful shared resources.”

The Council of Independent Colleges is an association of nearly 600 independent liberal arts colleges and universities and higher education affiliates and organizations that work together to strengthen college and university leadership, sustain high-quality education, and enhance private higher education’s contributions to society.

ARTstor is a nonprofit organization that makes available a growing digital library of images, as well as the tools to make active use of those images. More information on ARTstor can be found at www.artstor.org.

To locate these images in the ARTstor Digital Library, you may browse to view all the images included in this collection. From the welcome page, click on “ARTstor Collections” then choose “Historic Campus Architecture Collection (Council of Independent Colleges)” from the resulting list.

The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) has received a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop the SAH Architecture Visual Resource Network (SAH AVRN) a dynamic online library of architectural and landscape images for research and teaching. To develop content for SAH AVRN, SAH is collaborating with scholars and librarians from partner institutions, initially MIT, Brown University and the University of Virginia to contribute images and metadata to SAH AVRN, a shared resource that will be widely available. Initially images will be contributed to SAH AVRN by scholars at the same three institutions who have agreed to share thousands of their own images that were taken for research and pedagogical purposes. To develop the technology for this online resource, SAH is working closely with ARTstor, building upon the existing ARTstor platform for storage, retrieval, viewing and presentation of images, and to develop tools to be used in conjunction with SAH AVRN.
For full description of the SAH AVRN project, please see: http://sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=AVRN&category=Main.

ARTstor has launched the first two of its instructional video series “ARTstor in 3 Minutes.” The instructional video series is now available on YouTube and on the ARTstor website:

• ARTstor in 3 Minutes: register for an ARTstor account walks users through the account creation process and explains the benefits of registering with ARTstor.
• ARTstor in 3 Minutes: download images to PowerPoint describes the steps required to download images and image details from ARTstor and add them to a PowerPoint presentation file.

ARTstor will continue to build and add new videos to the series and make them available through our website and on YouTube. Suggestions for new instruction topics are always welcome; contact userservices@artstor.org.

To find the videos, you can search for the keyword “artstor” within YouTube or go directly to www.youtube.com/artstor of from the ARTstor Online Training page.

The Spring 2008 edition of the ARTstor Newsletter is now available on our website. The ARTstor current edition, includes articles on the following:

• Participant Viewpoint: perspectives from Assistant Professor Keri Cronin and Visual Arts Librarian Laurie Morrison, Brock University
• Collections: New directions in ARTStor collection development, new collaborations, and additions to the digital library
• ARTstor Access Abroad: ARTstor’s expanding participation outside the United States
• Artists Rights Society Agreements: new online art agreement (OLA) expands ARTstor coverage of modern and contemporary artworks by European artists

The ARTstor Newsletter is available in printable PDF format online.

The CIC HCAP image collection of campus architecture will be released in ARTstor later this month. HCAP is the first national architecture and landscape database of independent college and university campuses. This project presents information about significant buildings, landscapes, campus plans, and heritage sites of American higher education and iden¬tifies sources for further research. Supported by grants from the Getty Foundation, the CIC HCAP documents nearly 2,100 places of historical significance on private college and university campuses. To date, nearly 400 institutions have participated in the CIC HCAP project that includes nearly 5,000 images relating to these sites.

For more information about this collection, see the Historic Campus Architecture Project (Council of Independent Colleges) page.

ARTstor will collaborate with the George Eastman House to add approximately 13,000 images to the ARTstor digital library. The world’s oldest museum of photography is currently represented in ARTstor by 4,875 examples of photographs, from early daguerreotypes to contemporary prints. The additional images will significantly increase the number of photographs available to ARTstor users for teaching and scholarship.

When complete, the collection will represent photographs ranging from early to contemporary photography and will include these highlights from the museum’s permanent collection:

• daguerreotypes produced by the Boston photographic firm of Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah John Hawes;
• portraits taken by Julia Margaret Cameron, known for her portrait studies of Victorian luminaries;
• portraits taken by Julia Margaret Cameron, known for her portrait studies of Victorian luminaries;
• figures from the Modernist Photo-Secession movement with works by Edward Steichen, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Gertrude Kasebier, and Francis Bruguière; photographs from other 20th century
• photographers, such as Margaret Bourke-White, Brassaï, Walker Evans, Andreas Feininger, Victor Keppler, Nickolas Muray, Arnold Newman, Arthur Rothstein, Aaron Siskind, Paul Strand, and Minor White.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the George Eastman House Collection page.

Through a partnership with ARTstor, Connecticut College will be contributing 381 images of Chinese and Japanese art to the Digital Library. The works that make up this collection were donated from several sources. The core is the Chu-Griffis Collection of Chinese paintings from the 15th to the 20th centuries, with a focus on landscapes and representations of flowers, birds, and other animals, as well as Japanese prints. The collection also includes two sets of Japanese woodcuts, from the Department of Special Collections at Connecticut College’s Charles E. Shain Library and from Caroline Black, former Professor and founder of the college’s Botany Department. Finally, there is a small set of Chinese ivory sculptures depicting Lohan figures (also luohan or arhat/arahant in Sanskrit), which was donated by alumna Kathryne C. Simons.

For more information on this collection, see the Asian Art Collection (Connecticut College) page.

ARTstor will add 1,000 images from the William Keighley Collection housed at The Metroplitan Museum of Art. This important collection documents the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela traveled by medieval pilgrims, with depictions of geographical terrain and exteriors/interiors of religious buildings, including architectural details, applied arts, and works of art.

The Metropolitan Museum’s Image Library houses the complete collection created by William Keighley (1889-1984), which contains 74,000 35mm color slides, divided into thematic sets. The “Pilgrimage Roads to Santiago de Compostela” set is one of these thematic groupings photographed around 1960. Prior to his death, Keighley donated his slide collection to The Metropolitan Museum of Art to educate the public on the unique art and architectural heritage of select areas of the world.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the William Keighley Collection page.

Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting
Cincinnati, Ohio
April 23rd –27th, 2008
ARTstor will host a booth in the exhibit area of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians. Kimberly Henrikson (ARTstor User Services Specialist) will be available to answer your questions about the digital library and our collections, and to demonstrate ARTstor features and functions.

Digital Library Federation Spring Forum
Minneapolis, Minnesota
April 28th -30th, 2008

ARTstor staff will attend the Digital Library Federation Spring Forum later this month and will present a Bird-of-a-Feather session:

• ARTstor — A Platform for Broad-scale Sharing of Digital Images
  April 29th 2:30-3:30 pm (Greenway J, Second Floor)
• This session will report on ARTstor’s institutional collections pilot program as well as our plans for Hosting Phase Two. We will also share ideas about leveraging the ARTstor technology platform to provide a more open environment for sharing digital image collections. James Shulman (ARTstor Executive Director) and Carole Ann Fabian (ARTstor Director of Strategic Outreach and User Services) will present.

Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Annual Conference
Denver, Colorado
May 1st -5th, 2008
ARTstor staff will attend the ARLIS/NA conference in Denver, Colorado and will participate in conference sessions and host a User Group meeting:

• Workshop: Cataloging Cultural Objects and Practical Applications in the Library.
  May 2nd 8:00am– 4:00pm (pre-registration required)
• Johanna Baumann (ARTstor Metadata Associate) will co-present on the relationship between VRA Core 4.0 and Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO).
• ARTstor User Group Meeting
  May 5th 12:00pm – 1:30pm (light lunch will be served)
• Learn about what’s new in ARTstor including new directions in collection development, our upcoming software release, and demonstration of our new large