ARTstor, A Resource for Historians

The ARTstor Digital Archive Collection contains over 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data from notable art and architecture collections worldwide. The collection spans many times and cultures and encompasses architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Intended to support teaching and research in art history, architecture, the humanities, and related disciplines, ARTstor also includes the tools to actively access, manipulate, and deliver these images. Currently, ARTstor is comprised of the following special collections: the Art History Survey Collection; the Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection; the Huntington Archive of Asian Art; the Museum of Modern Art Architecture and Design Collection; the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive of murals and texts from Buddhist cave shrines in China; and the Smithsonian Native American Art and Culture collection. A core collection, The Image Gallery, is comprised of over 200,000 reproductions from slides "created in response to fairly representative teaching needs in the arts, humanities, and social sciences." Many images familiar to students of American history are included -- and all periods are covered. Upcoming collections will cover women in America, Hellenistic and Roman sculpture, the art and architecture of Islam, the image of the Black in Western art, and more. By 2006, ARTstor is expected to contain approximately 500,000 images.

University faculty, staff, and students. as well as onsite visitors, may access this resource at: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/ARTstor.html