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The Museum of Modern Art donated its Art Reference Photo Files to the Frick Art Reference Library in 2001.  The vast collection  includes approximately 47,000 photographs and other reproductions of works of art organized into 5,706 artist files and subject files.    

From the time of the 2001 donation, staff of the Frick Art Reference Library have been creating records that describe the files of individual artists.  Records describing each of the 5,000+ files will be added in installments to Arcade, the catalog shared by the Frick, MoMA, and Brooklyn Museum.  The first installment of 1,700 records can now be accessed through Arcade (to search: http://arcade.nyarc.org; to browse all MoMA photoarchive records: http://tiny.cc/orrdk) and WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org).  

A complete listing of the artist names and subject headings represented in the collection can be found in the Guide to the Museum of Modern Art Reference Photo Files, which is available at the Museum of Modern Art Queens Library Archive and the Frick Art Reference Library (http://arcade.nyarc.org:80/record=b483314~S1). 

The files are available for study in the Reading Room of the Frick Art Reference Library during regular library hours (Monday–Friday 10:00-5:00 and Saturdays, September–May, 9:30-1:00). For further information about visiting the Frick, see the website (http://www.frick.org/library/information.htm) or contact the Reference Staff at [log in to unmask] or 212-547-0641.

The MoMA gift supplements a much larger body of information already in Arcade that offers records about our holdings of more than 37,000 artists represented in the Frick Photoarchive Collection. To learn more about our collection, please see http://frick.org/photoarchive/index.htm. A recent blog post on the NYARC site may also be of interest: http://nyarc.org/content/photographic-study-collections-consolidated.

 

 

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Lily Pregill
Arcade Project Coordinator and Systems Manager
Frick Art Reference Library
10 East 71st St.
New York, NY 10021
919.533.6629 or 917.399.7703 (cell)

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Arcade is a collaborative project of the Frick Art Reference Library and the libraries of The Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum.

 

 

 

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