New Collections and New Images Available in Artstor

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Derek Churchill

Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Kimbell Art Museum Expansion, 2007-2013, Fort Worth, Texas

As the school year winds down, Artstor has been busy adding new images, particularly in the area of contemporary art and architecture. Take a look at these new and expanded collections in the Artstor Digital Library:

The first installment of contemporary art images from the D. James Dee Archive, which documents the SoHo art scene since the 1970s
Thomas McGovern’s photographs of the AIDS crisis during the 1980s and 1990s
Works by contemporary artists Wangechi Mutu and Joseph Peller
Additional examples of contemporary architecture designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Additional images–mostly of Central Park in New York–from the Foundation for Landscape Studies
The collection of Andean ceramics at UCLA’s Fowler Museum

New Collections and New Images Available in Artstor

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Derek Churchill

Indian, Dancing Ganesh, 13th century, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville

Several new collections have been added to the Artstor Digital Library this semester, and a number of existing collections have also been enlarged. These new additions include:

Over 700 images of works in the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida
Nearly 1,000 images of works from the collection of Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens in Washington, DC
The art of Mexico–and especially of the Mexican muralists–in over 2,000 photographs by Bob Schalkwijk
20 images of works by contemporary artist Howardena Pindell
Additional images of contemporary Asian art from the Asia Art Archive
Contemporary architecture in Mexico City: additional images from Art on File
Additional images of modern and contemporary art in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Artstor Workshop

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Derek Churchill

Susan Davi and I will be offering an introductory workshop on Artstor on Tuesday, April 14, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm in 116A Morris Library. We will offer training and tips on how to find and download images, create image groups, and use the Offline Image Viewer (OIV) for classroom presentations. We will also discuss Artstor’s Shared Shelf and Shared Shelf Commons, two new ways the University of Delaware is working with Artstor to make our digital image collections available online.

For more information about the workshop, see the announcement in UDaily. Anyone is welcome to attend, but seating is limited. Please click here to register for the workshop.

Freer and Sackler Collections Online

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Derek Churchill

Chinese (Western Zhou), Bronze Fitting in the Form of a Tiger, ca. 900 BCE, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington

The Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian Institution’s museums of Asian art, released their entire digitized collections online on January 1, 2015. With the new Open F|S, you can now download high-resolution images of more than 40,000 works in the two museums, and you are permitted to use them for any non-commercial purpose.

The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington are among the nation’s most important collections of Asian art, with a particular strength in the arts of China. In addition, they are home to works from ancient Egypt, the Islamic world, and the United States, including James McNeill Whistler’s famous Peacock Room at the Freer.

You can read the press release about Open F|S here.

New Images Available in Artstor

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Derek Churchill

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl Reading, ca. 1770, National Gallery of Art, Washington

This month, new images have been added to the following collections in the Artstor Digital Library:

Perhaps most significantly, more than 24,000 additional images of works in the world-class collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington (note that you may also download larger versions of these images directly from the NGA’s own website)
600 additional images of works in the Dallas Museum of Art as part of the Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) program
3,000 additional images of Tibetan, Chinese, and Indian art and architecture by Rob Linrothe
Nearly 7,000 additional images from Franklin Furnace
1,000 additional images from Panos Pictures

Brewer Bookplates in Artstor

Posted on December 16, 2014 by Derek Churchill

William P. Barrett, The Library of George Frederick Ernest Albert Prince of Wales, 1904 (UD Library, William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection)

William P. Barrett, The Library of George Frederick Ernest Albert Prince of Wales, 1904, University of Delaware Library, Newark

The University of Delaware Library’s own William Augustus Brewer Bookplate Collection is the subject of a recent post in the Artstor Blog. The story highlights the Library’s collection of well over 12,000 bookplates dating from the 18th through 20th centuries, all of which can be viewed in Artstor.

The Brewer bookplates represent just one of many image collections from the UD Library that are available in Artstor. And even for non-Artstor subscribers, the Library’s collections are made freely available to anyone through the open-access Shared Shelf Commons.

New Collections in Artstor

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Derek Churchill

Frederic Remington, The Bronco Buster, 1895, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth

Among the recent additions to the Artstor Digital Library are the collections of several major North American art museums:

Works in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Works in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
Works in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Prints and photographs of Parisian interior design from the New York School of Interior Design
Architecture photographed by the scholars William L. MacDonald and John Pinto
New images have been also added to the collection of the American Institute of Indian Studies

Public Domain Book Illustrations in Flickr

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Derek Churchill

A new collection in Flickr assembles millions of images from copyright-free (pre-1923) books that had previously been digitized and placed online. The story of the technology behind this project is maybe even more interesting than the images themselves, as you can read about here.

You can also explore the Internet Archive Book Images photostream in Flickr.

New Images Available in Artstor

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Derek Churchill

George Caleb Bingham, The Country Election, 1851-1852, Saint Louis Art Museum

New images have recently been added to the Artstor Digital Library:

More than 5,000 additional images of works in the J. Paul Getty Museum
More than 800 additional images of works in the Saint Louis Art Museum
Nearly 3,000 more images of Cyprus and the Mediterranean world from Allan Langdale
More than 60 images of community murals and public art from San Anto Cultural Arts in San Antonio, Texas
Also, there are now more than 100,000 images in Shared Shelf Commons, including thousands from the University of Delaware Library

Art Museums in the News

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Derek Churchill

Rembrandt, Self-Portrait in a Cap, Open-Mouthed, 1630, Morgan Library and Museum, New York

Here are a few recent stories of interest from the museum world:

The Morgan Library and Museum in New York has digitized its entire collection of Rembrandt etchings. A new online collection of about 500 images lets you explore nearly all of the prints made by Rembrandt during his lifetime. These are not Open Access images, so you cannot do whatever you want with them, but you are permitted to download them for personal, educational, or noncommercial use.
The late Richard Mellon Scaife, who died earlier this month, has left roughly half of his art collection to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The rest of his collection will go to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania (near Pittsburgh). There are few details about the nature of the collection itself, but it is said to consist mainly of American works.

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New Collections and New Images Available in Artstor

New Collections and New Images Available in Artstor

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New Images Available in Artstor

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