December 17, 2009

In 2009, ARTstor continued to expand the breadth and depth of the Digital Library by adding many important and unique collections. ARTstor released 25 new collections, added content to 19 existing collections, and reached agreements with 33 new museums, photo archives, libraries, scholars, professional photographers, and artists and artists’ estates. The ARTstor Digital Library now makes available more than 1,087,000 images in the US and more than 860,000 images internationally.

New collections launched (25)

• American Institute of Indian Studies
• Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD) (University of Michigan)
• Hal Box and Logan Wagner: Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (University of Texas at Austin)
• Brooklyn Museum Costumes (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Madeline Caviness: Medieval Stained Glass
• James Conlon: Mali and Yemen Sites and Architecture
• Dura-Europos and Gerasa Archives (Yale University)
• Dov Friedman: American and European Architecture
• Gazette du Bon Ton (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
• Latin American Art
• Christopher Long: Central European Architecture (University of Texas at Austin)
• Magnum Photos
• Eugene James Martin
• The Museum of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture
• National Gallery of Art
• Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
• Alka Patel: South Asian and Cuban Art and Architecture
• Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College)
• Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography
• SAHARA (Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive)
• Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
• Shuilu’an Temple (Northwestern University)
• Carl Strom and Jennifer Strom: Korean Buddhist Monasteries
• Wilfried Wang: Modern Architecture (University of Texas at Austin)
• The Warburg Institute

Expanded collections (19)

• Art, Archaeology, and Architecture (Canyonlights World Art Image Bank)
• Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD) (University of Michigan)
• Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations (Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University)
• Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art (ART on FILE)
• Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive) 3 releases
• Cook’s Voyages to the South Seas (Natural History Museum, London)
• Exhibition Installation Photograph Collection (The Museum of Modern Art Archives)
• Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchives
• Images for Academic Publishing
• Roy Lichtenstein 2 releases
• Ralph Lieberman: Architectural Photography
• Magnum Photos
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Minneapolis College of Art and Design Collection
• Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College)
• Mark Rothko
• The Samuel H. Kress Collection
• Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto) 2 releases
• The Warburg Institute

New collection agreements (33)

• Barbara Anello: Photographs of Southeast Asia and Morocco
• David Boggett: Art, Architecture, and Festivals in Japan (Smith College)
• The City College of New York, The City University of New York
• Herbert Cole: African Art, Architecture, and Culture (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art (ART on FILE) additional images
• Le Corbusier (Dalhousie University)
• Foundation for Landscape Studies
• Judith and Holofernes (Jessica E. Smith and Kevin R. Brine Charitable Trust) additional agreements
• William Keighley (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) additional images
• Ellsworth Kelly
• Latin American Art
• The Museum of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture
• National Gallery of Art
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University additional images
• Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin)
• Rescue Public Murals (Heritage Preservation)
• Richard F. Brush Art Gallery (St. Lawrence University)
• Diego Rivera (Detroit Institute of Art)
• Milton Rogovin: Social Documentary Photography
• Mark Rothko additional images
• Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography
• SAHARA (Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive)
• Saint Louis Art Museum
• The Samuel H. Kress Collection additional agreements
• Emilio Sanchez Foundation
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Sites and Photos
• Smith College Museum of Art
• Beverly Willis
• Robert Winter: Architecture of California (Occidental College)
• World Monuments Fund
• Yao Ceremonial Artifacts (Ohio University)
• Fondazione Federico Zeri (Università di Bologna)

2009 MLA Annual Convention
Philadelphia, PA
December 27 – 30, 2009

ARTstor staff will attend the 2009 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from December 28 to December 30. An ARTstor representative will be available at booth # 809 in the Franklin Hall at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. For more information about the conference please see the MLA website.

ARTstor has collaborated with Christopher D. Roy to share approximately 3,500 images of African art and culture, now available in the Digital Library. The collection features images of West African art and culture, including ceremonial objects as well as documentation of their social context, use, and manufacture, such as performances employing masks, or techniques used in producing pottery, iron, leather, and weaving. Roy is Professor of Art History and Elizabeth M. Stanley Faculty Fellow of African Art History at the University of Iowa. Since 1970, he has been photographing the rural villages and towns of the Bobo, Bwa, Fulani, Lobi, Mossi, and Nuna peoples in West Africa—primarily in Burkina Faso, but also in Ghana, Nigeria, and Niger.

To view the Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography.” Or search the keyword: “christopher roy”.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography collection page.

Related collections:

• Richard F. Brush Art Gallery (St. Lawrence University)
• Yale University Art Gallery
• James Conlon: Mali and Yemen (Columbia University)
• Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale University)

Approximately 1,400 new images from Ralph Lieberman are now available in ARTstor. This latest release includes architecture and public sculpture in the United States, particularly museum architecture, in the Midwest (Chicago, IL; Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland, OH; Toledo, OH; Detroit, MI), and New England (Boston, MA; Williamstown, MA; and New Haven, CT). Lieberman, an art historian and photographer, has previously photographed the architecture and public art of Philadelphia, PA, for ARTstor. ARTstor is also sponsoring an ongoing campaign for Lieberman to document museum architecture; future releases to the collection will feature additional sites in the United States, Canada, and Spain. In addition to sponsoring new photography by Lieberman, ARTstor has also partnered with Harvard University to digitize the Ralph Lieberman Archive of Renaissance and Baroque Architecture.

To view the Ralph Lieberman: Architectural Photography collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Ralph Lieberman: Architectural Photography.” Or search the keywords: “ralph lieberman”.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Ralph Lieberman: Architectural Photography collection page.

Related collections:

• Ralph Lieberman Archive (Harvard University)
• Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art (ART on FILE)
• Wilfried Wang: Modern Architecture (University of Texas at Austin)
• Dov Friedman: American and European Architecture
• Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto)

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 images augment ARTstor’s representation of Latin America and future releases will include additional images of colonial, modern, and contemporary art from Latin America.

To view the Latin American Art collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Latin American Art.” Or search the keywords: “latin american art” “private collection”.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Latin American Art collection page.

Related collections:

• Jacqueline Barnitz: Modern Latin American Art (University of Texas at Austin)
• The Museum of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture
• Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive)
• New Museum of Contemporary Art collection page
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

ARTstor is partnering with the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara to share approximately 1,000 images of African art, architecture, and culture from the archives of Herbert Cole. Cole is Emeritus Professor of Art History in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The collection in ARTstor will consist of Cole’s field photography, which depicts African art, architecture, sites, and culture from Nigeria, Ghana, the Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Kenya. Also included are photographs taken by Cole of African objects in private collections around the world.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Herbert Cole: African Art, Architecture, and Culture (University of California, Santa Barbara) collection page.

Related collections:

• Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography
• James Conlon: Mali and Yemen Sites and Architecture
• Richard F. Brush Art Gallery (St. Lawrence University)
• Yale University Art Gallery
• Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale University)

ARTstor is collaborating with the Smith College Museum of Art to share approximately 3,000 images of works from the museum’s permanent collection in the Digital Library. The Smith College Museum of Art has one of the nation’s finest teaching collections with approximately 22,000 objects. Encyclopedic in scope, the permanent collection has strengths in European and American art from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as holdings in Asian, African, and Latin American art and Classical antiquities. Of particular note is the depth and quality of the museum’s collections of prints, drawings, and photographs, more than 17,000 of which are housed at the Cunningham Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs. After the initial release of images in ARTstor, the museum will share additional works as images become available over time.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Smith College Museum of Art collection page.

ARTstor is collaborating with The City College of New York to share approximately 1,800 images of works in The City College’s art collection in the Digital Library. The collection in ARTstor will consist of objects acquired by The City College from its founding in 1847 to the present day. These include ancient artifacts, plaster casts, and murals, as well as prints, drawings, and paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection also encompasses contemporary holdings, such as the David and Lenore Levy Collection of Contemporary Photography, which includes photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Marilyn Bridges, Lucien Clergue, Elliott Erwitt, Andreas Feininger, Larry Fink, Sally Gall, Ralph Gibson, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Dorothy Norman, and Gilles Peress, among others. Also represented are works acquired through Percent for Art, a program of The City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, which aims to bring public art to New York City’s civic architecture and public spaces. Percent for Art projects at The City College include works by contemporary artists such as Romare Bearden, Yeou Jui Cho, Lisa Dinhofer, April Gornik, Keith Haring, Susan Kaprov, Mary Ann Unger, and Kay Walkingstick.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit The City College of New York collection page.

Approximately 830 images from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum are now available in ARTstor. This first release of images to the collection includes paintings, drawings, and sculpture dating from 1901 to 1984. The complete collection in ARTstor will include all of the museum’s works by O’Keeffe, representing the entire range of O’Keeffe’s oeuvre, from her early experiments with abstraction to mature works. Subjects range from the artist’s iconic flowers and bleached desert skulls to nudes, landscapes, cityscapes, still lifes, as well as her highly innovative abstractions.

To view the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Georgia O’Keeffe Museum” or enter the keyword search: okeeffemuseum .

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum collection page.

Related collections:

• The Museum of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture
• The Phillips Collection
• George Eastman House Collection
• Carnegie Arts of the United States
• Terra Foundation for American Art
• Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Approximately 9,000 images and QTVR panoramas of architecture, landscape design, and the built environment from the Society of Architectural Historians’ (SAH) SAHARA project are now available in the Digital Library. SAHARA (Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive) is a community-built archive of digital images for teaching and research in the field of architectural history. SAH members, including scholars, architects, historic preservationists, and students, upload their own built environment images to SAHARA to be shared with the Society. The SAHARA collection in ARTstor consists of photographs that have been peer-reviewed by the SAHARA editorial board for their photographic quality and the accuracy of their descriptive information. Additional images will be added to the ARTstor Digital Library as the SAHARA archive grows over time.

To view the SAHARA collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “SAHARA” or enter the keyword search: asaharaig .

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the SAHARA collection page.

Related collections:

QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture (Columbia University)
Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design; and Public Art (ART on FILE)
Ralph Lieberman: Architectural Photography
Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto)
Wayne Andrews: Architecture (Esto)
The Museum of Modern Art: Architecture and Design