ARTstor Mobile

All 1.4+ million images from the ARTstor Digital Library are now accessible through Android-powered devices to registered ARTstor users! Simply go to artstor.org on your device, click the "Enter here" button, and then install the free app.

ARTstor Mobile for Android provides read-only features such as searching, browsing, zooming, and viewing saved image groups. Also try the Flashcard View, which allows you to test your knowledge by viewing the image without textual information, and then flipping the image to reveal the image record.

ARTstor Mobile is also available for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch through the Safari browser. There's no need to download special software, just go http://library.artstor.org from your mobile device.

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ARTstor Is… Black History

Black History Month is observed every February in the United States and there are many excellent resources in the ARTstor Digital Library.

Black history:

Image of the Black in Western Art A systematic investigation of how people of African descent have been perceived and represented in Western art spanning nearly 5,000 years.

Magnum Photos: Contemporary Photojournalism Some of the most celebrated and recognizable photographs of the 20^th century and contemporary life, documenting an astounding range of subjects, including hundreds of major figures and events in contemporary black history.

Eugene James Martin Vibrant abstract works by African American artist Eugene James Martin, including paintings on canvas, mixed media collages, and pencil and pen and ink drawings.

The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection Professional and amateur photographs documenting the full spectrum of activities and experiences of American women in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, including a significant amount of portraits of African American women.

Smithsonian American Art Museum Works of art spanning over 300 years of American art history, including selections from a collection of more than 2,000 works by African American artists.

African art and culture:

Richard F. Brush Art Gallery (St. Lawrence University) West African textiles from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Cape Verde.

Herbert Cole: African Art, Architecture, and Culture (University of California, Santa Barbara) Field photography of African art, architecture, sites, and culture from Nigeria, Ghana, the Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Kenya, as well as photographs of African objects in private collections around the world.

James Conlon: Mali and Yemen Sites and Architecture Images of sites and architecture in Djenné, Mopti, Bamako, Segou, and the Dogon Region in Mali.

Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University Images of African art, such as textiles, costumes, basket and bead work, weapons, tools, and ritual objects.

Christopher Roy: African Art and Field Photography Images of West African art and culture, including ceremonial objects and documentation of their social context, use, and manufacture from the rural villages and towns of the Bobo, Bwa, Fulani, Lobi, Mossi, and Nuna peoples in West Africa—primarily in Burkina Faso, but also in Ghana, Nigeria, and Niger.

Thomas K. Seligman: Photographs of Liberia, New Guinea, Melanesia, and the Tuareg people Images of the Tuareg people, a nomadic people of the Sahara who live in countries such as Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Burkina Faso, as well as photographs of sites and people in Liberia, New Guinea, and Melanesia.

Also, visit ARTstor’s Subject Guides page to download the African and African-American Studies Subject Guide.

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ARTstor- Chinese New Year

The Year of the Dragon begins January 23rd, marking the end of the winter season. The traditional Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements; the year begins with the night of the first full moon of the lunar New Year and ends on the 15th day. This year is signified by the dragon, the bringer of rain and good luck, and the only mythical animal in the Chinese zodiac.

The ARTstor Digital Library features extensive collections of Chinese art, architecture, and culture. Some notable examples include:

• Rob Linrothe: Tibetan and Buddhist Art collection; Seattle Art Museum (Asian art, including works from Japan, China, Korea, India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia);


• Asian Art Collection (Connecticut College) (Chinese art);


• Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD) (University of Michigan) (Chinese painting, sculpture, and decorative arts );


• The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Chinese ceramics);


• Mellon International Dunhuang Archive (Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China).

To view these collections, visit the ARTstor Digital Library and click on “Browse by Collection.”

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ARTstor: Art History Topics

The ARTstor Digital Image Library has launched 25 "Art History Topics," curated image groups based on major subject areas in the history of art and architecture. Each topic includes dozens of images of seminal works taught in introductory-level art history courses. Subjects include "Prehistoric Art," "Gothic Art,' Modern Art: Europe and the Americas," "The International Scene, post-1945," "African Art," and "Islamic Art." On the ARTstor Digital Library Search page, click on Browse > Featured Groups.

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ARTstor: Images of Pre-Columbian, African, Native North American, and Oceanic objects

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University has collaborated with the ARTstor Digital Library to share more than 3,300 images of Pre-Columbian, African, Native North American, and Oceanic objects from the museum’s permanent collection. Through this collaboration, ARTstor will distribute a total of approximately 154,000 images from the Museum’s collection and approximately 44,000 digital images of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Photographs of Mayan Excavations documenting archaeological excavations throughout Central America.

View the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University) at http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/harvard_peabody.

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Access to the Digital Library of Images

The ARTstor Digital Library now makes available over 1.3 million images in the United States. ARTstor also reached agreements for 26 new collections, including: Guggenheim Museum; the Courtauld Institute; Museum of the City of New York; Pre-Columbian Artifacts from the Kerr Archives; Columbia University: Architecture of Japan; ART on FILE: United Arab Emirates; Via Lucis: Medieval Christian churches in France and Spain; Julius Shulman (Getty Research Institute); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: University Library, and more.


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ARTstor: French Museum Collections

Through a collaboration with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN) and Art Resource, ARTstor has launched the first installment of nearly 4,000 of a projected total 12,000 images of works from the premier national and regional museums of France in the Digital Library. The collection in the ARTstor Digital Library presents high-resolution images of important works of art from antiquity to the 20^th century.

The images have been selected from the archives of the Agence photographique de la RMN, which include the collections of 28 museums, including the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou.

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ARTstor: Latin American Studies

To support Latin American Studies, the ARTstor Digital Library offers many excellent resources, encompassing materials from the Pre-Columbian era through the Spanish conquest, and from Cuba’s revolution in 1959 to images of Carnavalin Brazil in 2008.

A history of the region can be illustrated with images from the encyclopedic collections available in the Digital Library. An excellent start can be The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, which includes hundreds of pages from Aztec codices that provide excellent primary sources for Pre-Columbian culture. The Codex Mendoza (ca. 1541), for example, illustrates the history of Aztec rulers and their conquests, the tributes paid by their provinces, and a fascinating general description of daily Aztec life. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Brooklyn Museum Costumes contains examples of 19^th and 20^thcentury costumes from different Latin American countries, providing a glimpse of the culture after the region’s independence from Spain.

ARTstor also features many collections that specialize in or are substantially devoted to Latin American topics. Some concentrate on the arts, such asJacqueline Barnitz: Modern Latin American Art (University of Texas at Austin): modern art from Mexico and ten other Caribbean, Central, and South American countries; and Latin American Art (Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros): colonial, modern, and contemporary Latin American art.

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ARTstor: New Collection American Studies

The ARTstor Digital Library provides thousands of images related to American Studies ranging from colonial times to the present, including photography, architecture, decorative arts, graphic design, painting, and sculpture.

The Digital Library is rich with collections that cover general American history. Notable ones include:

Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States (Library of Congress): pictorial overview of American history, including images of prints, posters, maps, manuscript pages, photographs, design, movie stills, and cartoons;

Native American Art and Culture (National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution): historic photographs documenting Native American subjects (portraits, scenes, etc.);

Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection (Harvard University): portraits of women’s work, key participants in the women’s suffrage movement and larger women’s rights movement, as well as women involved in organized labor and vocational training;

The Rogovin Collection: social documentary photography of the poor and working class, and his depictions of their lives, communities, and working conditions;

George Eastman House: early photographs of the American West by William Henry Jackson and Carleton Watkins, and portraits by Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, widely considered the first masters of photography in the United States.

Find hundreds of thousands of further :American images by choosing Browse > Geography > United States. Choose a Classification to narrow your results.

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ARTstor: New Collection News

ARTstor Digital Library has collaborated with the Library of Congress to share 6,884 images from the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South collection, a record of early buildings and gardens in the American South.

These documentary photographs were taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), one of the first American women to become a prominent photographer. Between 1933 and 1940, with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, Johnston photographed buildings and gardens throughout nine Southern states, mainly in Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, and to a lesser extent in Florida and Mississippi. The Carnegie Survey was an attempt to document the rapidly disappearing antebellum architecture of the American South. In addition to photographing great mansions, Johnston was one of the first photographers to record the vernacular architecture of the region. Johnston’s work also captured interiors, furnishings, and architectural details, as well as neglected and endangered buildings.

View the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South collection in the ARTstor Digital Library at: http://library.artstor.org/


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ARTstor - Fowler Museum Collection

The ARTstor digital library has collaborated with the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to share approximately 700 images selected from the museum's renowned permanent collection, which features works from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas.

This collaboration in ARTstor has a particular focus on the arts of Africa, reflecting the museum's status as a repository of one of the largest and finest collections of African art in the United States.

View the Fowler Museum collection in the ARTstor Digital Library at: http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/ucla_fowler


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ARTstor: Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design, and Public Art

ARTstor has collaborated with ART on FILE to share more than 11,700 images of contemporary architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and public art in the Digital Library. Photographers Colleen Chartier and Rob Wilkinson, have photographed 20th and 21st century architecture and landscape architecture projects around the world, in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Chartier and Wilkinson focused on the cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai is the site of many recent large-scale construction projects, including the Burj Khalifa (Skidmore, Owings and Merrell), which was completed in January 2010 and is the world's tallest building at 2,717 ft. They also photographed the Meydan Racecourse (TAK architects), the longest building in the world and the Burj Al Arab (Tom Wright of W. S. Atkins PLC), a hotel constructed on an artificial island.

To view the Contemporary architecture in the United Arab Emirates collection, see the ART on FILE collection in the Digital Library: http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/artonfile

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ARTstor: New Collection News

More than 1,600 images of traditional folk art and works by contemporary self-taught artists from the American Folk Art Museum's permanent collection are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library.

To view the American Folk Art Museum collection, go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click "American Folk Art Museum"

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ARTstor: Images from The Barnes Foundation

ARTstor has collaborated with the Barnes Foundation to share more than 400 images of works from the permanent collection in the Digital Library. The current release features 59 works by Henri Matisse, as well as other works in the permanent collection, including European and American paintings, works on paper, and objects.

The Barnes Foundation houses one of the most renowned collections of French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early modern art, including masterworks by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso.

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ARTstor: New Collection News

ARTstor has collaborated with The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art to share approximately 1,300 images from the museum's permanent collection in the Digital Library. The museum's holdings comprise more than 15,000 works in six primary areas of interest and acquisition: European art before 1900; Ancient art; decorative arts; modern and contemporary art; Chinese ceramics; and non-western art. The core consists of the personal collection acquired by John Ringling (1866 – 1936), circus promoter and best-known of the five siblings who started the Ringling Bros. Circus in 1884.

In 1925, Ringling engaged architect John H. Phillips to design a museum to house his personal collection of art. Located in Sarasota, Florida, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, was officially opened to the public in 1931.

ARTstor is also sharing nearly 5,000 images of posters and photographs documenting the history of the circus from The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art: Circus Collection.

To view The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click "The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.


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ARTstor: New collection agreement

Coming soon to ARTstor will be the archive of architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910–2009). This archive will span his career from 1936 to 1997 and documents the development of modern architecture in Southern California. Shulman's most famous work is the photograph for Case Study House No. 22, the Stahl House designed by architect Pierre Koenig. In this seminal image, two stylish women are shown chatting in a living room as the glass-walled, cantilevered structure of the house juts out over the side of Laurel Canyon, revealing the bright lights and street grid of Los Angeles below.

Over the course of his career, Shulman created one of the most comprehensive visual records of the development of modern architecture within the urban fabric of Los Angeles and the changing landscape of Southern California. The collection in ARTstor will represent highlights from the Julius Shulman photography archive, which comprises more than 260,000 negatives, prints, transparencies, and related printed material.

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ARTstor: Architecture from Europe and the Middle East

New photos of ancient through medieval archaeological and architectural sites throughout Europe and the Middle East by Sites and Photos are now available in the Digital Library. The images provide broad and in-depth documentation of the ancient world, including Classical, Megalithic, Islamic, Crusader, and Gothic archaeology and architecture, as well as Greek and Roman painting, sculpture, mosaics, and decorative arts.

To view the Sites and Photos collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click "Sites and Photos;" or, if you are at Southwestern College or have an ARTstor account, simply follow this link: http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/sitesandphotos


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ARTstor - Editorial Cartoon Collection

ARTstor has collaborated with Columbia College Chicago to share more than 3,200 images of drawings and sketches by John R. Fischetti in the Digital Library. John R. Fischetti (1916 - 1980) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose work appeared in the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, The New York Times, and Stars and Stripes. Fischetti's political cartoons satirized local politics, social issues, and current events, including the Watergate scandal, the energy crisis, the economy, and terrorism. The John Fischetti Manuscript Collection at Columbia College Chicago includes over thirty notebooks containing drawings and sketches illustrating Fischetti's creative process from 1960 to 1980.


To view the John R. Fischetti Cartoon Archive (Columbia College Chicago): go to the ARTstor Digital Library, select the orange "GO" button in the upper right side of the website, then browse by collection, and click "John R. Fischetti Cartoon Archive (Columbia College Chicago);" or, if you are on campus or have an ARTstor account for off campus access, simply follow this link: http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/columbiacollege_fischetti


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ARTstor: African art

ARTstor has collaborated with the University of California, Santa Barbara to share more than 940 images of African art, architecture, and culture from the archives of Herbert Cole. A noted art historian specializing in African art, Cole is Emeritus Professor of Art History in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The collection in ARTstor consists of Cole's field photography, which depicts African art, architecture, sites, and culture from Nigeria, Ghana, the Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Kenya. Also included are photographs taken by Cole of African objects in private collections around the world.

To view Herbert Cole: African Art, Architecture, and Culture (University of California, Santa Barbara): go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click "Herbert Cole: African Art, Architecture, and Culture (University of California, Santa Barbara);" or, simply follow this link: http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/ucsb_cole.

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ARTstor: Subject Guides

There are now twenty-two updated subject guides available on ARTstor's website, at http://www.artstor.org/subjectguides. In addition to highlighting relevant collections in each subject, these one-page handouts highlight unique interdisciplinary content in ARTstor, search strategies, and search terms that greatly aid discoverability across disciplines in the Digital Library. The latest handout also address the new subject area: Latin American Studies.

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