Dear Colleagues,
ARTstor (www.artstor.org) announced today that sixteen art museums have
committed to share digital image collections and associated data through
ARTstor. Images and data from these collections will enhance ARTstor's
ability to provide broad-based access to art images for educational and
scholarly use in museums, colleges and universities, and the K-12
sector.
The contributing museums include:
The Art Institute of Chicago
www.artic.edu
The Cleveland Museum of Art
www.clevelandart.org
Dallas Museum of Art
www.dallasmuseumofart.org
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College
www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
www.thinker.org
Harvard University Art Museums
www.artmuseums.harvard.edu
The Frick Collection
www.frick.org
Kimbell Art Museum
www.kimbellart.org
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
www.lacma.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
www.metmuseum.org
Philadelphia Museum of Art
www.philamuseum.org
Smithsonian American Art Museum
www.americanart.si.edu
Victoria and Albert Museum
www.vam.ac.uk
The Walters Art Museum
www.thewalters.org
Williams College Museum of Art
www.wcma.org
Yale University Art Gallery
www.artgallery.yale.edu
Many of these museums have been participants in AMICO (Art Museum Image
Consortium), the pioneering digital initiative originally created by the
Association of Art Museum Directors. AMICO announced recently that it
would cease operations in July 2005, and expressed its intention to work
with ARTstor during a transition period to encourage member museums to
continue their efforts in collaboration with ARTstor. In addition to
these institutions that had previously contributed to AMICO, other major
art museums that will make parts of their image collections available
through ARTstor include the Kimbell Art Museum, Harvard University Art
Museums, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Williams College Museum of
Art.
These art museum partnerships will result in the sharing through ARTstor
of tens of thousands of very high quality digital images - images
carefully selected by museum curators representing both well-known
masterpieces and thousands of works of art that deserve to be better
known. Many of the hidden treasures of major art museums - such as the
textiles, photographs, and works on paper that are typically too fragile
to be on regular public view - will be available for study by scholars,
curators, and students at the more than 300 colleges, universities, art
schools and museums now participating in ARTstor. James Shulman,
Executive Director of ARTstor, noted that, "We are delighted that
ARTstor can serve as an avenue through which these extraordinary
institutions can make images of their works available for non-profit
educational use. In addition to adding many thousands of images of the
highest quality and museum-authorized cataloging data to the ARTstor
Digital Library, these collaborations represent exciting steps in our
effort to be a part of a community-wide effort. We look forward to
continuing partnerships with colleagues and friends at these and other
museums."
Please do not hesitate to contact us at 212-358-6400 or
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Best regards,
Barbara
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Barbara Rockenbach
Assistant Director for Library Relations, ARTstor
149 Fifth Avenue, 8th fl.
New York, NY 10010
Tel: 212.358.6400
Fax: 212.358.6499
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