The eMuseum Network features over 1.6 million objects and images from 60 institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most records include links back to the collections database of the provider. The Network is hosted by Gallery Systems, creators of The Museum System (TMS) collections management software.
Category: What’s New
Finally! ARTstor to offer 35,000 Images from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
At last! ARTstor has entered into an agreement with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, to distribute approximately 35,000 images of European and American paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs, dating from the 13th-21st centuries.
Previously the Gallery’s presence in ARTstor was limited to 700 images of European paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, as well as two collections from its Department of Image Collections: the Clarence Ward Archive and the Foto Reali Archive.
From Medicine to Magic: Wellcome Images
The Wellcome Collection in London explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future. Wellcome Images provides access to over 100,000 images including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements. All images from the historical collections are available for any use free of charge.
Download ARTstor Groups of up to 150 Images
In addition to downloading image groups to PowerPoint, ARTstor’s latest feature now allows for bulk downloading of up to 150 images in a group to a zip file. See the short how-to video.
Now Available in ARTstor: Every Painting from the National Gallery, London
The ARTstor Digital Library now contains every painting in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art, London. More than 2,300 works of Western European painting are represented dating from the 13th-20th centuries. Read more in the ARTstor blog or view the collection in the ARTstor Digital Library.
Getty Embraces Open Content
Approximately 4,600 images from the J. Paul Getty Museum are now available in high resolution on the Getty’s website free of charge to be used for any purpose. Future plans are to make available all content to which the Getty holds all rights or that are in the public domain. James Cuno, Getty President and CEO, writes: “In its discussion of open content, the most recent Horizon Report, Museum Edition stated that ‘it is now the mark—and social responsibility—of world-class institutions to develop and share free cultural and educational resources.’ I agree wholeheartedly.” Read Cuno’s complete post on Iris, The Online Magazine of the Getty. Access all free images or search via the online collection and look for individual download links.
Albers’s Interaction of Color Released as App
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, Yale University Press has released an app for the iPad with 60 interactive studies, the full text of the book in the original typeface and columns, and two hours of video footage. See the review.
Presentation Software Alternatives
Looking for an alternative to PowerPoint? Most of us are aware of the nearly perfect fit of the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) for art history presentations. Want to work mobile? Take a more experimental less linear approach? Prezi along with four other PowerPoint alternatives are reviewed in this PC World article. While most are perhaps better suited to business, Prezi is worth checking out for your next art history presentation.
50 Images from Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity Now Available
Did you see the groundbreaking Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity exhibition at the Met? The Williams VRC Collection now contains 50 images from the exhibition, including little-known works by Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot and installation views. Search “fashion modernity” for the complete set.
Curating Online Exhibitions
Would you like your students to explore a new method for presenting their writing, images, artwork, or ideas? Does an alternative to Microsoft Word and/or PowerPoint sound appealing? Are you looking for a new way to combine text and images? Omeka is a web-publishing platform that builds digital exhibitions. More and more schools are incorporating online exhibitions into their courses. Students can curate class-wide exhibits, present preliminary paper ideas, or create portfolios of their personal artwork. Please contact Amy McKenna, Assistant Visual Resources Curator, to learn more!