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Hello Yulpub - <br><br>
(Beware - long message!)<br><br>
Many of you have been helpful in letting me know what ARTstor
(<a href="http://www.artstor.org/" eudora="autourl">www.artstor.org</a>)
collections you and your faculty use...so much so that I wanted to send
out a message summarizing what's what / what's new with ARTstor.
While you can easily find all this info from the ARTstor web site
yourselves, I wanted to call your attention to the collections with this
summary. <br><br>
If you have any questions about ARTstor collections or how the database
works, how the presentation tool works, feel free to contact me or point
your faculty directly to me. I would also be willing to go over some of
our other digital image collections such as the Digital Library and
Insight collections. <br><br>
Hannah<br>
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<b>The Image Gallery</b>: ARTstor's charter collection with ~400,000
images and not all are specific to art/architecture. These images
come from various places and are derivatives of a wide variety of
media...35 mm slides, photographs, books, original artwork, etc.
Below is a list of all the collections included in the Image Gallery
only. I have <font color="#800080"><b>noted in bold
purple</b></font> those collections that are still in development.
I have also noted other places where select collections are available,
e.g. our Insight Collections, freely available online, etc.
<br><br>
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</x-tab>-
<font color="#800080"><b><i>ACSAA Collection</b></font> = American
Council for Southern Asian Art Color Slide Collection</i> (University of
Michigan): ~ 5,000 images with an
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>additional 7,000
images to be released later this year or in early 2007. To locate these
images most readily, do a keyword search for "ACSAA." <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- <i>Andrew
Dickson White Collection of Architectural Photographs</i> (Cornell
University Library): ~1,400 images of 19th- and early 20th-century
photographs of
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>architecture,
decorative arts and sculpture in Europe and U.S. Do a keyword
search for "Dickson and Cornell." <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>-
<font color="#800080"><b><i>Art, Archaeology and Architecture from Erich
Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives</b></font> </i>(Vienna): 300 of
the slated 10,000 high quality images are
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>currently
available. Covers world art and architecture, with focus on key artists
of the major European schools and collections of the major European
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>museums outside
Italy. Do a keyword search for “Erich Lessing.” <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- <i>ARTstor
Slide Gallery:</i> The University of San Diego allowed ARTstor to
digitize significant portions (~180,000) of its professionally cataloged
slide library. <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>
<font color="#800080"><b><i>- Contemporary Art from the Larry Qualls
Archive</i></b></font>: 3,000 of the slated100,000 images from the Larry
Qualls Archive are now available. This collection
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>covers New York
City contemporary art exhibitions in the last quarter of the 20th century
and the early years of the 21st, documenting prominent,
emerging,<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>and aspiring
artists. Do a keyword search for "qualls". <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- <i>Cuban
Heritage Collections </i>(University of Miami Library): Includes
the Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection and the Cuban
Postcard Collection
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>are
included. <b>You can also freely access these collections here:
<a href="http://digital.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/digitalcoll.shtml" eudora="autourl">
http://digital.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/digitalcoll.shtml<br><br>
</a></b><x-tab> </x-tab>
<x-tab> </x-tab>-
<i>Farber Gravestone Collection</i> (American Antiquarian Society):
includes ~13,500 images of funerary sculpture on more than 9,000 early
American grave
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>markers, mostly
made prior to 1800. There is some focus on the Middle Atlantic and
southeastern United States, the Maritime Provinces of Canada, and
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>Great Britian.
<b>This collection is also available through YUL's Insight
subscription. </b>Do a keyword search for
"Farber."<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><i>- First Fleet
Collection (Natural History Museum, London):</i> ~630 images: “The First
Fleet Collection" consists of watercolors by prisoners and sailors
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>associated with
the "First Fleet" of convicts that left England in 1787 for New
South Wales, Australia. The pictures form a record of the earliest
scenes,
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>people, plants,
and wildlife encountered by the first European settlers in
Australia. Do keyword search for "First Fleet." <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><i>- Ghiberti’s
“Gates of Paradise”:</i> ~800 images of the recently restored bronze
doors on the east side of the Florentine Baptistery, universally known as
the
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>“Gates of
Paradise” (in Italian, “Porta del Paradiso”). ARTstor is sponsoring the
comprehensive photographic documentation of the Gates of Paradise in
their
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>newly restored
state. This photographic campaign with nearly 800 details of Ghiberti's
relief sculptures. Do a keyword search for "GHIBERTI
QUATTRONE"
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>which will
retrieve only these new photographs (produced photographer Antonio
Quattrone).<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab><i>- Giza
Archaeological Expedition Archive (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston):</i>
~22,000 images of the MFA's pioneering series of archeological
excavations at
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>Giza, Egypt from
1902 to 1947. Do a keyword search for "Giza AND
Boston."<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- <i>Hill
Ornithology Collection (Cornell University Library): </i>~200 images of
ornithological illustration in the 18th and 19th centuries. <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- <i>Historic
American Sheet Music Covers </i>(Allan Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art
and Design): These images of sheet music cover the late 19th and early
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>20th centuries
(1898-1923). Do a keyword search for "sheet
music."<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>-<i> Illuminated
Manuscript Collection </i>(Princeton University Library): (3,417 images)
As part of the Index for Christian Art project, this initiative includes
the
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>digitization of
200 manuscripts classified by the Index of Christian Art. This is
an ongoing project to catalog 400 of the 500 Medieval and Renaissance
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>manuscripts
contained in the collection of the Princeton University Library, and to
digitize the illuminated leaves from these manuscripts. Do a keyword
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>search for
"INDEX OF CHRISTIAN ART."<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>
<font color="#800080"><b><i>Islamic Art and Architecture Collection
</i></b></font>(Shelia Blair, Jonathan Bloom, Walter Denny): ~5,500
images available of the slated 25,000 images; ARTstor is
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>collaborating
with these three faculty on the digitization of images of the art and
architecture of Islam from the personal archives of this team; focuses
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>include
Iran and Central Asia, the art and architecture produced under the
Mongols, calligraphy and books. Islamic art and architecture, the history
of paper,
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>art in the
medieval Mediterranean world, the artistic traditions of the Ottoman
Turks, Islamic carpets and textiles, and issues of economics and
patronage in
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>Islamic art. Do a
keyword search on SHEILA BLAIR or JONATHAN BLOOM or WALTER
DENNY.<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>-
<font color="#800080"><b><i>Italian and other European Art from Scala
Archives</i></b></font>: ~1,100 images available of the slated 12,000; In
collaboration with Art Resource and Scala
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>Archives
(Florence, Italy), ARTstor will produce European art and architecture
digital images with a special focus on the archaeology, art and
architecture of
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>Italy and on the
collections of the major museums of Italy and other European countries.
<br><br>
<i><x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- Museum
Contributions:</i> <b>Also available through Yale's Insight
"AMICA" (aka AMICO 4.0) collection.</b> ~100,000 images. Many
of the museum images
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>currently in
ARTstor (about 100,000 at present) were originally part of the AMICO
library. Over 20 major art museums are represented in this collection.
<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- <i>Southeast
Asia Visions:</i> John M. Echols Collection (Cornell University Library):
~10,000 images. Collection of European travel accounts of Southeast Asia
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>dating between
1630 and 1930, from Cornell University Library's John M. Echols
Collection and Rare and Manuscript Collections. This collection provides
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>online access to
the visual content of more than 350 books and journal articles written in
English and French providing a comprehensive visual representation
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>of Southeast Asia
as recorded by Europeans. Do a keyword search on "VISIONS and
CORNELL."<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- <i>Tenniel
Civil War Cartoon Collection</i> (Allan Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art
and Design): ~55 images. <br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>- <i>Vesalius
Anatomical Illustrations </i>(Daniel Garrison, Northwestern University):
275 images; taken from Andreas Vesalius' pioneering treatise on human
<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab>
</x-tab>anatomy, entitled
On the Fabric of the Human Body (De humani corporis fabrica; first
published in 1543) <br><br>
<b>The Art History Survey Collection</b>: ~4,000 images This survey
collection has been defined on the basis of an "overlap
concordance" based on 13 standard art history survey texts. Images
are derived from 35mm-color photography, much of it original photography
produced from the object or monument, but some from high-quality
reproductions in the scholarly literature. <br><br>
<b>Carnegie Arts of the United States: </b>~4,200 images documenting
American art, Native American art, architecture, visual and material
culture. In 1956, Lamar Dodd, then chairman of the University of
Georgia School of Art, initiated the "Study of Arts of the United
States" with funding from the Carnegie Corporation. The Study's
objective was to employ state-of-the-art technology to create an image
collection that would support the teaching of American art and history.
Dodd recruited an advisory board of six internationally recognized
scholars, who in turn enlisted 17 specialists to select a large body of
examples of American architecture, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, the
decorative arts, costume design, photography, the theater, and Native
American art. The archival set of 4x5 color negatives has been digitized
for distribution within ARTstor. The libraries of the University of
Georgia and Yale University have jointly prepared online cataloging
information for each image. <br><br>
<b>Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts:</b> ~17,000 images
taken from the archival slide collection of Hartill Art Associates, Inc.
Focuses on architectural history of the Western world from earliest
antiquity through the present, and from the Middle East to the Americas.
Particular focus is on European medieval architecture and sculpture of
the Romanesque and Gothic periods with modern architecture and sculpture
"well represented."<br><br>
<b>Huntington Archive of Asian Art:</b> ~12,000 images selected and
digitized from the John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist
and Related Art at Ohio State University. Countries covered in the
collection include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
Nepal, China, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, and Myanmar. Works photographed
date from 3000 B.C. through the present. (Not to be confused with the
Mellon International Dunhuang Archive.)<br><br>
<b>Illustrated Bartsch:</b> ~50,000 images of old master European prints
(engravings, etchings, woodcuts, etc.) from the 15th Century to the early
19th Century. The collection is derived from <i>The Illustrated
Bartsch</i> (96 volumes, Norwalk, Ct., Abaris Books, 1978 - ). The
original Bartsch is based on Adam von Bartsch's (1757-1821) authoritative
but unillustrated catalog of old master prints. The digitized collection
presently offers all of the images (scanned mostly from 5x7 in.
black-and-white photographic prints, made directly from the original
prints) and cataloging information found in this authoritative reference
work edited by general Editor Walter L. Strauss (1922 - 1988). <br><br>
<b>Mellon International Dunhuang Archive</b> (MIDA): Several thousand
digital images are the product of a major and ongoing
multi-institutional, multi-national effort to create digital
reconstructions of the mural paintings and related art and texts
associated with the several hundred Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang,
China. A second component involves digital images from direct digital
photography of the sacred and secular scrolls, manuscripts, textiles and
other objects once located at Dunhuang and now dispersed among museums
and libraries around the world (e.g., the British Library, the British
Museum, the Musée Guimet, the Bodleian Library, and the Bibliothèque
Nationale de France.) A third component involves the digitization
from the Lo Archive in Princeton of 2,500 black and white historic
negatives of the cave shrines taken in the 1940's. <br><br>
<b>MoMA Digital Design Collection:</b> ~8,000 images of objects from the
Department of Architecture and Design of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
in New York. The collection includes architectural drawings, models, and
photographs, graphic design materials such as posters, and
three-dimensional objects such as appliances, furniture, tableware,
tools, textiles, and sports cars. <br><br>
<b>Native American Art and Culture Collection</b>: 1) ~10,000
high-resolution images made from historic glass plate negatives
documenting Native American subjects (portraits, scenes, etc.) produced
under the auspices of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology
(BAE) beginning in the late 19th century. 2) ~ 2,000 images of Plains
Indian ledger drawings. Produced in the middle to late decades of the
19th century, these drawings represent an important indigenous artistic
tradition of great and increasing interest to art historians and other
scholars.<br><br>
<b>The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection: </b>~36,000
images<b> </b>is the product of a partnership between ARTstor and the
Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. These
images represent the work of both professional and amateur artistic and
documentary photographers, including the work of many women photographers
as well as men. Portraits of women's work in domestic service,
agriculture, and needlework, their employment in factories, and
opportunities in clerical work, nursing, medicine, and teaching, are
included. The photographic archive richly documents key participants in
the women's suffrage movement and larger women's rights movement, as well
as women involved in organized labor and vocational training. The
collection includes images of diverse women, including African Americans,
Asians and other immigrants. It also includes materials related to women
artists, such as sculptor and inventor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908). These
images provide a unique kind of documentation of women's history, which
ARTstor makes much more easily accessible to educators and scholars.
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And then...what's coming up in ARTstor Collections...again, you can
easily find this on-line but to summarize notable news in the last month
or so...
<ul>
<li>ARTstor, in partnership with the
<a href="http://www.sah.org/">Society of Architectural Historians</a>, is
pleased to announce its sponsorship of a forthcoming<b> Guide to Best
Practice for the use of Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR)</b> in
documenting archaeological, architectural and other cultural heritage
sites. <a href="http://www.iath.virginia.edu/">The Institute for Advanced
Technology in the Humanities</a> (IATH) at the University of Virginia is
coordinating the production of this much-needed guide.
<li>ARTstor recently sponsored a photographic campaign by Rob Wilkinson
and Colleen Chartier of <a href="http://www.artonfile.com/">ART on
FILE</a> a primary supplier of images to libraries and visual resources
collections supporting teaching programs in contemporary architecture,
urban design, landscape architecture and public art. ARTstor and ART on
FILE have now reached an agreement to digitize afresh, at very high
resolution, the entire <b>ART on FILE archive of images</b> which will be
made available as part of the ARTstor Digital Library.
<li>ARTstor has reached an agreement with Carl and Jennifer Strom of
Topanga, California, through which ARTstor will <b>digitize and
distribute the unique Strom Archive</b> of the art and architecture of
Korean Buddhist monasteries. The Strom Archive will significantly
strengthen and deepen ARTstor’s already strong collections of Asian Art.
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