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Washington Crossing the Delaware
by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1897, oil, 12'5" x 21'3". Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. |
Young Woman With a Water Pitcher
by Johannes Vermeer,
ca. 1662, oil, 18 x 16. Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. |
In a new initiative designed to assist scholars with teaching, study, and the publication of academic works, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, has begun distributing high-resolution digital images from its collection, free of charge, for use in academic publications. This new service is available through ARTstor, a nonprofit organization that makes art images available for educational use. ARTstor has worked in close consultation with The Metropolitan Museum of Art staff to create this new service, titled Images for Academic Publishing, which will make images available via software on the ARTstor website. Nearly 1,700 images, representative of the broad range of the museum’s collection, are available from more than 730 institutions located in North America, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Efforts to expand the number of accessible images are already underway and will be announced at a later date.
For more information, visit www.artstor.org.