Collections & services
Seattle Art Museum
Overview
ARTstor is partnering with the Seattle Art Museum to share more than 2,500 high-quality images of works in the museum's permanent collection. The collection will offer superb representations of non-Western art, as well as selections of major works from the permanent collection of nearly 25,000 objects from a wide range of cultures and time periods. The museum is renowned for its collection of Asian art, including holdings from Japan, China, Korea, India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia; as well as its holdings in African, American, European, modern and contemporary, Native and Meso-American, and Oceanic and Aboriginal art. In addition, the museum received several outstanding European paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, which were donated in 1961. The Seattle Art Museum will also be contributing images of its Kress paintings to the ARTstor Digital Library's Kress Collection.
TheSeattle Art Museum was founded in 1933. In 1991, the museum opened a new facility designed by Robert Venturi in downtown Seattle. The original museum building in Volunteer Park was reopened as the Seattle Asian Art Museum in 1994 and a third venue, the Olympic Sculpture Park, opened in 2007. That same year, the museum completed a major expansion of its downtown location to accommodate its growing collections and exhibition and outreach programs.
Collection information
| Total size of collection* | 2,500 |
|---|---|
| Percentage of completion | 0% |
* Image totals should be regarded as an approximation until a given collection is 100% complete. Users should also bear in mind that the number of images available to them may vary from country to country, reflecting ARTstor’s approach to addressing an international copyright landscape that itself varies from country to country.
Last updated: November 7, 2008