FRICK FINE ARTS LIBRARY
ART HISTORY: LOCATING ART HISTORICAL IMAGES
Library Guide Series, No. 19
“Qui scit ubi scientis sit, ille est proximus habenti.” -- Brunetiere*
Before Beginning Research
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Navigating the ULS Digital Library www.library.pitt.edu
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PittCat, the ULS Online Catalog
Books published on individual artists are a ready source of images. Depending on the use of an image, often the least complex way to locate images is to check for books, exhibition catalogs, oeuvre catalogs, catalogues raisonnés and corpora by using Pitt Cat, the ULS online catalog. Sample searches are illustrated below.
To locate exhibition catalogs on individual artists, execute a SUBJECT HEADING SEARCH in Pitt Cat like the following:
Carravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da Exhibitions Sherman Cindy Exhibitions Gogh Vincent Van Exhibitions Stieglitz Alfred Exhibitions Okeeffe Georgia Exhibitions Warhol Andy Exhibitions Picasso Pablo Exhibitions Walker Kara Exhibitions
Catalogues Raisonnés attempt to document the entirety of or a complete period of an artist’s work or oeuvre. Detailed information is supplied for each object in the artist’s works (e.g., exhibition history, provenance, scholarly literature that discusses the work, unusual or pertinent facts, and a critical or analytical account of the art. Execute a subject heading search to locate these publications on individual artists.
Picasso Pablo Catalogues Raisonnés Warhol Andy Catalogues Raisonnés Warhol Andy Prints Catalogues Raisonnés
Note, however, that when an artist has had a lengthy and prolific career and held the public interest, different kinds of publications that are unique to the field of art history are issued. Try searching the artist’s name as a subject heading using the following sub-divisions
Oeuvre Catalogs also document the entirety of an artist’s works. The subject heading PICASSO PABLO CATALOGS leads to such publications. Examples follow:
Carnets: catalogue des dessins. Par Britte Léal. 2 vols. Frick – NC248/P5L4/1996
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Musée Picasso, Paris: Catalogue of the Collection. (1986+) Frick – N6853/P5A4/1986b
Pablo Picasso, A Retrospective. Ed. by William Rubin (1980). Frick – ND553/P586/R9
Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form: Graphic Works, 1895-1972. Ed. by Roland Doschka. (2000) – iNC248/P5A4/2000
Picasso: The Late Works. Essay by Jeffrey Hoffeld (1988) – Frick – NC248/P5A4/1988
Picasso Museum, Paris: The Masterpieces. By Marie-Laure Bernadac (1991) – Frick – N6853/P5A4/1991c
Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue, 1885-1973: The Picasso Project. Dir. by Herschel Chipp and Alan Wofsy (1995+) – iND553/P5A4/1995
To locate corpora published within the discipline of art history, execute a subject heading search using the LC subject Heading CORPORA. Corpora are multivolume multilingual works providing extensive data on a specific subject and published over an extended period of time. Each corpus may have complete documentation on the subject accompanied by extensive bibliographies and archival material. One may also try a title search in Pitt Cat for “Corpus of,” although that search will miss titles that do not begin with those two words. Please also consult the following item which lists major corpora on illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, churches and drawings. Note that it may be necessary to visit other libraries to consult some corpora. Examples of this sort of publication in the Frick Fine Arts Library are listed below.
Corpus basilicarum christianarum Romae (5 vols.) – Frick – iNA1120/A1K9 Includes all the early churches in Rome that have either been preserved or are known through existing illustrations.
Corpus della scultura altomedieval (17 vols.) Frick – Check title in Pitt Cat for exact call number for each volume. Covers pre-Romanesque sculpture in Italy; organized by region.
Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450 (3 vols.) – Frick – iNC1150/C82
Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (6 vols.) – Frick – NB1209/G7/C67/1984 Organized by county.
A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance before Cellini (2 vols.) – Frick – iNK6352/H64c
A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings (2 vols.) – Frick – iND653/R385/C6/1982
A Corpus of Spanish Drawings (4 vols.) – Frick – iNC285/A59 Covers drawings from 1400-1800 in collections worldwide. Organized by region within Spain and period.
Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard – Frick – ND673/R9/C63
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Corpus signorum Imperii Romani (3 vols.) – Hillman – NB115/C65 Organized by country.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorm – Frick – iNK4640/C6+ Ancient vases, organized by country, then city, and museum or collection
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi – Frick – Check title in Pitt Cat for exact call number of each volume. Medieval stained glass, organized by country, then region or monument.
Gothic Sculpture in America – Frick – NB180/G6/1989
Offner, Richard. A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting – Frick – iND621/F7/O37 This monumental work on Florentine painting from its origins to the 15th century is supplemented by new material compiled by new editors.
Primitifs flamands (4 vols.) – Frick – Check title in Pitt Cat for exact call number of each volume. Covers 15th and 16th century Flemish painting, including detailed descriptions of each work; sections covering work by known artists and also work by unknowns.
Primitifs flamands 1. Corpus de la peinture de anciens Pays (15 vols.) – Frick - ND665/P95
Primitfs flamands II. Repertoire des peintures flamandes du quinzieme siecle (4 vols.) – Frick - Check title in Pitt Cat for exact call number of each volume.
Primitifs flamands III. Contributions a l’etude des primtifs flamands (7 vols.) – Frick – ND665/P95c
Romanesque Sculpture in American Collections (2 vols.) – Frick – NB175/C13 Project sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art.
Keyword Searching in Pitt Cat
If you are searching for a catalog of a collection shown in a museum that is effusive in nature and you do not recall the title of the show, executing a keyword search in the best way to retrieve it. That function of the online catalog will allow you to retrieve words used in the chapter or section titles of the catalog. Click the KEYWORD tab in Pitt Cat and try different combinations of search terms. Some examples are listed below.
Picasso [Subject] AND Exhibition
This search currently results in 98 exhibition catalogs for shows of Picasso’s works.
To locate exhibition catalogs published by an individual museum, execute a keyword search in Pitt Cat like the following:
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New Museum of Contemporary Art [as a phrase] AND Exhibition
This search currently results in 31 exhibition catalogs for shows at that museum
To locate an item knowing only a few words of the title, try something like the following:
On the first search line, type Japanese On the second search line, type Chinese On the third search line, type Korean art, and choose AS A PHRASE (for that line only)
The result is: Cross Currents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections (Japan Society, 1999) – Frick – N7336/C76/1999
Subject Heading Searching in Pitt Cat
Library of Congress Subject Headings must be used in the format indicated below to conduct subject heading searching (vs. keyword searching). To execute a LC Subject Heading Search, choose “Subject Heading” in the drop down box to the far right on the keyword search screen.
Art China Catalogs Art Greek Catalogs Art Chinese Catalogs Sculpture Greek Catalogs Art Chinese 20th Century Catalogs Vase Painting Catalogs Bronzes Chinese Catalogs Calligraphy Chinese Catalogs Jade Catalogs Art Italy Rome Catalogs Painting Chinese Catalogs Art Roman Catalogs Art Roman Italy Subiaco Italy Catalogs Art Japanese 19th Century Catalogs Classical Antiquities Catalogs Art Japanese 20th Century Catalogs Lazio (Italy) Antiquities Catalogs Art Japanese Meiji Period 1868-1912 Catalogs Painting Japanese Edo Period, 1600-1868 Catalogs Sculpture Japanese Catalogs
Boolean Searching in Pitt Cat
It is also possible to retrieve collection catalogs by conducting a Boolean Search in Pitt Cat. To execute a Boolean Search, enter the search terms and choose “Boolean” from the dropdown box to the far right of the search screen. If, for example, one wanted to see what books are in ULS libraries on Japanese art collections, the following Boolean search would retrieve 38 items.
--5-- Picasso AND raisonne
Currently results in 8 entries
Ukiyoe AND collections
Currently results in 64 entries, including Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections. By Muneshige Narazaki. 13 vols. Frick - iN7353.5/U345/1988
“Japanese Art” AND collections
Results include, but are not limited to the following:
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. By Miyeko Murase. Frick – iN7352/M84/2000
Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections. Gen. ed., Amy Poster. Frick – N7336/C76/1999
Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center. Frick – ND1052/D45/2002
Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers. Ed. by Naomi Noble Richard. 3 vols. Frick – N7353.5/R68/1999
Other Boolean searches might include the following:
“Chinese Art” AND collections
Currently results in 46 entries
Picasso AND Guernica for books and essays focusing on the individual painting
Currently results in 43 entries
For materials about private collections or specialized collections within museums, execute the name of the collection as a Boolean Search:
“Barnes Foundation” will lead you to Great French Paintings from the Barnes Collection: Impressionist, Post-Impressionis and Early Modern (1993)
“Barry Lowen Collection” will lead you to a book on that collection at the Museum of Contempoary Art in Los Angeles (1986)
“Dannheisser Collection” will lead you to On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection
“Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection” will lead you to From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Words from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
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“Havemeyer Collection” will lead you to Splendid Legacy: The Havemeyer Collection by Alice Cooney Frelinghusen, et al. (1993)
“Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection” will lead you to Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection
“Mellon Collection” will lead you to eight items using that phrase, including The Human Form Divine: William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection (1997)
“Panza Collection” will lead you to Museum of Contemporary Art: The Panza Collection
“Phillips Collection” will lead you to The Phillips Collection: A Summary Catalogue (1985) and Master Paintings, The Phillips Collection by Robert Hughes (1998)
“Saatchi Collection” will lead you to Shark-Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90s , and The Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection (4 vols.).
“Sammlung Goetz” will lead you to Fast Forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz
“Thannhauser Collection” will lead you to The Guggenheim Museum, Justin K. Thannhauser Collection by Vivian Endicott Barnett. Frick – N620/S63B2; and also The Guggenheim Tannhauser Collection. Essays by Vivian Endicott Barnett, Fred Licht and Paul Tucker.
“Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza” will lead you to several publications on that art collection
“Wallace Collection?” will lead you to The Wallace Collection’s Pictures: A Complete Catalogue by Stephen Duffy and Jo Hedley (2004).
“William S Paley Collection” will lead you to The William S. Paley Collection [Museum of Modern Art, 1992]
Other Ways to Locate Images
Art and architectural historians need to know how to acquire original photographs and slides or other reproductions of artworks throughout the world. Although many museums and institutions owning artworks are beginning to eliminate or reduce fees for images of the artworks they own, locating images can be an expensive and time consuming task. It is, therefore, wise to begin the process of learning where images are located early during one’s research. Visual resources curators (slide curators) and art librarians, as well as museum registrars and curators know of sources that assist scholars in the process.
Walker, Sandra C. Image Buyer’s Guide: An International Directory of Sources for Slides and Digital Images for Art and Architecture. 7th ed. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1999. Frick – Reference – N4039/I53/1999 Includes a listing of addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses and web sites for museums as well as photo archives.
--7-- The Visual Resources Directory: Art Slide and Photograph Collections in the United States and Canada. Ed. by Carla Conrad Freeman; Canadian editor, Barbara Stevenson. Englewood Cliffs: Libraries Unlimited, 1995. Frick – Reference - N4039/V58/1995
Museum Collections
Museum Collection Catalogs and Handbooks
Often when you are using monographs on individual artists or architects, the captions below images in the text will tell you where the images are located. In that case, you can check to see if there is a museum collection catalog or handbook for the institution in the library. Such publications inventory the works of permanent or loaned collections of art museums. Perusing these publications will provide a listing of artworks in a particular collection. Many museums have published only portions of their collections, some museums have published a selective handbook of their collection, most museums have not published their entire collections, and selected museums have begun to compile scholarly catalogues which detail information about each work of art. One may access these publications by checking Pitt Cat using the name of the museum as a subject heading and adding the sub-division “catalogs.”
Remember that most museums have mounted web sites and some have made images of selected works in their collections available on the Internet. It is important, however, to be aware that museums do not mount images of their entire collections on the Internet. The most informative museum web sites with browsing features and additional information are included in the list below. It is also important to know that museum web sites often include information regarding copyright regulations and publishing permission for the images in their collections.
Museum publications represented in the Frick Fine Arts Library includes, but is not limited to, the following. Such publications can be searched in Pitt Cat by executing an LC Subject Heading Search as shown below.
Albright Knox Art Gallery Catalogs Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany) Catalogs Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Catalogs Asia Society Galleries Catalogs Baltimore Museum of Art Catalogs Brooklyn Museum of Art Catalogs Brucke Museum Catalogs Courtauld Institute Galleries Catalogs Dallas Museum of Art Catalogs Denver Art Museum Catalogs Dulwich Picture Gallery Catalogs Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Catalogs Fitzwilliam Museum Catalogs Fogg Art Museum Catalogs Georgia OKeeffe Museum Catalogs Graphische Sammlung Albertina Catalogs Groeningemuseum Catalogs High Museum of Art Catalogs Hirshhorn Museums and Sculpture Garden Kimbell Art Museum Catalogs
--8-- Minneapolis Institute of Arts Catalogs Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Catalogs Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf Catalogs Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Catalogs Musée Picasso, Paris Catalogs Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Catalogs Musei Capitolini (Rome Italy) Catalogs Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte Catalogs Museum Boymans Van Beuningen Catalogs National Museum of African Art (US) Catalogs Neue Pinakothek (Munich Germany) Catalogs Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena Calif) Catalogs Pierpont Morgan Library Catalogs Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan, Italy) Catalogs Pinacoteca Nazionale (Bologna Italy) Catalogs Pinacoteca Vaticana Catalogs Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) Catalogs Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) Catalogs Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany) Catalogs Staatsgalerie Stuttgart Catalogs Toledo Museum of Art Catalogs Topkapi Sarayi Muzesi Catalogs Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam Catalogs Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogs Yale Center for British Art Catalogs
Some museum catalogs are listed below for selected museums as examples of this sort of reference publication. The list includes Pittsburgh museums.
Andy Warhol Museum
Francis, Mark. Andy Warhol: Drawings, 1942-1987. Frick – iNC139/W37F73/1999
Warhol, Andy. Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. Ed. by George Frei and Neil Printz. Several vols. Frick – Cage – N6537/W28A53
Warhol, Andy. Andy Warhol Photography. Frick – TR647/W365/1999
Warhol, Andy. Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1962-1987. By Frayda Feldman and Jorg Schellmann. 4th ed., rev. and expanded. Frick – NE539/W35A4/2003
Warhol, Andy. Andy Warhol: The Late Work. Ed. by Mark Francis. 3 vols. Frick – N6537/W28A4/2004
Warhol, Andy. Andy Warhol, 365 Takes: The Andy Warhol Museum Collection. Frick – N6537/W28A4/2004
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Asian Art in the Art Institute of Chicago. By Elinor L. Pearlstein and James T. Ulak – Frick – N7336/A78/1993
French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalog of the Collection. Larry J. Feinberg, general editor – Frick – ND546/A78/1996
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago. Selected by James N. Wood. Hillman Library – ND192/I4A77/2000
Italian Drawings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection. By Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles. Frick – NC255/A72/1997
Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. Selected by James N. Wood. Frick – N530/A674/1999
Wood, James N. The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture, Frick – N6487/C52A788/1996
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Art of Japan: Masterworks in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. By Yoshiko Kakudo. Frick – iN7352/A935/1991
Exquisite Pursuits: Japanese Art in the Harry G. C. Packard Collection. By Yoko Woodson and Richard L. Mellott. Frick – iN7352/W66/1994
Selected Works: The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Frick – N7262/A882/1994
British Museum, London
The British Museum Book of Chinese Art. Ed. by Jessica Rawson. Frick – N7342/B75/1992
Fifty Masterpieces of Classical Art in the British Museum. By Denys Eyre Lankester Haynes. Hillman Library – Reference (Ground floor) – qN5634/B7/A34
Japanese Art: Masterpieces in the British Museum. By Lawrence Smith, Victor Harris and Timothy Clark. Frick – N7352/S65/1990b
Master Drawings and Watercolours in the British Museum. Ed. by John Rowlands. Frick – NC27/G7/L63/1984
Carnegie Museum of Art
Batis, Linda and Ruth Edelstein. The Beal Collection of American Art. Essay by Henry Adams. Frick – N6510.5/M63C37/1994
--10-- Belknap, Gillian. The Carnegie Museum of Art Collection Highlights. Intro. By Phillip M. Johnson. Frick – N710/A53/1993
Carnegie Institute. Museum of Art. American Drawings and Watercolors in the Collection of the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. Frick – ND1805/C37/1985
Carnegie Institute. Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Painting Collection. Frick – Reference – N710/A7/1973
Carnegie Institute. Museum of Art. Collection Handbook. Intro. by John Lane. Frick – Reference – N710/A58/1985
Kita, Sandy. A Hidden Treasure: Japanese Prints from the Carnegie Museum of Art Frick – NE1321.8/C37/1996
Strazdes, Diana. American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art. Frick – Reference – N6505/S87/1992
China National Museum of Fine Arts
20th Century Chinese Fine Art: Collection from China National Museum of Fine Arts. 3 vols. Frick – Hillman Library – East Asian Library Chinese Collection (2nd floor) – oversize – N7345/A14/1999
Cincinnati Art Museum
Chinese Art in the Cincinnati Museum. By Ellen B. Avril with contributions from Nora Ling-Yun Shih. Frick – N7340/A93/1997
The Collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum. Frick – N550/A84/2000
The Cincinnati Wing: The Story of Art in the Queen City. Ed. by Julie Aronson. Frick – N6535/C55/C54/2003
Dutch, Flemish and German Paintings in the Cincinnati Art Museum: Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries. By Mary Ann Scott. Frick – ND625/C56/1987
Italian Paintings in the Cincinnati Art Museum. By John T. Spike. Frick – ND611/C52/1993
Masterpieces from the Cincinnati Art Museum. Frick – iN550/A66/1984
Cleveland Museum of Art
Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Selected by Nancy Grossman, James T. Ulak and Marjorie Williams – Frick – iN7352/C53/2005
Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. By Lawrence M. Berman with Kenneth J. Bohat. Frick – iN5335/C63/C64/1999
--11-- Masterpieces from East and West. Intro. by John Russell. Frick – iN552/A65/1992
Masterworks of Asian Art by Michael R. Cunningham, et. al. Frick – iN7262/C59/1998
Detroit Institute of Arts
American Beauty: Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920. By Graham W. J. Beal. Frick – N560/B435/2002
The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth Century French and English Art in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Intro. by Theodore Dell. Frick – iN6846/D42/1996
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries. Intro. by Ellen Sharp. Frick – iNC225/D48/1992
The John S. Newberry Collection: Watercolors, Drawings, and Sculpture Selected from the John Stoughton Newberry Bequest and Gifts. Ed. by Charles H. Elam. Frick – N560/N53
Masters of Dutch Painting: Detroit Institute of Arts. By Geroge S. Keyes, et al. Frick – iND646/D48/2004
Masters of Italian Baroque Painting. Ed. by Detroit Institute of Arts. Text by R. Ward Bissell, Dwight Miller and Andria Derstine. Frick – iND616/B57/2005
Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution
Ancient Bronzes of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. By Emma C. Bunker, et al. Frick – iNK7983.22/B86/1997
Beyond the Legacy: Anniversary Acquisitions for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. By Thomas Lawton and Thomas W. Lentz. Frick – iN7262/L34/1998
Brushing the Past: Later Chinese Calligraphy from the Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth. By Joseph Chang, Thomas Lawton and Stephen D. Allee. Frick – iND1457/C52/W383/2000
Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. By Jenny F. So. Frick – iNK7983.2/A54/1987
Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art: Freer Gallery of Art Handbook. Frick – N7336/F85
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh
Avery, Charles. Renaissance & Baroque Bronzes in the Frick Art Museum. Frick – NK7952/A1A9/1993
--12-- Hellerstedt, Kahren Jones. Clayton, the Pittsburgh Home of Henry Clay Frick: Art and Furnishings. Hillman Library – F159/P68C43/1988; copy also in Frick Fine Arts Library
Treasures of the Frick Art Museum. Text by Walter Read Hovey. Frick – i N710.5/A7
Weisberg, Gabriel P. Collecting in the Gilded Age: Art Patronage in Pittsburgh, 1890- 1910. Frick – iN5216/P4W45/1997 (copy also in Hillman Library – Special Coll. – 3rd floor)
Frick Collection, New York
Art in the Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts. By Charles Ryskamp. Frick – iN620/F6A53/1996
Paintings from the Frick Collection. Intro. By Charles Ryskamp. Frick – N620/F6A87/1990
The Frick Collection; An Illustrated Catalogue. 9 vols. Frick – ND5220/F89f/1968
Graphische Sammlung Albertina
Die Italienischen Zeichningen der Albertina: Generalverzeichnis. Von Veronika Birke, Janine Kertesz. 4 vols. Frick – iNC255/G675/1992
Master Drawings in the Albertina; European Drawings from the 15th to the 18th Century. By Otto Benesch. Frick – iNC27/V66/A3m
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
French Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum. By Thomas Kren. Frick – ND3147/J2/2007
Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Gerry Museum. By Burton B. Fredericksen. Rev. ed. Frick – N582/M25A63/1995
Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum. By Gillian Wilson and Catherine Hess. Frick – NK925/J18/2001
Kimbell Art Museum
Kimbell Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection. Ed. by Timothy Potts. Frick – N570.8/A56/2003
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. By Philip Conisbee, Mary L. Levikoff, Richard Rand. Frick – ND454/L6/1991
--13-- American Art: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. By Ilene Susan Fort and Michael Quick. – Frick – iN6505/L6/1991
European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. By Scott Schaefer and Peter Fusco. Frick – N582/L7A634/1987
Master Drawings in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. By Bruce Davis. Frick – iNC25/L6L64/1997
Masterpieces from the Shin’enkan Collection: Japanese Painting of the Edo Period. Frick – ND1052.5/L67/1986a
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York http://www.metmuseum.org.Works_of_Art The online image collection is comprised of more than 6,500 important works, including the entire European Paintings and American Paintings and Sculpture collections. The image collection is one of the most scholarly in existence, with extensive physical descriptions, provenance notes and detailed views of signatures and inscriptions. Printed Catalogs of the Collections include:
Ancient Chinese Art: The Ernest Erickson Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Maxwell K. Hearn. Frick – N7343/M48/1987
Between Two Cultures: Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chinese Paintings from the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Wen C. Fong. Frick – iND1045/F66/2001
The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture. By Peter Barnet and Nancy Wu. Frick – N611/C6A85/2005
Eighteenth Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Jacob Bean and William Criswold. Frick – NC255/M4/1990
European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. By Katharine Baetjer – Frick – ND450/M47/1995
Masterpieces of American Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Margaretta Salinger. Frick – iND205/S33/1986
Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Adolfo Salvatore Cavallo. Frick – NK3005/M48/1993
Robert Lehman Collection. By John Pope-Hennessy, 14 vols. Frick – N611/L43M46/1987
The Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Adolfo Salvatore Cavallo. Frick – iNK3049/U5C38/1998
--14-- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Chinese Jades, Archaic and Modern, from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Foreword by Samuel Sachs II; into. by Na Chih-liang. Frick – NK5750/M65
European Tapestry in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Ed. by Candace J. Adelson. Frick – iNK3042/A34/1994
Imperial Silks: Ching Dynasty Textiles in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Ed. by Robert D. Jacobsen. 2 vols. Frick – iNK4783/A1M55/2000
Selected Works: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Ed. by Sandra LaWall Lipshultz. Frick – N582.6/A65/1988
Musée national d’art moderne, France
La collection du Musée national d’art moderne: Catalogue. Intro. by Dominique Bozo – Greensburg Campus Library – N6488/F8P354/1986
Masterpieces from the Pompidou Centre, Musée national d’art moderne. Selected and introduced by Edward Lucie-Smith. Frick – N6488/F8P254/1983
Museé du Louvre
Dessins toscans, XVIe – XVIIIe siecles. 2 vols. Frick – NC256/T8/M87/1988
École italienne, XVIIe siècle par Stéphane Loire – Frick – ND616/M87/1996 (Library has vol. 1)
1,001 Paintings of the Louvre: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Vincent Pomarede and Delphine Trebosc. Frick – N2030/A515/2005
Museo del Prado
Enciclopedia del Museo del Prado. 6 vols. (2006) – Frick – On order as of Fall 2007
Katalog der antiken Skulpturen ds Museo del Prado in Madrid. By Stephan F. Schroeder. Frick – iNB71/M3M877/1993
Museo del Prado: Inventario general de pinturas. 3 vols. Frick – iN3450/M87/1990
La Pintura flamenco en el Prado. By Arnout Balis, et al. Frick – ND669/F5P55/1989
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfort am Main, Germany
What’s New Pussycat? Die Neuerwerbungen 2002-2005. Ed. by Udo Kittelmann and Klaus Görner. Frick – N6488/G3F73/2006
--15-- Museum Ludwig Köln
Museum Ludwig Cologne: Paintings, Sculptures, Environments from Expressionism to the Present Day. By Siegfried Gohr. Frick – iN2264.7/A613/1986
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp A selection of object records from the MFA’s collection. They are organized by department, and often by category within a department. New records are added weekly. The focus is on objects in all media acquired by the museum after 1933 and made before 1945 which were or could have been in areas of Europe occupied by the Nazis during the Holocaust/World War II era artifacts acquired by the Museum in modern times.
Printed catalogs include:
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. By Carol Troyen, Charlotte Emans Moore, and Priscilla Kate Diamond. Intro. By Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Frick – N520/B74/1997
Asiatic Art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Frick – N7262/M87
Bosuton Bijutsukan nikuhitsu ukiyoe, Bekkan: Shunga meihinsen = Ukiyo-e Paintings Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. By Bobuo Tsuji. Hillman Library – East Asian Japanese Collection (2nd floor) –ND1052/B66/2000/suppl.
Dawn of the Floating World, 1650-1765: Early Ukiyo-e Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. By Timothy Clark, Anne Nishimura Morse, Louise E. Virgin and Allen Hockley. Frick – iND1053.5/D38/2001
Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. By Laurence B. Kanter. Frick – ND611/M89/1994
Japanese Art in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Ed. by Anne Nishimura Morse and Nobuo Tsuji. Frick – iN7353/M87/1998
Masterpiece Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Selected by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Peter C. Sutton. Frick – 520/A7178/1986
Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Tang through Yuan Dynasties. By Wu Tung. 2 vols. Frick – oND1043.3/M87/1996
Museum of Modern Art, New York
American Prints, 1960-1985, in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Frick – NE53/N5M8/1986
Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910-1980: From the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art …Frick – N6494/C64D3/1985
Drawing from the Modern. 3 vols. Frick – NC89/D73/2004 --16--
Making Choices: 1929, 1939, 1948, 1955. By Peter Galassi, Robert Storr and Anne Umland. Frick – iN6020/M9M6/2000 (second of three cycles of exhibitions at the MOMA to mark the year 2000)
Masterworks from Modern Art from the Museum of Modern Art. New York: Intro. by Glenn D. Lowry. Frick – N620/M9/M386/2005
Modern Contemporary: Art at MOMA since 1980. Frick – NX456/M88/2000
ModernStarts: People, Places, Things. Ed. by John Elderfield, Peter Reed, mary Chan, Maria del Carmen Gonzalez. Frick – iN620/M9M6/1999 (first of three cycles of exhibitions at the MOMA to mark the year 2000; covers the period 1880 through 1920)
MOMA Highlights: 325 Works from the Museum of Modern Art. Frick – N620/M9/A58/1999
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. http://www.nga.gov/collection Search the NGA’s extensive collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper that spans more than 600 years of history from the Middle Ages to the present. Information for many works includes bibliographies, exhibition histories and provenance records.
Printed catalogs include:
The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue.
American Naïve Paintings by Deborah Chotner – Frick – ND205.5/P74N37/1992 American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century by Ellen G. Miles. Frick – ND207/N28/1995 American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Parts 1-2 by Franklin Kelley et al. – Frick – ND210/K45/1966 Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century by Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Frick - ND646/N3737/1995 Early Netherlandish Painting by John Oliver Hand and Martha Wolff. Frick – ND635/N37/1986 European Sculpture of the Nineteenth Cenutry. By Ruth Butler and Suzanne G. Lindsay. Frick – NB457/N38/2000 French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Vol. 1 - . by Lorenz Eitner – Frick – ND547/E37/2000 German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries by John Oliver Hand. Frick – ND565/H36/1993 Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Diane de Grazia, et. al. Frick – ND616/N37/1996 Spanish Painting of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries by Jonathan Brown and Richard G. Mann. Frick – ND804/N38/1990 Western Decorative Arts. Vol. 1-2. by Rudolf Distelberger, et. al. Frick – ND804/N38/1990
--17-- Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. By Miklos Boskovits, et al. Frick – ND615/N383/2003
National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. By John Oliver Hand. Frick – iN856/H36/2004
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalog. Frick – NB25/W37N387/1994
National Gallery, London
Dutch School, 1600-1900. by Neil MacLaren. Rev. and exp. 2 vols. Frick – ND646/N373/1991
Early Netherlandish and German Paintings. By Alistair Smith. Frick – ND565/G67/1985
Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings. By Dillian Gordon. Frick – ND615/G67/2003
Flemish Paintings. By Christopher Brown. Frick – ND666/G67/1987
French Paintings after 1800. By Michael Wilson. Frick – ND547/N38/1988
Italian Schools Before 1400. By Martin Davies; rev. by Dillian Gordon. Frick – ND613/N38/2001 First published in 1988 as The Early Italian Schools before 1400.
The National Gallery Complete Illustrated Catalogue by Christopher Baker and Tom Henry – Frick – N1070/A69/1995 and a CD-ROM at Public Services Desk in the Reading Room
The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings. By Nicholas Penny. Frick – ND615/P45/2004
National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
National Museum of American Art. Intro. by William Kloss. Frick – N857/A617/1995
Treasures from the National Museum of American Art. By William Kloss. Frick – N6505/N3/1985
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Frick – iN858/N36A56/1987
Women Artists: Works from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. By Nancy Heller. Frick – iN8354/N38/2000
--18-- National Palace Museum, Taipei
Great National Treasures of China: Masterworks in the National Palace Museum. Hillman Library – East Asian Collection (2nd floor) – N7342/K8/1984
Masterpieces of Chinese Painting in the National Palace Museum. Hillman Library – East Asian Chinese Collection (2nd floor) – ND1042/K794
Neolithic Jades in the Collection of the National Palace Museum. By Shuping Deng. Hillman Library – East Asian Collection (2nd floor) – NK5750.2/C6K87/1992
A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum. By Yu Peijin. Hillman Library – East Asian Chinese Collection (2nd floor) – NK4565.4/G8/1999
Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei. By Wen C. Fong, James C. Y. Watt. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, dist. By H. N. Abrams, 1996. Frick – iN3750/T32A87/1996
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. German and Netherlandish Paintings, 1450-1600. By Burton L. Dunbar. Frick – iND565/N38/2005
The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Italian Paintings, 1300-1800. by Elliot W. Rowlands. Frick – iND614/N37/1996
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection. Compiled and edited by Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler. Frick – N582/K3N$2/1993
Norton Museum of Art
The Chinese Collection: Selected Works from the Norton Museum of Art. By John R. Finlay. Johnstown Campus Library – Oversize – N7342/N67/2003
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
The American Paintings in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: An Illustrated Checklist. Compiled by Nancy Fresella-Lee; ed. by Jacolyn A. Mott. Frick – ND205/F728/1989
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1805-2005: 200 Years of Excellence. Essays by Mark Hain, et al. Frick – iN680/A832/2005
Thomas Eakins Rediscovered: Charles Bregler’s Thomas Eakins Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. By Kathleen A. Foster. Frick – N6537/E3/A4/1997
Philadelphia Museum of Art
--19-- British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Century. By Richard Dorment. Frick – ND466/P5/1986
Italian Paintings, 1250-1450, in the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. By Carl Brandon Strehike. Frick – iND615/S77/2004
Northern European Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Sixteenth through the Nineteenth Century. By Peter C. Sutton. Frick – ND625/P48/1990
The Thomas Eakins Collection. By Theodor Siegl, intro. by Evan H. Turner. Frick – N6537/E11/P5
Phoenix Art Museum
The Modern Spirit in Chinese Painting: Selections from the Jeanette Shambaugh Elliott Collection. Catalogue by Wai-fong Anita Siu. Frick – ND1043.5/S6/1985
Princeton University. Art Museum
Greek Sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University…. Ed. by Brunilde S. Ridgway, et al. Frick – NB87/P75/P754/1994
Roman Sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University. Ed. by J. Michael Padgett, et al. Frick – NB115/P75/2001
Selections from the Art Museum, Princeton University. Frick – N714/P65A65/1986
Royal Ontario Museum
Homage to Heaven, Homage to Earth: Chinese Treasures of the Royal Ontario Museum. Frick – iN7342/R69/1992
The T. T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art. Frick – N7342/T45/1996
St. Louis Art Museum
Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Saint Louis Museum of Art. By Steven D. Owyoung. Frick – NK7983.2/S24/1992
San Diego Museum of Art
Selections from the Chinese Collection. By Song You. Frick – N7342/S26/1999
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection. Essay by Daniela Salvioni. Frick – N8354/L66/1999
--20-- Photography, A Facet of Modernism: Photographs from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. By Van Deren Coke and Diane C. DuPont. Greensburg Campus Library – TR650/S26/1986
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Painting and Sculpture Collection. By Diane C. DuPont, et al. Frick – iN740.5/A67/1985
Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection. Ed. by Sandra S. Phillips. Frick – TR655/S26/2005
Seattle Art Museum
Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum. By James C. Y. Watt. Frick – NK5720.2/C6C45/1989
The Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Seattle Art Museum. By Chiyo Ishikawa. Frick – ND450/S43/1997
Serene Pleasure: The Jinglexuan Collection of Chinese Ceramics. By Wang Qingzheng, Rosemary E. Scott and Jennifer Chen. Frick – NK4565.4/Q26/2001
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Collection. Organized by Lisa Dennison, Nancy Spector and Joan Young. Frick - TR6/U62/N494/2003
100 Works by Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Museum. Text by Vivian Endicott Barnett. Frick – N6487/N4/S6383/1984
State Hermitage Museum (Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh, Russia)
British Painting, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries. By Larissa A. Dukelskaya and Elizaveta P. Renne. Frick – iND450/G6713/1983/v.13
Catalogue of Japanese Art in the State Hermitage Museum. Hillman Library – East Asian Japanese Collection (2nd floor) – N7353.5/E78/1993
Catherine the Great: Art for Empire: Masterpieces from the State Hermitage Museum, Russia. Ed. by Nathalie Bondil. Frick – iN6986/G67/2005
French Painting: Early and Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Valentine N. Berezina. Frick – iND450/G6713/1983/v.11
German and Austrian Painting: Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. By Nikolai N. Nikulin. Frick – iND450/G6713/1983/v.14
German and Austrian Painting: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Boris I. Asvarishch. Frick – iND450/G6713/1983/v.15
--21-- Great Art Treasures of the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Ed. by Vitaly Suslov. 2 vols. Frick – iN3350/A56/1994
Greek and Roman Anqituities in the Hermitage. Compiled and intro. by X. Gobunova and I. Saverkina. Frick – N5604/R9L56
Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands: Works from the State Hermitage Museum and the Khalili Collection. Ed. by M. B. Piotrovsky and J. M. Rogers. Frick – N6260/H43/2004
Spanish Painting: Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries. By Ludmila L. Kagané. Frick – iND450/G6713/1983/v.4
The State Hermitage: Masterpieces from the Museum’s Collections. Ed. by Vitaly Syslov. 2 vols. Frick – iN3350/A567/1994b
Venetian Painting, Fourteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. By Tamara D. Fomichova. 2 vols - Frick – iND450/G6713/1983
Stedilijk Van Abbemuseum
Van Abbemuseum: A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Art. Ed. by Jan Debbaut and Monique Verhulst. Frick – N2467.3/A5V36/2002
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Taipei Fine Arts Museum Collection Catalogue, 1996-2002. 4 vols. Hillman Library – East Asian Chinese Collection – N7449.8/T343-T352
Tate Galleries, London
Age of Hogarth: British Painters Born 1675-1709. By Elizabsth Einberg and Judy Egerton. Frick – ND466/T38/1988
Catalogue of the Tate Gallery’s Collection of Modern Art, Other Than Works by British Artists. By Ronald Alley. Frick – N1080/A43
The Stage of Drawing, Gesture and Act: Selected from the Tate Collection. Selected by Avis Newman; curated by Catherine de Zegher. Frick – NC27/G7L678/2003
Tate Gallery: An Illustrated Companion. By Simon Wilson. 2nd ed., rev. and exp. Frick – N1080/A7425/1991
Tate Modern: The Handbook. Ed. by Iwona Blazwick and Simon Wilson. Frick – N6488/G7L678/2000
Turner: In the Tate Collection. By David Blayney Brown. Frick – ND947/T8B76/2002
Uffizi Gallery, Florence
--22-- An Anthology of the Uffizi: Masterpieces of the Gallery. By Leonardo Castellucci. Frick – N2570/A52/1994
Catalogo delle Pitture della Regia Galleria: Gli Uffizi alla fine del Settecento. Compilato da Giuseppe Bencivenni Gia Pelli. Frick – N2570/A61/2004
Firenze, gli Uffizi: la pittura. Intro. e testi a cura di Emma Micheletti. 2 vols. Frick – N2570/A57/1983
Treasures of the Uffizi Florence. Ed. by Abigail Asher. Frick – iN2570/A755/1996
Vienna Kunsthistorische Museum
Vienna, the Kunsthistorische Museum: The Treasury and the Collection of Sculpture and Deocrative Arts, the Paintings Collection. By Manfred Leithe-Jasper, et al. Frick – N1677/L442/1984
Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna: The Paintings. Rev. ed. Frick – N1680/A7/1997
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
British Watercolours in the Victoria and Albert Museum: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the National Collection. Compiled by Lionel Lambourne and Jean Hamilton. Frick – ND1928/V47/1980
Catalogue of Romanesque Sculpture. By Paul Williamson. Frick – NB175/V52/1983
Chinese Art and Design: Art Objects in Ritual and Daily Life. Ed. by Rose Kerr. Hillman Library – NK1068/K47/1991
European Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Ed. by Paul Williamson. Frick – NB450/V5/1996
Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World, 8-18th Centuries. By Asadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani. Frick – NK6474/A1V5/1982
Netherlandish Sculpture 1450-1550. By Paul Williamson. Frick – NB635/W54/2002
Photography, An Independent Art: Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1839-1996. By Haworth-Booth, Mark. Hillman Library – TR6/G72/L66/1997
The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Textile Collection: British Textiles from 1900 to 1937. Frick – NK8802.5/G7L6/1992
The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Textile Collection: Woven Textile Designs in Britain from 1750 to 1850. By Natalie Rothstein. Frick – NK8943/V55/1994b
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
--23-- Bits and Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections. Frick – N583/A53/2005
Walker Art Center: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection. Essays on the collection by Martin L. Friedman, et al. Frick – iN583/A884/1990
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA
Chew, Paul A. Geo. Hetzel and the Scalp Level Tradition: George Hetzel Retrospective and the Scalp Level Artists Exhibition. Frick – ND230/P41/C5
Jones, Barbara. Born of Fire: The Valley of Work. Frick – N8218/J66/2006 (copy also in Hillman Library – Special Collections)
McWilliams, Betty Jane. The Four Walls: The Lives and Work of a Family of Western Pennsylvania Artists. Frick – ND230/P4M29/2000 An exhibition catalog of the works of A. Bryan, Alfred, Bessie and William Coventry Wall.
O’Toole, Judith H. Nature’s Bounty: Still Life Painting in Southwestern Pennsylvania 1860-1910. Frick – ND1392.5/N38/2001
Iams, J. Howard. Selected Works by J. Howard Iams: Commemorating the Whiskey Rebellion Bicentennial. Frick - N6537/I24A4/1992
Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters, 1800-1945. Ed. by Paul A. Chew. Frick – Reference – ND230/P41/C5
Southwestern Pennsylvania Painters: The Collection of the Westmoreland Museum of Art. Ed. by Paul A. Chew. Frick – Reference – ND230/P4/C5
Whitney Museum of American Art
An American Legacy, a Gift to New York: Recent Acquisitions from the Board of Trustees. By Marla Prather, Dana A. Miller. Frick – N6512/W532/2002
Frames of Reference: Looking at American Art, 1900-1950: Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Ed. by Beth Venn and Adam D. Weinberg. Frick – N6512/W532/1999
Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, 1973-1986, Whitney Museum of American Art. By Patterson Sims. Frick – N6512/S532/1986
Printed and Electronic Museum Directories
If you do not know the owner of an artwork or if the owner wishes to remain anonymous, you may need to speak with art curators, dealers, and auctioneers in your field. In addition, if you need to obtain reproduction rights and learn of fees that some institutions may charge for use of their images in a published work, you may need to contact the museum directly or check its web site address.
--24-- The World of Learning Online. Full text. Begin at the ULS Digital Library Home Page, click “Find Articles” look to the right of the screen and click on “Looking for a Particular Database”, click the letter W and then click on the title of the database. An authoritative source of information on the international scholarly and academic worlds, including museums, as well as universities,, schools of art and architecture, learned societies, research centers and libraries and archives. Provides users with address, telephone numbers, fax numbers, web site addresses, year founded, size of library, senior administrative staff, and key professors. Updated annually.
Virtual Library Museum Pages http://icom.museum/vlmp/ A Multilanguage worldwide directory of museums with a Web presence, subdivided geographically or keyword searchable.
American Art Directory. 2003-2006. Frick – Reference – Directories – N50/A51 (2007-2008 ed. on order as of August 1, 2007)
International Directory of Arts. 2 vols. 1995-1996. Frick – Reference – directories – N50/I6/22nd ed
If you need further assistance, execute a subject heading search in Pitt Cat by using the following subject headings:
MUSEUMS [country or location] DIRECTORIES ART MUSEUMS [country or location] DIRECTORIES
Printed Indexes to the Locations of Artworks
These sources will tell you which museum or collection owns a particular artwork.
Fredericksen, Burton. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge: Harvard University, 1972. Frick - ND611 F85.
Rochelle, Mercedes. Mythological and Classical World Art Index: A Locator of Paintings, Sculptures, Frescoes, Manuscript Illuminations, Sketches, Woodcuts, and Engravings Executed 1200 BC to AD 1900 with a Directory of the Institutions Holding Them. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1991. Frick – Reference – N7760/R63/1991
Rochelle, Mercedes. Post-Biblical Saints Art Index: A Locator of Paintings, Sculptures, Mosaics, Icons, Frescoes, Manuscript Illuminations, Sketches, Woodcuts, and Engravings Created from the 4th Century to 1950 with a Directory of the Institutions Holding Them. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994. Frick – Reference – N8079.5/R63/1994
Schweers, Hans F. Gemälde in deutschen Museen. 3rd ed. 10 vols. New York: K. G. Saur, 2002. Frick – Reference - N2210 S27 2002
Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Washington, DC: Netherlands-American Amity Trust, 1986. Frick - N6941 S88 1986
Witt Library. A Checklist of Painters, c1200-1994 Represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London. 2nd ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1995. Frick – Reference – ND35/W5/1995
--25-- Wright, Christopher. The World's Master Paintings; From the Renaissance to the Present Day. 2 vols. New York: Routledge, 1992. Frick - Reference - ND40 W75 1992 A comprehensive listing of works by 1,300 painters and a complete guide to their locations worldwide.
____. Old Master Paintings in Britain; An Index of Continental Old Master Paintings Executed Before c. 1800 . . . . Totowa, NJ: Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, 1976. Frick - ND160 W94
____. Paintings in Dutch Museums; An Index of Oil Paintings in Public Collections in the Netherlands by Artists Born Before 1870. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1980. Frick - Reference - N2450 W74
Subscription Databases Available in ULS Libraries
One database is a collection of digital images and the others include some images in the body of the database’s offerings. Databases that do not include an image search feature allow the user to search for published material on artists or subjects that may well include images.
Art Index Retrospective. 1929-1983. Indexing only. Art Full Text. 1984+, Full Text of SOME titles, 1997+ Databases available for you to search yourself at any electronic device in ULS libraries. Begin at the ULS Digital Library Home Page, click “Find Articles” and then scroll to the “For In-Depth Results” section, choose Art and Architectural History, and click on the database title. One can either search these databases individually or simultaneously. The databases cover the art of all periods in most American and major European art journals and museum bulletins. Coverage includes African, Chinese, Egyptian, classical Greek and Roman, Indian and Southeast Asian, Islamic, Japanese, Latin American, Native American, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian arts written in English and European languages. Includes journal articles, book reviews, exhibition reviews, and indexing of art reproductions. For assistance in using this database, see Library Guide No. 4 entitled Art FullText which is available in the Frick Fine Arts Library.
Artbibliographies Modern. 1974+ Available for you to search yourself at any electronic device in ULS libraries. Begin at the ULS Digital Library Home Page, click “Find Articles” and then scroll to the “For In-Depth Results” section, choose Art and Architectural History, and click on the database title. Provides citations and abstracts (summaries) of journal articles, books, exhibition catalogs, essays, dissertations, and exhibition reviews. Covers all aspects of modern and contemporary art, including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists’ books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration and more, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. Excludes architecture. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature. Approximately 13,000 new entries are added each year. Updated bi-annually. For assistance in using ABM, see Library Guide No. 28 entitled ArtBibliographies Modern which is located in the Frick Fine Arts Library. This database does not offer an image search feature.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1992+ Available for you to search yourself at any electronic device in ULS libraries. Begin at the ULS Digital Library Home Page, click “Find Articles” and then scroll to the “For In-Depth Results” section, choose Art and Architectural History, and click on the database title.
--26-- Provides citations and abstracts (summaries) to articles published in journals in the fields of art, architecture, history, archaeology, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and other disciplines in the humanities. The unique feature of this database is that researchers can search citation data (from the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper or work and finding other, mor recent papers that cite it. ACHI offers expanded search options, including the ability to locate all cited authors (not just first authors), track times cited information, and hotlink to first and subsequent generation articles. The Web of Science databases, of which ACHI is a part, include approximately 15,250 new cited references and 2,250 new article per week. For assistance in using this database, please click on the help aids linked to the description of the Art and Humanities Citation Index or use the Web of Science Tutorial also linked at the same place. NOTE: To find illustrations in journal articles published from 1992 forward, chose Cited Ref Search and then either enter artist or architect name – last name and first initial, e.g. Picasso p – in Cited Author Box or enter title of work of art in Cited Work Box. Click search to find the articles. For years prior to the database, use the print version. Coverage for 1980-1989 issued on one retrospective CD. Hillman – CD-ROM – Reference (Ground floor) Coverage for 1990, 1991 issued on separate annual CDs. Hillman – CD-ROM – Reference (Ground floor)
ARTstor. Available for you to search yourself at any electronic device in ULS libraries. Begin at the ULS Digital Library Home Page, click “Find Articles” and then scroll to the “For In-Depth Results” section, choose Art and Architectural History, and click on the database title. A digital library of images, their associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship. The ARTstor Digital Library contains approximately 500,000 images from a wide range of cultures and time periods; including images of architecture, painting, photography, prints, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts, design, archaeological and anthropological objects. One must be a Pitt-affiliated user in order to utilize the full features of the database, including downloading and saving images. Users of ARTstor may print, export or download images for educational use by employing the database’s print or export functions as described in its “Terms and Conditions” section. One must be a Pitt-affiliated user in order to utilize the full features of the database, including downloading and saving images. In addition, ARTstor and allows all scholars to download free of charge high-resolution digital images for use in academic publications.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) 1990+ Available for you to search yourself at any electronic device in ULS libraries. Begin at the ULS Digital Library Home Page, click “Find Articles” and then scroll to the “For In-Depth Results” section, choose Art and Architectural History, and click on the database title. BHA provides citations and abstracts (summaries) to published materials in all periods of art history, including the entire contents of its predecessor, RILA (1975-1989) and part of the contents to another predecessor (RAA, 1973-1989; NOTE: 1929-1972 of this index are only available in the printed edition located in the library’s reference room). BHA is the most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present. This database indexes and abstracts books, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, essays, journal articles, Festschriften, conference proceedings and dealer catalogs. Broad in scope, the bibliography’s citations encompass art, architecture, painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture, decorative arts, crafts, graphic arts, and folk and popular art. BHA is updated quarterly. For assistance in using BHA, please consult Library Guide No. 5 entitled Bibliography of the History of Art. It is available in the Frick Fine Arts Library. This database does not offer an image search feature.
Grove Dictionary of Art. Available for you to search yourself at any electronic device in ULS libraries. Begin at the ULS Digital Library Home Page, click “Find Articles” and then scroll to the “For In-Depth Results” section, choose Art and Architectural History, and click on the database title. This recent full-text encyclopedia for the field of art and architecture provides articles under the names of individual countries, including those in Africa and Asia (i.e., Central Asia, China, et al); biographies of individual artists; and articles on art schools and concepts. Cities can also be searched as can the names of individual buildings. The articles and bibliographies have been written by art and architectural historians
--27-- around the world. All of the information is current and updated periodically. Grove’s is particularly good for biographies on all but the most obscure artists -- and it is written in English, unlike many biographical resources on artists. New articles are added to the electronic database periodically (i.e. Contemporary Asian Art was added in Fall 2005). The key feature that sets this encyclopedia apart from all others in the field is that it covers all cultures and all countries. NOTES: Each article includes information on “How to Cite the Article” (scroll to the bottom of the article). While this database now places illustrations within recently written articles, when the database was first created, the images were located at a separate Links button and then search by subject or artist’s name.
Index to Christian Art. A database available for you to search yourself at any electronic device in ULS libraries. Begin at the ULS Digital Library Home Page, click “Find Articles” and then scroll to the “For In-Depth Results” section, choose Art and Architectural History, and click on the database title. The Index of Christian Art is the largest archive of information on Early Christian and Medieval iconography in the world. The Index documents images or subjects of Christian art from early apostolic times to 1400 CE with no geographic limitations. 17 different media are represented including manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, glass, et al. ICA provides more than 150 searchable categories of information, including the usual – artist’s name (if known), title of the work, medium, provenance and extensive bibliographic citations. NOTES: Provides citations and abstracts only about each image or subject. Only a fraction of the printed ICA is available online at the current time. The database began in 1991 and is updated weekly. Because of copyright law, many images are not available for public viewing. Each image is, however, accompanied with bibliographic citations to allow users to locate a reproduction of an image in a published resource. The bibliographic information supplied for each subject is invaluable for art and architectural historians. For assistance in using ICA, please consult Library Guide No. 35 entitled Index to Christian Art. Copies are available in the Frick Fine Arts Library.
Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals. 1840-1907. A database available for you to search yourself at any electronic device in ULS libraries. Begin at the ULS Digital Library Home Page, click “Find Articles” and then scroll to the “For In-Depth Results” section, choose Art and Architectural History, and click on the database title. Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals indexes and abstracts forty-two art periodicals published in the United States during the 19th century. The entire contents of each issue is indexed, including articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements. This database is a resource for researchers studying artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decoration, and collecting of the period, plus its popular culture and industry. The database is updated quarterly. For assistance in using this database, please consult Library Guide No. 10 entitled Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals. Copies are available in the Frick Fine Arts Library,
How to Find Images of Artworks within Printed Books
While some indexes have developed over the years, none of them is recently published. They may well, however, still be helpful for locating images published within books. Remember, it is also important to browse through books and exhibition catalogs on individual artists or subjects. These and other indexes can be found in PITT CAT using the following LC subject headings:
ARCHITECTURE INDEXES PAINTING [nationality] [country or location] INDEXES PAINTINGS INDEXES SCULPTURE INDEXES
The indexes to images listed below tell you in which printed book an artwork has been reproduced.
1. Look up the name of the artist in one of the indexes listed below, last name first.
--28-- 2. Find the name of the artwork you want to see. 3. Look at the number following the painting. 4. Go to the bibliography section of the index (usually in the front of the book). It is usually arranged numerically. Find the number that followed your artwork. The book listed there is where you will find an image of the artwork.. 5. If the call number of the book is not written in the margin, look for it by author or title in PittCat, the ULS online catalog 6. Locate the book and look at the reproduction.
Bodleian Library. Illuminated Manuscripts: An Index to Selected Bodelian Library Color Reproductions. Ed. by Thomas H. Ohlgren. New York: Garland, 1977. Frick – ND2920/O9/1977
Cahill, James. An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: Tang, Sung, and Yuan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Frick – ND1043.3/C3
Cirker, Hayward. Dictionary of American Portraits. 4045 Pictures of Important Americans from Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century. New York: Dover, 1967. Hillman Library – Reference (Ground floor) – fN7593/C53
Clapp, Jane. Sculpture Index. 2 vols. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1970. Frick - Reference - NB36 C58
Havlice, Patricia Pate. World Painting Index. 2 vols. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1977. Frick - Reference - ND45 H38 Accompanied by Second Supplement, 1973-1930 and Third Supplement, 1980-1989.
Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library. Index to Art Reproductions in Books. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1974. Hillman Library - N7525 H48 1974
Kreisel, Martha. Photography Books Index II: A Subject Guide to Photo Anthologies. Methuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1985. Hillman Library – Reference (Ground floor) – TR199/M67/1985
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 8 + vols. Zurich: Artemis, 1981- . Frick – Reference – N7760/L49/1981
Liang, Ellen Johnston. An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists. Rev. ed. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998. Hillman Library – ND1045/L35/1998
Monro, Isabel Stevenson and Kate M. Monro. Index to Reproductions of American Paintings: a Guide to Pictures Occurring in More than Eight Hundred Books. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1948. Frick - Reference - ND205 M75. Supplement is in Hillman - Reference - ND205 M752 suppl.
______. Index to Reproductions of European Paintings: A Guide to Pictures in More than Three Hundred Books. New York: Wilson, 1956. Frick - Reference - ND45 M75
--29-- Ohlgren, Thomas H. Insular and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts: An Iconographic Catalogue, c. A.D. 625 to 1100. New York: Garland, 1986. Frick – ND3128/O45/1986
Parry, Pamela Jeffcott. Contemporary Art and Artists: An Index to Reproductions. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1978. Frick - Reference - N6490 P26
______. Print Index: A Guide to Reproductions. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1983. Frick - Reference - NE90 P17 1983
Rochelle, Mercedes. Historical Art Index, A.D. 400-1650: People, Places, and Events Depicted. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1989. Frick – Reference – N8210/R6/1989
Smith, Lyn Wall. Index to Reproductions of American Paintings Appearing in More than 400 Books Mostly Published since 1960. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1977. Frick - Reference - ND205 S65
Subject Catalogue of Paintings in Public Collections. London: Visual Arts, 1989. Frick - ND45 S94 1989 This reference is helpful in researching subjects in art. It leads you to paintings of a certain subject, of which you can then find reproductions in the other indexes.
Teague, Edward. Index to Italian Architecture: A Guide to Key Monuments and Reproduction Sources. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992. Frick – Reference – NA111/T4/1992
Teague, Edward. World Architecture Index: A Guide to Illustrations. New York: Greenwood, 1991. Frick – Reference – NA202/T4/1991
Thomison, Dennis. The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1991. Frick - Reference - N6538 N5T46 1991
Williams, Lynn Barstis. American Printmakers, 1880-1945: An Index to Reproductions and Biocritical Information. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1993. Frick - Reference - NE507 W53 1993
ULS Film and Video Collection
The Media Resource Center. on Ground floor of Hillman Library (near the Cup and Chaucer Café) includes a sizeable collection of films on DVD, laserdisc and 16 mm film that supports classroom instruction across disciplines with an emphasis on Film Studies. The collection includes material on video and performance art.
The collection is primarily non-circulating. Films and videos may be previewed in the Media Resource Center during regular hours of operation.
Hours: M-Th 8:30-8:30; F 8:30-5:00; Sa-Su Noon – 8:30 pm
Films and the work of video artists can be found in Pitt Cat. To locate a particular film, use the KEYWORD SEARCH SCREEN, entering a distinctive keyword from the film’s title in the first box and the word “videorecording” in the second box. To locate films on a
--30-- particular subject, enter an appropriate keyword in the first box and the word “videorecording” in the second box.
An in-house online film/video catalog also enables you to explore the collection’s holdings. The catalog has been mounted on the Web, and may be found at the following address:
http://cidde-web.pitt.edu/av/
The web site allows you to search the catalog records by ID number (for example, D-384 for Lucas’s American Graffiti), by keyword in the title field, or by keyword in the description field. This search format enables you to locate all the productions of Hamlet that use the play’s title, for example, by entering “Hamlet” as a keyword in the search box for title keywords. Films about Tibet, the Holocaust, or any number of other subjects in the film/video collection can be identified by entering appropriate keywords in the search box for description keywords.
The collection includes many videos created by Andy Warhol and other filmmakers, as well as selected contemporary video artists such as Shirin Neshat, William Kentridge and Bill Viola. The following collection is also important to art history students studying video art or the moving image.
Point of View [videorecording]: An Anthology of the Moving Image. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003. Media Resource Center – G20 Hillman Library – Limited Access – DVD-3476-3486 A collection of 11 videodiscs (ca. 67 min.); sound; color. Features 11 of the most important artists, worldwide working in film, video and digital imagery today. Each DVD features the artist’s newly commissioned project; an in-depth interview with the artist; an image library of the artist’s previous work; and biographical matieral.
Searching the Internet
These selected Internet sites are grouped according to what they do. The Site Indexes provide searchable and browsable subject access to a very large number of Web sites and Web pages. The Metasites provide lists of links either grouped by subject or arranged alphabetically. The Specialized Image Collections are searchable and/or browsable databases, sometimes called “imagebases,” created by individuals or by organizations such as museums.
Contemporary Artist’s Web Sites
When searching for images by contemporary, especially emerging artists, the Internet may well be the only place to find results because there are few printed publications available. Use www.google.com and do a Boolean search for the artist’s name. Use the Google Images tab to limit the search to images only. The quotation marks tell the computer to search for those words in that order.
“Tomma Abts” “Chiho Aoshima” “Mamma Andersson” “Kaoru Arima”
--31-- Site Indexes Yahoo! - Arts (http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/) Yahoo!Inc. Yahoo! indexes a huge number of Web sites and pages. Choose the option to search all of Yahoo! In the search box type in title and artist, e.g., "Water Lilies Monet." Yahoo! ranks the results so the links most relevant to your search will display first. Yahoo! - Arts:Artists also is browsable by categories for Architects, Illustrators, Painters, Photographers, Printmakers, and Sculptors as well as by alphabetical lists. World Wide Arts Resources (http://wwar.com/index.html) World Wide Art Resources, Corp. Comprehensive site of information on artists, museums, galleries, fine art, art history, art education, antiques, dance, theater, and more. Extensive collection of original and contemporary art online.
Metasites Art History: Image Resources (general)-- Lists of Artists-- Prints and Photography (http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks4.html#Images) Chris Witcombe, Art History Department, Sweet Briar College. This frequently updated site provides links to specialized image sites listed by art historical period and to many of the major image sites such as Yahoo!'s Artists database.
Google Image Search Google, one of the best mega-search engines on the Internet, features an “Images” tab that allows a user to search for images of paintings, sculptures, architecture, cities and other things. The sites claims to be the most comprehensive on the Internet. If, for example, you need a reproduction of Van Gogh’s Starry Night, go to the Google web site at www.google.com and click the Images search tab, enter a key word search like the one illustrated below. ‘’Van Gogh” AND “Starry Night”
Digital Librarian: Images (http://www.digital-librarian.com/images.html) Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, N.Y. This site provides an alphabetical list of links to sites containing images of a variety of wonderful things including wildflowers, daguerreotypes, history of the American West, medicine, posters, presidential and first lady portraits from the Library of Congress, Life magazine, NASA, and the Yankees. Many links are to sites of photographs, documents, manuscripts, and book texts and plates. Annotations provided for some sites.
Image Collections and Online Art (http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/images.html) Maintained currently by Patrick Young, University of Michigan, Art History Department. Created by Andrew Midkiff as part of his "Mother of All Art History Link Pages". Sites are grouped by subject: photography, general, Africa, Americas, etc.
Some Specialized Image Collections
For Internet sites relating to architecture, please see Library Guide No. 24 entitled Art History: Sources in Architecture. Copies are located in the Frick Fine Arts Library.
American Memory: Photographs, Prints, & Drawings http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/phcoll.new.html
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Noteworthy are the collections of thousands of photographs of Americana, especially the 4,000 panoramic photographs taken between 1851 and 1991.
--32-- Art Images for College Teaching http://www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html/
A royalty free site that offers images of ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern and non-Western art. Art Resource http://www.artres.com
Over 100,000 keyword searchable fine art images from the world’s leading sources. ArtCyclopedia http://www.artcyclopedia.com
The site’s mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet. The site consists of a comprehensive indez of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art Terminology (http://www.artlex.com) Michael Delahunt, Sonoran Sky Elementary School, Scottsdale, Arizona. Includes 2,600 art and art-related terms with many illustrations and links to images, artist pages, and other relevant Web sites. Alphabetical index and list of "shortcuts" to broad subjects, e.g., ceramics. ArtsEdNet Image Image Galleries and Exhibitions (http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/images/index.html) Getty Education Institute for the Arts. This site includes a collection of images with accompanying information for K-12 teachers. The images are sorted by Artist, Title, and Date. Carol Gerten's Fine Art--A Virtual Art Museum (http://sunsite.unc.edu/cjackson/) (University of North Carolina mirror site) Hundreds of images are presented with thumbnails providing title, date, medium, and image size. The artists database can be searched by an alphabetical name index or by a nationality/time index. The Featured Artists are represented by more than five images and have biographical sketches from Microsoft's online Encarta Encyclopedia; these artists also are noted in the alphabetical name index. Renaissance through Modern. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Art Imagebase (http://www.thinker.org) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF). The FAMSF are in the process of putting their entire collections online. 70,000 images are in the imagebase which is searchable by keyword, artist, country, and period. The Collections include western, African and Oceanic art with particular strength in American art. Icon Browser (http://www.ibiblio.org/gio/iconbrowser/) Gioacchino La Vecchia, Computer Science Department, Pisa University, Italy. Searchable archive of icons in the public domain. New York Public Library Digital Gallery http://www.nypl.org/digital/
A digitized collection of 550,000 images from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of NYPL. The database is updated daily. A search under Asia brings up 658 items; Japan design reaps 132 images. Prints digital or print are easily ordered, and permissions and rights can be arranged throuogh the Department of Photographic Services and Permissions.
--33-- Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu
Explore the world’s largest complex of museums and other affiliated collections via the Smithsonian portal. The Smithsonian collections own more than 136 million artowkrs,. Objects and specimens and each museum maintains its own Web site, usually comprised of thousands of online images and hundreds of educational materials. SPIRO (http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse-spiro_form.html) Architecture Slide Library, University of California at Berkeley. Visual online catalog of architectural slides. Currently, about 20,000 thumbnail images with descriptions are searchable by Personal Names, Object Titles, Locations, Subject Terms, or Abbreviations. Searches also can be refined by selecting a Period or Topic. THAIS (http://www.thais.it) This site has hundreds of images of Italian sculpture and European architecture searchable by keyword or browsable by indexes. University of Pittsburgh – D-Scribe, Digital Publishing
Available for use at any public terminal in ULS libraries. Begin at the ULS Home Page and click D- SCRIBE PUBLISHING. Using the drop-down box on the D-Scribe page and choose “Image Collections.” Includes such image collections as: Aerial Photographs of Pittsburgh (1923-1932), Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs [of Pittsburgh, 1874-1958], Chartres Cathedral of Notre Dame (comprehensive collection), Documenting Pitt, Historic Pittsburgh Image Collections, Pittsburgh City Photographer, Vezelay [Burgundy], and others. Web Gallery of Art (http://gallery.euroweb.hu) Emil Kren and Daniel Marx. Contains more than 3,500 images of European paintings and sculptures done between 1200 and 1700. The collection covers Renaissance art from its Byzantine and Gothic beginnings to its Mannerist evolution. Searchable by author, time-line, school, form, type, title, or text. Provides an alphabetical list of artists and an Artist Index. WebMuseum, Paris http://mexplaza.udg.mx/wm/
Biographical information with thumbnails and higher resolution images. WebSEEK (http://disney.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek/) Columbia University. Subtitled "A Content-Based Image and Video Search and Catalog Tool for the Web," this site has cataloged over 650,000 images and videos of people, places, and things including works of art. Browsable by an extensive subject list. Some reservations: many duplicates of the same subject, inaccessible links, and unexpected results, e.g., a picture of Shirley Temple is among the images retrieved from the search 'Architecture': 'temples'.
World Heritage List (http://www.unesco.org/whc/heritage.htm) UNESCO. Images and descriptions of over 700 protected cultural and natural sites worldwide arranged alphabetically by country. Click on HomePage for more information about the project and sites. Net Art
Nothing since the invention of photography has had a greater impact on artistic practice than the emergence of digital technologies. A small sampling of net art sites is listed below.
--34-- BitStreams: Contemporary Art Harnesses Digital Media Whitney Museum of American Art, March 22, 2001 – June 10, 2001 http://www.whitney.org/bitstreams/ This continues to be accessible from the Whitney Museum of American Art web site (www.whitney.org). BitStreams is a provocative and stimulating presentation of contemporary art that harnesses digital media to achieve new dimensions of artistic expressions through the transformation of images, space, data, and sound. It was the first exhibition dedicated to American digital art. You must have the following loaded on your computer in order to view this digital exhibition: Internet Explorer 4.0+ or Netscape 4.0+, Macromedia Flash 4 plug-in (for viewing), Adobe Acrobat (for printing), Real Player G2 plug-in (for sound).
New Media Encyclopedia www.newmedia.org The first online catalog of new media collections of three European cultural institutions: Musée national d’art modern, Centre Georges Pompidou; Museum Ludwig in Cologne; and the Centre pour l’image contemporaine Saint-Gervais in Geneva. One thousand works by two hundred artists are accessible with textual commentary, links to definitions, theory, and historical background. The works are international in scope.
Potatoland www.potatoland.org Mark Napier’s site produced to give any viewer a new look at web activities. Interactive to the max, try the Shredder, Landfill, Pulse, and Feed and any other available activities. Rhizome.org www.rhizome.org Rhizome.org is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1996 to provide an online platform for the global new media art community. Programs and services support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. Core activities include: commissions, email discussions and publications, its web site, and events. The Rhizome.org community is geographically dispersed, and includes artists, curators, writers, designers, programmers, students, educators, and new media professionals. E.space www.sfmoma.org/espace/espace_overview.html On online gallery of commissioned digital works that began in the Spring of 2000 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Included is a seminal digital exhibition entitled 010101: Art in Technological Times by Jason Spingarn-Koff. It was (and still is, thanks to the Internet) an exhibition about the impact of technology on our daily lives. It was the first show to feature new-media art. You may need some serious software to view this exhibition at San Francisco’s MOMA which is titled with 0’s and 1’s as a nod to the binary code that is the basis of all digital information.
Tate Galleries, Net Art www.tate.org.uk/netart A collection of net art that the Tate Galleries has mounted on the Internet. See also their unique “Art in Space!”
Walker Art Center Gallery 9 http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9 Rhizome.org cites the Walker Art Center’s exhibit as the best example of a museum curating net
--35-- Locating Images of Artworks for Publication
The process of acquiring original photographs to be published within a scholarly work can be a very time consuming, frustrating and expensive process. NOTE: Many museums and other institutions, however, are beginning to waive fees for their scholarly users to promote scholarly publishing in the discipline. The ArtSTOR database now offers scholars images in their databases, in cooperation with the Metropolitan Museum, available for free publication. There are no handy lists of photographic sources or quick avenues of retrieval. One must chiefly pursue indirect paths when attempting to locate photographic copies of art. A few tips are provided below.
Slide Vendors
See Walker's Image Buyers' Guide listed above in this guide. Note that many slide collections at institutions are in the process of converting their images to digital collections.
References Uncovered in the Art and Architectural History Literature
• You will find photographic archives mentioned in the literature as you do your research (e.g., Fratelli Alinari in Florence).
• Learn to notice captions under illustrations or lists of illustrations in art books.
• You will also learn of photographic archives and private photographers in your field through discussions with colleagues.
A Sampling of Photo Archives and Picture Collections
A thorough listing of photo archives and picture collections is provided in Walker’s Image Buyer’s Guide listed above in this guide. Many of these businesses have changed in recent years and some have gone out of business. It is best to use Walker’s Image Buyer’s Guide for a reasonably up-to-date listing of photographic archives and slide sales in England, Europe, and the United States. A few resources are, however, listed below:
England
Courtauld Institute of Art, London http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/research/photographic/witt/index.html The library is a collection of reproductions after paintings, drawings and prints, of western art, covering the period 1200 to the present day. Original photographs and cuttings from published material are filed on open access shelves, organized alphabetically by artist within ‘national schools’. All major artists are represented in depth and one of the strengths of the library is its coverage of lesser-known artists, unparalleled elsewhere. The collection contains approximately 1.9 million reproductions after works by 70,000 artists and has recently incorporating the photographic records of the British Council and The Fine Art Society. Also includes the Conway Collection of thousands of images relating to architecture.
University Colour Slide Scheme Somerset House, Strand Courtauld Institute of Art London England WC2 ORN Telephone: 44 0 171 873 2508
--36-- Fax: 44 1 171 873 2772 E-Mail: [email protected] Enormous collection of reproductions of paintings, drawings, and graphics of European and Western Schools (1250 to the present). Photographic Survey Dept. has photographed more than 400 private art collections in England, Wales, and Ireland. A microfiche edition of some reproductions is available in Hillman Library – Microforms Coll. – Ground floor
France
L’agence photographique Reunion des Musée Nationaux 10 rue de l’Abbaye 75006 Paris, France Telephone: 33 1 40 13 46 00 Fax: 33 1 40 13 46 01 E-mail: [email protected]
Germany
Bildarchiv Foto Marburg Wlkfstrasse Postfach 1460 D-3550 Marburg, Germany Telephone: + 0049 0 6421 28-3600 Fax: + 0049 0 6421 28-8931 E-mail: [email protected] The vast collection of photographs of art in Germany of the Rheinisches Bildarchiv is reproduced on microfiche along with the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg at the Forschungsinstitut für Kunstgeschichte der Philipps- Universität Marburg, to form the Marburger Index. A portion of the Marburger photographic archive is located in on microfiche in the Microforms Collection of Hillman Library (Ground floor).
Marburger Index: Inventory of Art in Germany – Users’ Manual. Ed. by the Bildarchiv Foto Marburg. English trans. by Christopher Moos. 2nd ed. New York: K. G. Saur, 1985. Hillman Library – Microforms (Ground floor) – N6861/M37/1985
Italy
Bibliotheca Herziana Max Planc Institut Via Gregoriana 28 I-00187 Roma Italia
Gabinetto Fotografico Soprintendenza Beni Artistici e Storici via Della Ninna Firenze 5 Italia
--37-- Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz Bibliothek Via di Vincigliata 26 I-50135 Firenze Italia
Netherlands
Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie Korte Vijverberg 7 Den Haag ('S-Gravenhage) 2005 Nederland
Spain
Ampliaciones y reproducciones Mas Frenéria 5, 3º 08002 Barcelona, Espagna Telephone: 93 315 27 06
United States
Art Resource 65 Bleeker Street, 9th floor New York, NY 10012 Telephone: 212-505-8700 or 212-420-9286
Art Resource is the U.S. distributor of photographs from Alinari Brothers (in Florence), Marburger Index (Germany), and Photo Giraudon (Paris).
The Hillman Library has a few photographic collections issued by those companies on microfiche: Alinari Photo Archive (126,000 photographs of Italian art monuments on 1,344 fiche); Marburger Index (inventory of art in Germany - 480,000 images on 4,800 fiche); Index photographique de l'art en France (95,000 photographs on 976 fiche).
Asian Art Photographic Distribution Dept. of the History of Art University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1357 Telephone: 734-634-5555 Fax: 734-647-4121 E-mail: [email protected]
Frick Art Reference Library – Digital Collection http://www.frick.org/library/conservation/collections.htm The cornerstone of the Frick Art Reference Library's collections is its photoarchive. Begun in 1920, the archive was inspired by Sir Robert Witt's collection of photographs of European art, now part of the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Today the Library’s photoarchive comprises more than one million reproductions of works of art. This collection must be used at the Frick Art Reference Library in New York City. Phone: 212-547-0641; Fax: 212-879-2091; E-mail: [email protected]
The Getty Research Institute – Photo Study Collection http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/photo_study_collection/
--38-- The Photo Study Collection's two million photographs facilitate supplementary and original pictorial research for the study of fine arts from antiquity to the modern period. The collection's strength lies in the photographic reproduction of western art, architecture, and decorative arts. Patrons can conduct productive research on the history of collecting (provenance, art market, connoisseurship), iconography, conservation, historiography, and the history of reproductions. Approximately half of the photographic holdings in the Photo Study Collection are represented by descriptive, non-pictorial records in the Photo Study Collection Database, which is available online to all users. This research database is a work in progress, mostly comprising these descriptive records. Images will be added to the database periodically. The holdings of the Photo Study Collection are available for research by stack readers and extended readers. Initial appointments with a Reference Librarian are strongly encouraged. This collection must be used at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA. Phone: 310- 440-7390; Fax: 310-440-7780. National Gallery of Art – Image Collections http://www.nga.gov/resources/dlidesc.shtm The Department of Image Collections is the study and research center for images of Western art and architecture at the National Gallery of Art. It was formed in 2004 with the merger of two visual resources departments. The slide collection, begun in 1941, and the photograph collection, founded in1943, combined now number almost ten million photographs, slides, negatives, and microform images, making it one of the largest resources of its kind. The Department of Image Collections serves the Gallery's staff, members of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, visiting scholars, and serious adult researchers. This collection must be used at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Phone: 202-842-6026; Fax: 202-789-3068
*"The person who knows where knowledge is, as good as has it." -- Brunetiere 19 - 07/30/07
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