51,000 New Images

Last month, ARTstor expanded their Digital Library by adding 51,000 new images from 15 contributors.  The contributors include:

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Rijksmuseum, the state museum of the Netherlands
  • The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (exhibition installation photographs)
  • Lukas-Art in Flanders, an archival repository for Flemish museums
  • Phillips Collection
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (exhibition installation photographs)
  • Romare Bearden Foundation
  • Classical Sculptures from Berlin State Museums
  • ART on FILE Collection (photographs of architecture in Istanbul)
  • Museum of the City of New York
  • Ackland Art Museum
  • Flint Institute of Arts
  • Smith College Museum of Art
  • Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
  • Cedric Van Eenoo, abstract painter

If none of these collections interest you, there are over 500,000 other images to browse in ARTstor.  For instance, here are a few of Milton Rogovin’s social documentary photographs which can be found in ARTstor.  A photographer and political activist, Milton Rogovin (b. 1909) is best known for his portraits of the poor and working class and his depictions of their lives, communities, and working conditions.

Black woman with yarn at machine in factory.  Cuba.  1984-1989

Children waiting for bookmobile.  Appalachia series.  1962-1987

Two white men with black woman between them.  Lower West Side Series.  1973

Woman selling iguanas.  Early Mexico series.  1953-1961

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