The Archives of American Art has launched its redesigned website at
http://www.aaa.si.edu. The new site has been developed to accommodate the
Archives' growing number of digital images and resources, and to foster
research from its vast holdings as the world's largest repository of primary
source documentation on the visual arts in America.
Highlights of the re-designed site include:
Digital Collections, a gateway to access the Archives' extensive online
resources, including digitized documents, oral history interviews,
exhibitions, fully digitized collections, and Curator's Choice selections
Collections A-Z listing the Archives' holdings of over 5,000 collections,
and Oral History Interviews listing nearly 2,000 interviews, incorporating
links from each entry directly to the Archives' online catalog description
and to finding aids.
Special Focus Guides providing an opportunity to explore AAA's collections
through specific topics and material formats.
A revamped database driven design for reporting news, acquisitions, and
other updates, and improved navigation to facilitate using the collections
and asking reference questions.
Noteworthy new resources available at www.aaa.si.edu are:
Search Images, providing multiple searching options for access to thousands
of photographs, letters, sketches and sketchbooks, rare printed materials,
and ephemera, with more added daily.
The Guide to Diaries in the Archives of American Art, including a companion
site providing in-depth access to the five volume diary of 19th century
Hudson River School painter Jervis McEntee
Visual Thinking: A Guide to Sketchbooks, enhanced with a Curator's Choice
exhibit of digitized sketchbooks selected by the Archives' Curator of
Manuscripts.
Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Archives of American Art
Online access to the complete papers of art critic and painter Walter
Pach.
The Archives' website re-design was made possible by the generous funding
of the Terra Foundation for American Art, as part of a five year, $3.6
million grant to increase access to the Archives' resources through
digitization. Additionally, specialized content development was supported by
the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc., the Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation
(formerly the Beinecke Foundation), the Getty Grant Program, the
Smithsonian's Women's Committee, and the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation
Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.
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