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Over 12 million color-illustrated art auction records dating back to 1985 covering more than 1,800 auction houses and 340,000 artists. Browse by gallery, auction house, and artist. Contains biographical information.
The JSTOR platform is now the official home for the complete Artstor Digital Library, an unmatched collection of rights-cleared images and media for use in teaching and research. Comprised of over 2 million images, videos, panoramas, and audio files contributed by museums, galleries, and other cultural organizations around the world, the collection is now known as “Artstor on JSTOR,” signaling the collection’s deep integration with the more than 2,800 journals, 100,000 books, 50,000 research reports, and robust primary source collections accessible on JSTOR.
The Exhibitions Photographs Collection contains photographs of exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art from 1923 to 2008. As not all BMA exhibitions were originally photographed, not all exhibitions are included in this collection, and the volume of materials ranges widely between exhibitions. The collection primarily includes exhibitions from the Museum’s original temporary home at 101 W. Monument Street and the BMA Downtown gallery as well as the permanent Wyman Park location. For more details about the materials in the Exhibitions Photographs Collection, see the finding aid for the collection: https://archives.artbma.org/repositories/3/resources/39
Black Artists in the Museum shares stories about people and objects that shed light on the historical relationship of African Americans to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Undergraduate students in the Program in Museums and Society at the Johns Hopkins University created the content, and it is curated and edited by their professor, Dr. Jennifer P. Kingsley. The project runs in partnership with the Baltimore Museum of Art. It offers students a unique opportunity to dig deeply into the processes that elevate some artists and works of art above others and invites them to question dominant art-historical narratives.
Digital Maryland (previously Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage or MDCH), is a collaborative, statewide digitization program of the Maryland State Library Resource Center, Enoch Pratt Free Library. Its mission is to facilitate the digitization and digital exhibition of the historical and cultural documents, images, audio and video held by Maryland institutions. The Baltimore Museum of Art Library & Archives contributed content to Art Clubs of Baltimore. Art Clubs of Baltimore Collection contains information about the art clubs that supported the arts in Baltimore between 1883 and 1965, mainly, the Charcoal Club and the Beaux Arts Club, and two associated clubs, the Baltimore Water Color Club and the Baltimore Camera Club. Taken from the Alfred Winfield Strahan Papers and the James Hall Bready Papers housed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this collection consists of artwork, correspondence, exhibition catalogs, ephemera, medals, photographs, and newspaper clippings about the clubs and their activities.
JSTOR is a digital library founded in 1994. It provides access to academic journals, books, images, and primary sources in a wide variety of subject areas in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
The largest online newspaper archive, established in 2012. Used by millions for genealogy and family history, historical research, crime investigations, journalism, and entertainment. Search for obituaries, marriage announcements, birth announcements, social pages, national and local news articles, sports, advertisements, entertainment, fashion and lifestyle pages, comics, and more.
OCLC FirstSearch is an online reference system that provides access to a wide range of resources in 4 databases, ArticleFirst (OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals), ECO (An OCLC collection of scholarly journals), UnionLists (List of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries), & WorldCat (OCLC catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide).
WorldCat.org is a resource for locating unique, trustworthy materials that you often can’t find anywhere except in a library. By connecting thousands of libraries’ collections in one place, WorldCat.org makes it easy for you to browse the world’s libraries from one search box.
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