Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We wanted to share with you a few ARTstor collection
highlights as the new academic year begins. This year ARTstor will offer nearly
one million images to users at more than 1,000 educational institutions
worldwide. Recent releases include more than 60,000 new images from exceptional
collections such as: Scala; the Bodleian Library; the Phillips Collection;
Canyonlights; Council of Independent Colleges (CIC HCAP); contemporary art
photographed by Larry Qualls; Columbia University Quicktime Virtual Reality
(QTVR) panoramas of
New collaborations on forthcoming collections include: field photographs and
Indian monuments and architecture from the American Institute of Indian
Studies; Columbia University QTVRs of Mali, West Africa; stained glass from the
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) and the National Monuments Record (NMR);
medieval stained glass from Madeline Caviness; performance art from the
Franklin Furnace Archives; Islamic art from Shangri La; images of South Asia
and Cuba from Alka Patel at University of California, Irvine; contemporary
architecture in Spain photographed by ART on FILE; and Renaissance and Baroque
book illustrations from the Warburg Institute. For full collections
descriptions, please visit our website:
http://www.artstor.org/what-is-artstor/w-html/collection-status.shtml
In addition, there are now more than 3,500 images from the
Metropolitan Museum of Art available through our free scholarly publishing
service Images for Academic Publishing (IAP). This fall a new collection of
3,900 images from
As always, we invite feedback and recommendations on all
these efforts as we continue to work with the academic and museum community.
Sincerely,
Christine Kuan
Director of Collection Development
ARTstor