ARTstor Collections Summary 2008
In 2008, the community continued to contribute important and unique collections to the ARTstor Digital Library. ARTstor released 22 new collections, added content to 21 existing collections, and reached agreements with 33 new museums, photoarchives, libraries, scholars, professional photographers, and artists and artists’ estates. The ARTstor Digital Library collection now totals 890,000 images and will soon include nearly 1,000,000 images with the release of the Magnum Photos collection in early 2009.
New collections launched (22)
- Asian Art (Connecticut College)
- Brian Davis: Architecture in Britain
- Cave Temples at Ellora, India (Deepanjana Danda Klein and Arno Klein
- Century Magazine Illustrations of the American Civil War (Minneapolis
College of Art and Design) - Contemporary Art (Franklin Furnace)
- Cornell Fine Arts Museum (Rollins College)
- Council of Independent Colleges Historic Campus Architecture Project
(CIC HCAP) - David Wade: Pattern in Islamic Art
- European Architecture and Sculpture (Sara N. James)
- Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto)
- Ferguson-Royce: Pre-Columbian Photography (University of Texas at Austin)
- Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings
- Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
- Mellink Archive (Bryn Mawr College)
- Mexican Retablos (Jorge Durand and Douglas Massey)
- Minneapolis College of Art and Design
- Moreen O’Brien Maser Memorial (Skidmore College)
- The Phillips Collection
- Ralph Lieberman: Architectural Photography
- Terra Foundation for American Art
- Wayne Andrews: Architecture (Esto)
- World War I and II Posters and Postcards (University of Minnesota Libraries)
Expanded collections (21)
- A.C. Cooper and Related Archives (Frick Art Reference Library)
- Art, Archaeology, and Architecture (Canyonlights World Art Image Bank)
- Art, Archaeology, and Architecture (Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives)
- ARTstor Slide Gallery
- Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations
(Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University) - Classical Sculptures (Berlin State Museums)
- Community Murals (Timothy Drescher)
- Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art (ART on FILE)
- Contemporary Art (Larry Qualls Archive)
- Exhibition Installation Photographs (The Museum of Modern Art Archives)
- Images for Academic Publishing (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Islamic Art and Architecture (Sheila Blair, Jonathan Bloom, Walter Denny)
- Italian and European Art (Scala Archives)
- Manuscripts and Early Printed Books (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)
- Mark Rothko
- Mellon International Dunhuang Archive
- Modern Latin American Art (Jacqueline Barnitz, University of Texas at Austin)
- QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture (Columbia University)
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Sansoni Archive (Frick Art Reference Library)
- Architecture of Venice (Sarah Quill)
New collection agreements (33)
- American Institute of Indian Studies
- Asian Art (Connecticut College)
- Beyond the Taj: South Asia Architecture and Landscape (Cornell University Library)
- Charles Moore Archive
- Contemporary Architecture in Spain (ART on FILE)
- Contemporary Art (Franklin Furnace Archives) additional images
- Cornell Fine Arts Museum (Rollins College)
- David Wade: Pattern in Islamic Art
- Dov Friedman: American and European Architecture
- Eugene James Martin
- European Architecture and Sculpture (Sara N. James)
- George Eastman House additional images
- Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
- James Conlon: Contemporary Photographs of Mali and Yemen
- Judith and Holofernes
- Madeline Caviness: Medieval Stained Glass
- Magnum Photos
- Medieval Stained Glass (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain)
- Moreen O’Brien Maser Memorial (Skidmore College)
- QTVR Panoramas of Mali (Columbia University)
- Ralph Lieberman Archive (Harvard University)
- Ralph Lieberman: Museum Architecture Photo Campaign
- Renaissance and Baroque Book Illustrations (Warburg Institute)
- Rob Linrothe: Tibetan and Buddhist Art (Skidmore College)
- Seattle Art Museum
- Shangri La
- Shuilu’an Temple (Northwestern University)
- South Asian and Cuban Art and Architecture (Alka Patel)
- The Phillips Collection additional images
- Wang and Long: European and American Architecture (University of Texas at Austin)
- William Keighley (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- World War I and II Posters and Postcards (University of Minnesota Libraries)
