UCLA Arts Library Art and Art History Blog

Collection release —Ferguson-Royce: Pre-Columbian Photography
(University of Texas at Austin)
ARTstor and the art and art history department at the University of Texas at Austin collaborated to digitize and distribute approximately 4,200 images of Pre-Columbian archaeological sites from the department’s Ferguson/Royce Archive, now available in the Digital Library.

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Now available in ARTstor: Architectural photography of Philadelphia by Ralph Lieberman.
ARTstor has sponsored an extended photographic campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Ralph Lieberman focusing on the city’s historic and contemporary architecture, as well as its public art and sculpture.

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Now available in ARTstor: Additional images of architecture in Venice from Sarah Quill.
Approximately 600 additional images have been added to the ARTstor Digital Library from Sarah Quill’s photographic archive of Venice, where she has been photographing buildings and civic life for more than 30 years. There are now approximately 800 images in the collection.

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World War I & II postcards and posters available in ARTstor
ARTstor has collaborated with the University of Minnesota Libraries to release approximately 5,740 images depicting posters and postcards from World Wars I and II in the Digital Library. This collection includes works by artists such as James Montgomery Flagg, James H. Daugherty, Ben Shahn, Gil Spear, and Otto Fischer. The collection is international in scope and contains materials from a range of governmental, commercial, and charitable organizations.

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Collection agreement: Tibetan and Buddhist Art from Rob Linrothe
ARTstor has partnered with Rob Linrothe and the Visual Resources Collections at Skidmore College to share approximately 10,000 images of Tibetan and Buddhist art in the Digital Library.

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In 2008, the community continued to contribute important and unique collections to the ARTstor Digital Library. ARTstor released 22 new collections, added content to 21 existing collections, and reached agreements with 33 new museums, photoarchives, libraries, scholars, professional photographers, and artists and artists’ estates. The ARTstor Digital Library collection now totals 890,000 images and will soon include nearly 1,000,000 images with the release of the Magnum Photos collection in early 2009. Learn more    

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You can now find Digital Library and OIV help documentation, as well as training materials and video demos all in one place — the ARTstor Help Wiki. In addition to full how-to documentation of ARTstor features and system requirements, the new ARTstor Help is keyword searchable and includes many new document types such as: FAQs, clickable image-map workflows, and “ARTstor in 3 Minutes” instructional videos. ARTstor Help also provides information on ARTstor training options and support documentation such as our instructional handouts, as well as schedules and registration for online training sessions. You can access ARTstor Help from any page in the ARTstor Digital Library — a persistent link is provided in the upper right of every ARTstor screen. In addition, links to Help within the Digital Library take you directly to context-sensitive help documentation.

You can bookmark the ARTstor Help Wiki or any of its sub-pages. We encourage you to explore the Wiki and update your help bookmarks or links accordingly. Below are some frequently used pages:

• Top Digital Library questions
• Online training schedule
• Managing your account
• Top OIV questions

The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art is partnering with ARTstor to distribute approximately 800 images of Islamic and South Asian art from the collection at Shangri La. The selected images will feature Indian jewelry and enamels; Syrian, Indian, Spanish, and Persian furniture, doors, and ceilings; Persian and Turkish tile panels and portable ceramics; and Central Asian, Persian, Turkish, and Indian textiles.Duke developed a lifelong interest in Islamic art during her travels to Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, India, and other countries. She was particularly interested in decorative arts of the 17th through 19th centuries, especially those of the Ottoman, Mughal, Safavid, and Qajar dynasties, and additionally commissioned art from contemporary Muslim artists. Over the course of nearly 60 years, Duke amassed approximately 3,500 objects, dating from 1500 BCE through the 20th century CE. Shangri La is owned and supported by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, as a center for Islamic arts and cultures. For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Shangri La Collection page.

The latest ARTstor collection updates can be found here: http://artstor.wordpress.com/. Recent highlights include images of pre-Columbian objects and sites from the Moreen O’Brien Maser Collection (Skidmore College) and additional images from Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives. Upcoming collections include approximately 1,500 images from David Wade’s collection of islamic art. The collection has been drawn from Wade’s photographic archive of over 4,000 images, which he has made available on his website, Pattern in Islamic Art.