Museum of the City of New York

Shaykh Zada, Divan of Hafiz (folio 77r), ca. 1530, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Just this week, the Artstor Digital Library has released over 20,000 new images. New collections include the following:

Works of art in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums (Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum)
Photographs by Donald Woodman
Contemporary art installations at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh

The following collections in the Artstor Digital Library have also been expanded with additional images:

Works in the permanent collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the Museum of the City of New York
20th- and 21st-century architecture in Rotterdam from ART on FILE
New media art from the Rhizome ArtBase

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)

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New Collections and New Images Available in Artstor

New Collections in ARTstor