ARTstor Digital Library is highlighting several of their collections throughout February in honor of Black History Month. The ARTstor Digital Library consists of more than one million images covering art, architecture, and archaeology. It can be accessed by visiting the library’s list of All Databases.
Magnum Photos Collection Magnum photographers have produced some of the most celebrated and recognizable photographs of the 20th century and contemporary life, documenting an astounding range of subjects, whether industry, society and people, places of interest, politics and news events, or disasters and conflicts. Total size of collection: 79,696 images
Image of the Black in Western Art Collection comes from an archive of the same name at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, the nation’s oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of Africans and African Americans. One of institute’s research initiatives is the Image of the Black in Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, a systematic investigation of how people of African descent have been perceived and represented in Western art.
Eugene James Martin Collection: Approximately 200 images of works by African-American artist Eugene James Martin are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. The vibrant, abstract works represented in ARTstor include paintings on canvas, mixed media collages, and pencil, pen, and ink drawings. Martin’s use of color is distinctive, contrasting broad swathes of intense color with finely worked areas of pastel shades. He also mixed whimsical allusions to animals and machines with wry cultural and personal references, creating introspective works infused with a gentle humor.