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Webinar: how we build collections–and how you can help!

Join us for a webinar discussing how we build our diverse collections on Wednesday, August 15th at 3:00 PM ET.

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Artstor launched a record number of images in 2017 across diverse subject areas—including photography, decorative arts, and modern and contemporary art—and 2018 promises to be another prolific year. In this webinar our in-house experts will present highlights from recent and upcoming releases and provide a look behind the scenes from the metadata perspective, with a focus on the challenges of collection-building and how to ensure optimal discoverability.

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Now available: College Art Museums collection launch part II

Grant Wood. January, 1938. 1938. Lithograph.

Helen Frankenthaler. Out of the Blue. 1985. Acrylic on canvas. Image and data provided by The Davis Museum at Wellesley College. Art © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Auguste Rodin. Désespoir (Despair). 1893 (cast in 1902). Bronze with green patina. Image and data provided by Tufts University Art Gallery.

Punu People. Mukudj Mask. 19th or 20th Century. Wood, pigment. Image and data provided by Williams College Museum of Art.

In this second installment of our college art museum collection launch (see our post about the first installment here), the Artstor Digital Library has released 14,000+ images from four additional institutions. Between the two launches, there are now more than 29,000 new images available to Artstor participants.* Highlights from this release include American and European paintings and works on paper, and historical objects from around the world.

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Upload your own images to Artstor with Personal Collections

Personal Collections are back! You can once again upload your own images to Artstor and work with them seamlessly alongside our collections. This functionality was temporarily halted as we built the new Artstor site. Visit our support site to learn about their new functionality.

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Now available: 2,600 additional images from the Williams College Museum of Art

Lu Chih, after. Cranes in a Landscape. Possibly 19th century. Painting on silk. Image and data provided by Williams College Museum of Art.

Govardhan (North India, Mughal). Holy Man. c. 1610-1615. Watercolor on paper, heightened with gold. Image and data provided by Williams College Museum of Art.

The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) has contributed 2,600 additional images of its permanent collection to the Artstor Digital Library, bringing their total to more than 2,750.* The selection in Artstor represents the Museum’s holdings across Western, African, Eastern, and ancient collections.

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Now available: 4,300 additional images from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

James McNeill Whistler. Nocturne. c. 1878. Wash lithograph on blue tinted chine collé. Image and original data provided by the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University.

The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (DAC) has contributed 4,300 additional images of works on paper from their permanent collection to the Artstor Digital Library bringing their total to more than 6,300.* The selection in Artstor includes many highlights, with an emphasis on western prints from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.

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Now Available: 7,600 additional images from the Davis Museum at Wellesley College

James T. Woolley. Footed Bowl. Early 20th century. Sterling silver. Image and data provided by The Davis Museum at Wellesley College.

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College (the Davis) has contributed an additional 7,600 images of its permanent collection to the Artstor Digital Library bringing their total to over 8,000.*

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Discover Artstor images in JSTOR

JSTOR users at institutions that also subscribe to Artstor may encounter a colorful surprise: some search results on JSTOR are now displaying image results from the Artstor Digital Library.

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More than 1 million images now publicly available at library.artstor.org!

Good news! Artstor has made more than 1 million image, video, document, and audio files from public institutional collections freely available to everyone—subscribers and non-subscribers alike–at library.artstor.org. These collections are being shared by institutions who make their content available via JSTOR Forum, a tool that allows them to catalog, manage, and share digital media collections and make them discoverable to the widest possible audience.

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Now available: highlights from the Tufts University Art Gallery

William Edward Norton. Untitled. 1876. Oil on canvas. Image and data provided by Tufts University Art Gallery.

The Tufts University Art Gallery has contributed 88 images of its permanent collection to the Artstor Digital Library.* The selection in Artstor accentuates the museum’s American holdings, predominantly paintings and works on paper from the nineteenth century through to the present.

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Now available: college art museums collection launch part I

Elihu Vedder. Natura: detail of head. c. 1893. Pastel, crayon, and graphite on paper. Image and original data provided by Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Style of Sajanu. Adoration of Parasurama. c. 1810. Opaque watercolor and gold. Image and data provided by Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Newsboy (Photographer). Harriett Vernon. 19th c. Image and original data provided by the University of Florida Digital Collections.

Artstor has now released 15,000+ images in the first part of our launch focusing on college art museum collections.* This release encompasses arts, crafts, and cultural objects in many media from around the world that are curated and housed in art museums at leading universities across America.

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