The Guggenheim and Whitney Libraries are pleased to announce the completion of Art Resources from the Mid-20th Century: Digitized Highlights from the Libraries of Hilla Rebay and Juliana Force.  This project, funded by the generous support provided by the Metropolitan New York Library Council, was designed to make up to 60,000 pages of rare and unique materials from the libraries of Hilla Rebay and Juliana Force—the inaugural directors of the Guggenheim and Whitney, respectively—accessible online through digitization.   

Exceeding our expectations, we are pleased to announce the project allowed for the following:

1) The digitization of 81,031 pages, equivalent to approximately 600 publications;

2) The creation and launch of the project’s homepage on Internet Archive at  http://archive.org/details/artresources, where the digitized materials are now publically accessible;

3) The development and posting of a project summary on the Guggenheim’s website: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/library-and-archives/projects/guggenheim-whitney; and

4) The development and posting of a project summary on the Whitney’s website: http://whitney.org/Research/Library.

Highlights and Staff favorites from the project include:

The ferro-concrete style: reinforced concrete in modern architecture ; with 400 illustrations of European and American ferro-concrete design (1928) http://archive.org/details/ferroconc00onde

A history of American watercolor painting (1942) http://archive.org/details/historyofwatercolor00whit

The immortal words of Winston Churchill: memorable excerpts from his famous wartime speeches. (1965) http://archive.org/details/immortalword00chur

Forbidden art in the Third Reich: paintings by German artists whose work was banned from museums and forbidden to exhibit (1945?) http://archive.org/details/forbiddenart00inst

Edward Hopper (1931) http://archive.org/details/edwardhopper00dubo

Highlights: a cartoon history of the nineteen twenties (1931) http://archive.org/details/highcartoo00kirb

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Museum of Non-Objective painting: opening April 29, 1952, an exhibition showing the evolution in painting from 1900 to 1952 -- Academism, Impressionism, Expressionism, Cubism, Abstraction -- to Non-Objectivity. (1951) http://archive.org/details/solomonr00muse

Artists of the nineteenth century and their works : a handbook containing two thousand and fifty biographical sketches. (1879) http://archive.org/details/artninetee02wate

Enjoy!

Best regards,

Carol and Francine

Francine Snyder
Director of Library and Archives
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
345 Hudson Street, 12^th floor
New York, NY 10014 4502
Phone 212 360 4222
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Carol Rusk

Benjamin and Irma Weiss Librarian

Frances Mulhall Achilles Library

Whitney Museum of American Art

945 Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10021

212.570.3649