Blog Category: Collection release

What’s new: Artstor Digital Library 2015 summary

Tlingit artist, leggings, ca. 1880. Image and original data from Portland Art Museum.

Jacki Apple & Martine Aballea, Artists Reading, 1977. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris, Moving image and original data provided by Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.; franklinfurnace.org

Neutelings Riedijk; Scheepvaart en Transport College, view of the northwest side of the building, 2005, Rotterdam. Image and original data provided by ART on FILE, artonfile.com

Rem D. Koolhaas, Two Libraries for Jussieu University (first floor section and condensed section), 1992. Data source: Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University and Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. © 2014 OMA AMO / Beeldrecht / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

David Wallace. Graces Can Be Grown. 2003. Image and data provided by Mattress Factory. © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Viscopy, Australia

The Artstor Digital Library now boasts more than two million images in all subjects and periods from more than 290 collections worldwide! In 2015 we added more than 200,000 new images, as well as our first video collection of 50 groundbreaking art performances from the Franklin Furnace Archives. We also reached new agreements with museums, galleries, artists, universities, and archives to keep the Digital Library growing in scope and comprehensiveness. And we continue to add new resources and expand existing ones. Check out our full lists:

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Now available: Worcester Art Museum

Cow, daguerreotype, 19th century. © Worcester Art Museum, all rights reserved.

Artstor and the Worcester Art Museum have released more than 2,000 images of artworks from the Museum’s permanent collection in the Digital Library. This are the first of 20,000 images that will eventually become available in Artstor.

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Now available: Mauritshuis

Willem van Haecht, Apelles Painting Campaspe, c.1630. Image and original data provided by the Mauritshuis, The Hague

Artstor and Mauritshuis are now sharing more than 500 images from the museum’s permanent collection in the Digital Library. This is the first installment of a projected total of 1,200 images.

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Now available: Portland Art Museum

Tlingit artist, leggings, ca. 1880. Image and original data from Portland Art Museum.

Artstor and the Portland Art Museum are now sharing more than 2,300 images of artworks, with a particular focus on Native American and Northwest art.

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Now available: additional images from French museums from the Réunion des Musées Nationaux

Vassily Kandinsky, Impression V (Park), 1911. Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. Image and original data provided by Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, N.Y.; artres.com

Through a collaboration with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN) and Art Resource, Artstor is now sharing more than 5,100 additional images of works in the permanent collections of French national and regional museums in the Digital Library.

This brings the total of RMN images in the Digital Library to more than 12,000. The images come from the archives of the Agence photographique de la RMN, which encompass the collections of 28 museums such as the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou.

This release is composed of an outstanding selection of modern art, including paintings by Balthus, Francis Bacon, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Natalia Goncharova, Marc Chagall, Tamara de Lempicka, Fernand Léger, André Masson, René Magritte, and Francis Picabia; sculptures by Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, André Derain, Jean Dubuffet, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and Joseph Beuys; works on paper by Pierre Alechinsky, Antonin Artaud, Edgar Degas, Paul Klee, and Victor Hugo; installations by Louise Bourgeois and Martial Raysse; rarely-seen reconstructions of architectural models by Kazimir Malevich, furniture designed by Le Corbusier, and documentary and self-portrait photographs by Constantin Brancusi; as well as more than 100 works by Vassily Kandinsky. The release also features thousands of ancient to medieval artworks from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

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Now available: the Francis Newton Souza Estate

Francis Newton Souza, Untitled, 1963. © Estate of F.N. Souza © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / DACS

Artstor and the Francis Newton Souza Estate have released approximately 900 images of the celebrated Indian painter’s artwork in the Artstor Digital Library.

Born in Saligoa, Goa, India in 1924, Francis Newton Souza became the first of India’s post-Independence modern painters to achieve high recognition in the West. His works can be found in major museum collections around the world, including Tate Britain and Tate Modern, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, the Wakefield Art Gallery, the Haifa Museum in Israel, the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas, Texas, the National Gallery of Modern Art in India, the National Gallery of Victoria in Australia, and the Glenbarra Museum in Japan. According to Indian art historian Yashodhara Dalmia, “At the heart of Souza’s creativity was the belief that society’s destructive aspects shouldn’t be suppressed, they should be aired and confronted.”

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Now available: 18,000 additional images from Condé Nast

Bruce Eric Kaplan, “Where does he get all his ideas?” Condé Nast; cartoonbank.licensestream.com. New Yorker Cartoons: Kaplan, Bruce Eric/The New Yorker Collection; Contact information: Content Licensing, 4 Times Square, NY, NY 10036; Tel No: 212-286-7147; licensing@condenast.com

Artstor has released approximately 18,000 additional images from Condé Nast in the Digital Library, including nearly 3,000 cartoons from The New Yorker and 15,000 fashion photographs from the Fairchild Photo Service.

Vivienne Westwood Red Label Fall 2013 Ready to Wear. Photographer: Giovanni Giannoni. Condé Nast; condenaststore.com | Fairchild Photo Service; Contact information: Content Licensing, 4 Times Square, NY, NY 10036; Tel No: 212-286-7147; licensing@condenast.com

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Now available: modern and contemporary art from the National Gallery of Art

Artstor and the National Gallery of Art have now released more than 11,000 images of modern and contemporary artworks from the museum’s permanent collection in the Digital Library.

Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes, 1963. Art ©Estate of Wayne Thiebaud / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. This work of art is protected by copyright and/or related rights and may not be reproduced in any manner, except as permitted under the Artstor Digital Library Terms and Conditions of Use, without the prior express written authorization of VAGA, 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2820, New York, NY 10118. Tel.: 212-736-6666, fax: 212-736-6767, email: info@vagarights.com. Image: Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Helen Frankenthaler, First Stone, 1961. ©2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image: Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington

Frank Stella, La scienza della fiacca (4x), 1984. ©2012 Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image: Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington

This release includes work from such important 20th- and 21st-century artists such as Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Louise Bourgeois, John Cage, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, William Kentridge, Franz Kline, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Georgia O’Keeffe, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Ruscha, Amy Sillman, Frank Stella, Wayne Thiebaud, and Richard Tuttle, as well as significant collections of the work of Richard Diebenkorn (1,200 pieces) and Mark Rothko (nearly 900 pieces).

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Now available: Abby Williams Hill from the University of Puget Sound

Artstor and the University of Puget Sound have released more than 120 images of works by the painter, activist, and writer Abby Williams Hill in the Digital Library.

Abby Williams Hill (b.1861) is best known for her commissions for the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways. Her railway works were exhibited at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, the Lewis & Clark Exposition in Portland in 1905, the Jamestown Tricentennial in 1907, and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle in 1909. These pieces, along with her other landscapes, offer a rich portrait of the natural landscape of the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The accompanying archive of papers and personal materials offer insight into Hill’s life and provides an example of the American experience between the Civil War and World War II.

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Now available: Avery/GSAPP Architectural Plans and Sections (Columbia University)

Rem D. Koolhaas, Two Libraries for Jussieu University (first floor section and condensed section), 1992. Data source: Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University and Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. © 2014 OMA AMO / Beeldrecht / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Artstor, the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), and the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library are now sharing approximately 10,000 images of architectural plans and sections and related materials in the Digital Library.

The collection, which is projected to include 20,000 images, is based on GSAPP’s history of modern architecture curriculum and covers the history of modern buildings, focusing primarily on 20th-century modernism, with a few earlier and later projects spanning from 1871 to 2013. Comprising 1,000 projects from 44 countries, the majority of them of built works, the Plans and Sections project also includes documentation of unbuilt projects and of competitions such as the Chicago Tribune Tower and the Lenin Library. This collaboration makes this rich body of visual material and related scholarship available online for the first time

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