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.
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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