Photographs from the Permanent Collection
The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection is comprised of over 1,000 photographs and photographic portfolios featuring some of the most important images from the mid- to late 20th-century. The photography collection grew dramatically in the last several years thanks to the efforts of Michael E. Hoffman, SLU ’64, former executive director of the Aperture Foundation, who, since his years at St. Lawrence, was a steadfast supporter of the Collection. In 2000, the Gallery published Photographs at St. Lawrence University: A Critical Survey and Catalogue (Stinehour Press). All of the Gallery’s 211 photographic reproductions in the book are included in this online image collection. Featured are works by Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Harold Edgerton, Nathan Farb, Carole Gallagher, Bill Gaskins, Nan Goldin, Mark Klett ’74, W. Eugene Smith, Paul Strand, Garry Winogrand, David Wojnarowicz, and Alison Wright, among many others. More recent acquisitions will be forthcoming, including photographs by Jeff Brouws, Amanda Means, Abelardo Morell, and Viggo Mortensen ’80.
In 1987, as part of the University’s then annual Steinman Festival of the Arts, Vietnam War veteran Dick Amerault and photographer Boyd Nicholl organized what they called a “balanced view of the war era” in an exhibition of photographs by American G.I.s and nurses at home and abroad. 1992, Amerault donated 63 photographs from the exhibition to St. Lawrence University in honor of art historian and fine arts faculty member Elizabeth Kahn. The images, by amateur and professional photographers, depict battlefields, war zones, soldiers and prisoners, and villages and city life in Vietnam, as well as protests, sit-ins, and peace marches in the United States, and they offer a great deal of potential for use in research and course-related studies.
Christopher ‘70 and Nora Leonard Roy ‘69 Collection of West African Textiles
A gift of 70 West African textiles from the collection of Chris and Nora Roy include a variety of woven and sewn cloths, blankets, robes, shirts, and wrappers. Collected between 1970 – 2007, the textiles originate from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Cape Verde, and other countries in the region. Stanzi McGlynn ‘10 was awarded a special research fellowship, titled “From Weave to Web: Creating an Online Digital Collection of West African Textiles,” which helped support this project.
ARTstor, initiated in 2001 by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.
To obtain access to ARTstor images and collections, users should contact SLU’s ARTstor representative, Michelle Gillie, via mgillie@stlawu.edu in order to create a registered username and password.
***Users may upload personal image and sound files to ARTstor’s platform, and in the spring of 2009, ARTstor will implement a beta bulk download feature that will allow users to download groups of images directly into PowerPoint. This feature will enable users to bulk download up to 500 images per semester, facilitating the offline use of images for teaching and study.
For more information, please contact the Gallery at www.stlawu.edu/gallery.
Europeana.eu provide links to 4 million digital items from organizations around Europe. Selections come from:
- Images – paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects
- Texts – books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers
- Sounds – music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
- Videos – films, newsreels and TV broadcasts
Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe’s
- museums and galleries
- archives
- libraries
- audio-visual collections
Europeana.edu consists of organizations that contribute content in the form of digitized paintings, books, archival materials, broadcasts, etc.
Some of these contributors are aggregators. An aggregator collects material from a range of other contributors, displays it on their own website and also channels it into Europeana.
Culture.fr is the largest aggregator, providing content from about 480 organizations in France, including the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay.
One can search, save, and tag images and easily load images from Europeana.eu into PowerPoint.
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