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New Images Available in Artstor

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Derek Churchill

Installation view of Splendors of China’s Forbidden City, exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, 2004-2005

New images have recently been added to some existing collections in the Artstor Digital Library:

Works in the Baltimore Museum of Art (including the famous Cone Collection)
Exhibition installations at the Dallas Museum of Art
Prints in the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

New Collections in ARTstor

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Derek Churchill

ARTstor is releasing quite a number of new image collections as 2011 draws to a close. For the complete list of new releases, click here. A few of the most interesting of these recent collections are listed below (you can get additional information by clicking on each link):

Baltimore Museum of Art (one of this region’s major institutions, most famous for its Cone Collection of late 19th- and early 20th-century modern art)
QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture (more of those fun 3-D “QuickTime Virtual Reality” [QTVR] panoramas from Columbia University; this update includes mainly sites in Japan and Chicago)
Via Lucis (Medieval religious architecture in France and Spain)
Museum of the City of New York (a treasure trove of historical views of the city, including photographs by Jacob Riis and Berenice Abbott)