(5 January 2016) The Artstor Digital Library now boasts more than two million images in all subjects and periods from more than 290 collections worldwide. 200,000 new images were added in 2015 as well as the first video collection of 50 groundbreaking art performances from the Franklin Furnace Archives. Artstor also reached new agreements with museums, galleries, artists, universities, and archives to keep the Digital Library growing in scope and comprehensiveness.
New and expanded collections released in 2015:
- Art Gallery of Ontario
- Art on File Collection: Mexico City and Rotterdam
- Asia Art Archive
- Avery/GSAPP Architectural Plans and Sections (Columbia University)
- Condé Nast
- Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Collection
- Foundation for Landscape Studies
- Fowler Museum
- Franklin Furnace Archives: videos
- Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings
- Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
- Harvard Art Museums
- Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
- The Mattress Factory
- Thomas McGovern
- Museum of the City of New York
- Wangechi Mutu
- National Gallery of Art
- Joseph Peller
Renzo Piano Building Workshop - Howardena Pindell
- QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture (Columbia University)
- Rhizome
- Rijksmuseum
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Bob Schalkwijk
- Seattle Art Museum
- Smith College Museum of Art
- Abby Williams Hill Collection (University of Puget Sound)
- Donald Woodman
- Worcester Art Museum
New and expanded agreements reached in 2015:
- Pacita Abad Art Estate
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- The Bard Graduate Center
- Cincinnati Art Museum
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- Colby College Museum of Art
- Richard S. Ellis, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (Bryn Mawr College)
- Glenstone
- William Randolph Hearst Archive (Long Island University)
- Hofstra University Museum
- The International Museum of Children’s Art
- Ada Karmi-Melamede Architects
- The Menil Collection
- New-York Historical Society
- Joseph Peller
- Howardena Pindell
- RISD Museum
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Tufts University Art Gallery
- UBC Museum of Anthropology and UBC Library
- University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture
- University of Puget Sound
- Williams College Museum of Art
New resources added in 2015:
The curriculum guides have been expanded – collections of images based on syllabi for college courses curated by faculty members and experts around the country – with four new guides on English Literature:
- British Romantic Poetry by Hugh Roberts, Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine
- Gender in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature by Jennifer L. Airey, Associate Professor of English at the University of Tulsa
- Gothic Literature, also by Jennifer L. Airey
- The Coffeehouse: English Literature and the Culture of the Public Sphere, 1660-1740 by Misty G. Anderson, Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
The announcement in full is here.