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American
History Collection
The history of America expressed in images of its land and people. Maps
of newly-explored territories, paintings of spectacular landscapes, and
drawings of native people and cultures are presented in a collection of remarkable
images that reveal the mystery and vitality of the New World.
Example Art/Artists: George Catlin, Thomas
Moran, U.S. Geological Survey Maps & Sketches,
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Birds & Botanicals
Collection
Among the most popular images
in the world are works depicting Birds and Plants. This
collection is a combination of images from several of our Museums. It
includes bird prints produced by Audubon, Botanical Prints from
the Desert Botanical Gardens and other spectacular Bird
and Botanical images produced by some of the great Japanese
print makers and renowned European naturalists.
Example
Art/Artists: Albrecht,
Audubon, Ehret,
Finch, Fossier, Henderson, Redoute, Utamaro
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The
British Library
St Pancras
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
The British Library is the national library
of the United Kingdom and one of the world's great repositories of knowledge.
Serving business, educational, and individual needs, its vision is to
make the intellectual, scientific and cultural heritage of the world
accessible to all people. Materials from 300 BC to today are included
in its holdings, and treasures such as the Magna Carta and Leonardo da
Vinci's notebook are counted among its treasures.
Example
Art/Artists: Beowulf, Diamond Sutra, Gutenberg Bible,
Magna Carta, Leonardo
da Vinci notebooks
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The
British Library - Antique
Maps Collection
St Pancras
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
The British Library is the United Kingdom’s national library and
one of the finest in the world. Its collections of rare and antique maps
are not only magnificent works of art, but also offer fascinating insights
into the history of our exploration and understanding of the world in
which we live.
Example
Art/Artists: Antique
Maps
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The
British Library - Flora
and Fauna Collection
St Pancras
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
The British Library is the United Kingdom’s
national library and one of the finest in the world. Its superb collection
of animal, bird,
and plant illustrations is a compelling reminder of the beauty and elegance
of the living world around us.
Example
Art/Artists: Animal,
Bird, and Plant Illustrations
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The
British Museum
Great
Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
The British Museum is one of the greatest museums of the world. It
was founded by Act of Parliament in 1753 and is now governed under
the British Museum Act 1963. General management and control are vested
in a Board of twenty-five Trustees (one appointed by the Sovereign,
fifteen by the Prime Minister, four nominated by Learned societies
and five elected by the Trustees themselves.
Example Art/Artists: Albrecht Dürer,
Blake, Choki,
Hokusai,
Rembrandt, Turner, Utamaro, John
White
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The
British Museum - 250th
Anniversary Celebration - 1753 Collection
Great Russell
Street
London WC1B 3DG
The British Museum, founded in 1753, will be celebrating their
250th anniversary this year. The museum has chosen select images from
their archives and will be making them available to the public.
Example
Art/Artists: Philippe Boitard, Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, Louis Carmontelle
- "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Playing Piano with Father Leopold and sister
Maria Anna",
Westminister and London Bridge Sketches, etc.
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The
British Museum - Albrecht
Dürer
Collection
Great
Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
Dürer is undoubtedly the most significant and admired artist
of the northern Renaissance, and the collection of his work in The
British Museum, London is one of the best in the world. His sophisticated
development of woodcut and engraving techniques changed the history
of printmaking.
Example Art/Artists: Albrecht Dürer Woodcuts,
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The
British Museum - Japanese
Woodblock & Paintings
Collection
Great
Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
The British Museum's collection of Japanese art is the most wide-ranging
in Europe, and is particularly strong in the paintings, woodblock
prints and decorative arts of the Edo Period (1600-1868). Japanese
woodblock "ukiyo-e” prints began to appear in Europe by
1860. Although the subject matter was not well understood, their graphic
power profoundly influenced many European artists, especially Impressionist
and Post-Impressionist painters in the second half of the nineteenth
century.
Example Art/Artists: Woodblocks and Watercolor
Paintings; Choki, Hokusai, Kaisen,
Shumman, Utamaro,Yukinobu |
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The
British Museum - John White Collection
Great
Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
Although many artists had sailed in voyages of discovery to North
America, it was John White who left the first convincing record of
the lands and people he encountered. White sailed as a draughts man-surveyor
with the first expedition to colonize Roanoke, Virginia in 1585.
The
British Museum has 75 drawings from an album formerly in the library
of Lord Charlemont. A volume from the founding collection of Sir
Hans
Sloane also includes examples of White's drawings.
Example Art/Artists: John White Watercolors
and Sketches |
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The
British Museum - Michelangelo
Collection
Great
Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
The British Museum collection of work by Michelangelo includes
drawings by one of the towering figures of the Italian Renaissance. His
unsurpassed talent was expressed through sculpture, painting, and architecture,
and his art continues to astonish and inspire us with its powerful themes
and consummate skill.
Artist: Michelangelo
Buonarroti
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The
British Museum - Select Assortment
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
The British Museum now holds national collections of antiquities; coins,
medals and paper money; ethnography; and prints and drawings. This assortment
features enduring pieces from various cultures, masters, time periods and
styles.
Example Art/Artists: Blake, Misc. Egyptian,
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DeGolyer
Library
P. O. Box 750396
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275-0396
Today the DeGolyer Library holds 100,000 volumes of rare and scholarly
works devoted to the exploration and discovery of the Americas,
Western Americana, the Spanish borderlands, and Texana. The library
also possesses materials related to transportation history, especially
railroads worldwide. In addition to printed books, the library preserves
5000 cubic feet of manuscript material and 400,000 photographs.
Example
Art/Artists:
N/A
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Denver
Art Museum
13th Ave & Acoma
Downtown Denver
Denver, CO 80204
The Denver Art Museum, founded in 1893, has the largest and most
comprehensive collection of world art between Kansas City and the
West Coast. Its American Indian art collection is internationally
renowned, and its pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial art collection
is outstanding. Other impressive collections include Painting &
Sculpture, Asian, Architecture, Design & Graphics, Modern &
Contemporary, and Textile Art.
Example
Art/Artists:
Deas,
Degas,
Bierstadt, Bouguereau, Hicks, Monet, Pissarro
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Desert
Botanical Garden
1201 North Galvin Parkway
Phoenix, AZ 85008
The Desert Botanical Garden is one of the best-maintained
gardens in the world, enjoyed by local residents and visitors from around
the world. It holds one of the world's foremost collections of desert
plants with detailed records on all plants in the collection, information
which is of both horticultural and botanical value. The collection and
its documentation are of significance world-wide in conservation, education
and research.
Example
Art/Artists: Albrecht,
Ehret, Finch, Fossier, Henderson, Redoute
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Desert
Caballeros Western Museum
21
North Frontier Street
Wickenburg AZ 85390
You'll find western art, cowboy gear, and Native American arts, plus
period rooms and dioramas from Arizona's territorial era. Come discover
the "West as it was" in Arizona's Most Western Museum.
Example Art/Artists: Albert Bierstadt,
George Catlin,
Maynard Dixon,
Lon Megargee, Thomas Moran, Fredrick
Remington, Charles M. Russell,
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Dietrich
Photography
PO Box 1138
Wickenburg, AZ 85358
Providing creative professionals with first
quality photographic illustrations of outstanding clarity, color and
impact for advertising, publishing, editorial, corporate, wall art
and retail uses by Dick Dietrich and Dianne Dietrich Leis.
Example Art/Artists: Dick Dietrich and Dianne
Dietrich Leis Photography |
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Harvard
University Art Museums
The Harvard University Art Museums, one of the leading arts institutions
in the world, is distinguished by the range and depth of its collections,
groundbreaking exhibitions, and original research. The three Harvard
University Art Museums—the Fogg Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum,
and Arthur M. Sackler Museum—are all outstanding institutions in
their respective fields. The 150,000 objects in the collections date
from antiquity to the present, and come from Europe, North America, North
Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Example
Art/Artists: Burne-Jones,
Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Homer, Hopper, Hsuan-tsung
, Ingres, Klee, Klimt, Marc, Michelangelo, Monet, Rembrandt,
Renoir, Rossetti, Sargent, Van Gogh, Whistler
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Japanese
Collection - Japanese
Woodblock & Paintings Collection
Japanese woodblock "ukiyo-e” prints
began to appear in Europe by 1860. Although the subject matter was not
well understood, their graphic power profoundly influenced many European
artists, especially Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters in the
second half of the nineteenth century.
Example Art/Artists: Woodblocks and Watercolor Paintings; Choki, Hokusai,
Kaisen, Shumman, Utamaro,Yukinobu |
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Japanese
Gardens Portland
611 S.W. Kingston Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97201
The Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon is one of the most beautiful
and authentic outside of Japan.
Founded in 1962, The Garden was designed by Professor Takuma
Tono, an internationally renowned authority on Japanese garden landscaping.
It is composed of five separate styles: the Flat Garden, the Strolling
Pond Garden, the Tea Garden, the Natural Garden, and the Dry Landscape
Garden.
Example Art/Artists:
Dianne
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Joseph
Mallord William Turner Collection
Turner
is one of Britain’s most celebrated and prolific
artists who produced tens of thousand of work in his
lifetime. This special compilation of Turner’s
work shows his greatness and represents some of his
finest achievements. This selection includes works
from both the Turner Bequest and the Vaughan Bequest
both of which reside in The Tate British. The Tate
houses the largest collection of works by JMW Turner
in the world.
Artist: JMW
Turner
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Lawrence
Arts Center
940 New Hampshire Street
Lawrence, Kansas 66044
For 25 years, the Lawrence Arts Center has acted as a unifying force
in our community, drawing people of all ages, neighborhoods, backgrounds
and abilities to participate in an ever-growing array of education, exhibition
and performance programs. Performing and visual arts programs have steadily
grown to an annual participation of 95,000.
Example
Art/Artists: "Grandma" Layton
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MASTERS
Collection
This Collection of art comes from some
of the most well known artists in the
world and represents some of their most
intriguing and beautiful
images. European greats such as Monet, Degas, Rembrandt and Michelangelo
are displayed along side American legends like Homer, Bierstadt and Hopper,
in this assemblage of works from some of our most prominent Museums. Together,
these images form a World-Class compilation which epitomizes the Artistic
World.
Example
Art/Artists: Monet,
Degas, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Homer, Bierstadt, Hopper
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Monterey
Museum of Art
Civic Center
559 Pacific Street
Monterey CA 93940
Noted for its endeavor to enrich and educate through the arts, the
Monterey Museum of Art has been called "the best small town
Museum in the United States." The museum's permanent collection
includes California paintings, sculpture, works on paper and photography,
Asian art, international folk art, and features significant bodies
of work by Armin Hansen, William Ritschel, Ansel Adams, and Edward
Weston.
Example
Art/Artists: Bruton,
Hansen,
McCormick, Partington, Ritschel
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Munson-Williams-Proctor
Arts Institute
310 Genesee Street
Utica, NY 13502
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, a renowned fine arts center founded
in 1919, features a permanent collection especially noted for artwork
by the Hudson River School. The museum is also a major repository of
19th-century American decorative arts and 20th-century American paintings
and drawings with important holdings of the New York School.
Example
Art/Artists: Cole, Copley, Dali, Frankenthaler, Kandinsky,
Mondrian, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Pollock, Prendergast, Rothenberg,
Stella, Tait and Whistler
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Museum
of New Mexico - Museum of Fine Arts
107 West Palace Avenue
Santa Fe, NM 87501
This masterpiece of Pueblo Revival architecture was built in 1917 and
as the state’s oldest art museum is home to more than 20,000 works
of art, with an emphasis on artists working in the Southwest. View a
distinguished collection that spans the historic art colonies of Taos
and Santa Fe of the past 100 years to cutting-edge contemporary art from
around the region and the world.
Example
Art/Artists: Jozef G. Bakos, Andrew Michael Dasburg,
Willard van Dyke, Rebecca Salsbury James, James Stoval
Morris, Georgia O'Keeffe
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Music
and Dance Collection
This collection from various collections provides a glimpse into Music
and Dance of the past and from different cultures. Included are
portraits of several Great Composers and images of nobles and common
people as they provide entertainment to their worlds.
Example
Art/Artists: Dancers, Musicians, Parades,
Composer Portraits
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NASA
300 E St. SW
Washington, D.C.
Since its inception in 1958, NASA has accomplished many great scientific
and technological feats in air and space. NASA technology also has
been adapted for many non-aerospace uses by the private sector.
NASA remains a leading force in scientific research and in stimulating
public interest in aerospace exploration, as well as science and
technology in general. Perhaps more importantly, our exploration
of space has taught us to view the Earth, ourselves, and the universe
in a new way.
Example
Art/Artists: N/A
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New
Mexico Magazine
Lew
Wallace Building
495 old Santa fe Trail
Santa Fe, NM 87501
New Mexico Magazine, founded in 1923, reigns as the oldest state magazine
in the United States. Featuring spectacular images and fascinating
articles, it serves as the primary connection for thousands of people
interested in the cultures, stories, landscapes and people of this
ancient land. These Classic Magazine Covers and photographs offer
beautiful evidence that New Mexico is indeed, "The Land of Enchantment".
Example Art/Artists: New Mexico Magazine Old
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Norman
Rockwell Estate
Norman
Rockwell portrayed America so beautifully that his
art has become a symbol of our nation. His artwork
is filled with the details of ordinary people in
everyday life, and captures the essence of the American
spirit. Norman Rockwell's illustrations recall a
simpler time and place that existed not only in his
own imagination, but in the hopes and dreams of the
nation he loved.
Artist: Norman Rockwell
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Norman
Rockwell Estate - Christmas
Collection
Norman Rockwell's portrayals
of America are never more alive, vivid and heartfelt
than in his Christmas collection. These memorable
reflections of the spirit of giving and the warmth
of the season are timeless. Just as with his political
and social images, he has captured the simple yet
deep emotions perfectly.
Artist: Norman Rockwell
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Sports
Collection
World History has been greatly influenced by sports. The
contest of man versus man or man versus beast has been illustrated
since the first expressions of Art. This interesting collection
provides a wide variety of rare images of sports events and captures
such unique sports as jousting, hunting and archery.
Example Art/Artists: Archery, Hunting, Fishing, Jousting, Golf, Hawking,
Horse Racing, Indian Lacrosse
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The
Tate Museum
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
The Tate galleries house the national collection of British art
from the sixteenth century to the present day, including the Turner Bequest,
and the national collection of international modern art. The Tate has
almost 60,000 works in its collection, and includes the largest collection
of works by JMW Turner in the world. This selection of works includes
great images by Tate, Sargent, Whistler, Fildes and Millais.
Example
Artists: Sargent, Turner, Whistler,
Fildes and Millais
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Toledo
Museum of Art
2445
Monroe Street at Scottwood Avenue
Toledo, Ohio 43620, USA
In the heart of the Midwest
lies one of the great Art Treasures of this continent.
With more than 30,000 items, The Toledo Museum of
Art houses several thousand of them on a permanent
basis in its 35 galleries. The Permanent Collection
includes a great diversity of works from African
Artists to Van Gogh, from Tibetan Sculptures to Degas,
from Egyptian Stucco to Matisse.
Example Artists: Van
Gogh, Degas, Matisse, Turner
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U.S.
Fish & Wildlife
Service - Federal Duck Stamp
Office
Since beginning in 1934, the Federal
Duck Stamp Program has become one of the most popular and
successful conservation programs ever initiated. These
wonderful images have provided habitat protection for birds,
mammals, fish, reptiles and amphibians. An estimated one
third of the nation's endangered and threatened species
find food or shelter in refuges preserved by Duck Stamp
funds. The protected wetlands also help dissipate storms,
purify water supplies, store flood water, and nourish fish
hatchlings for sport and commercial fishermen.
Example Art/Artists: Duck
Stamp artwork
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U.S.
Geological Survey
USGS
National Center
Reston, VA 20192, USA
Created by an act of Congress in 1879, the USGS has evolved over
the ensuing 120 years, matching its talent and knowledge to the
progress of science and technology. Today, the USGS stands as the
sole science agency for the Department of the Interior. It is sought
out by thousands of partners and customers for its natural science
expertise and its vast earth and biological data holdings. The
USGS
is the science provider of choice in accessing the information
and helping resolve natural resource problems
across the Nation and around the world.
Example
Art/Artists:
N/A
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Vintage
Reproductions
Vintage Posters, or Art Posters as they are often called, have proven
to be very popular items over the years. From the Classic British
Sports poster in our collection to the Product Advertisements from the
beginning of the 1900's, we reproduce these images with the same archival
quality materials that we use for all of our prints. These images
will last a lifetime and will add a great touch to many homes
and offices.
Example
Art/Artists: Early
1900s Product Advertisements, British Sports Poster, Magazine Covers,
Victorian Images
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World
Religions
There is arguably no greater influence on Art than
Religion. Through the centuries, Religion has been a major inspiration
to the artist. This is true regardless of the Religion or Religious event
that has been portrayed. This is a very substantial collection compiled
from a wide variety of sources including the British Library, the Denver
Art Museum, the Museum of New Mexico, the Tate Museums, the British Museum,
Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, The Desert Caballeros Western
Museum and Harvard.
Example
Art/Artists: Catholic, Hindu, Muslim, Native American, and
other religious imagry
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The
Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge University
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1RB England
The Fitzwilliam Museum, founded in 1816 and functioning as the art museum
of the University of Cambridge, is one of the principal art collections
in Great Britain. Its collections of art and antiquities span civilizations
and millennia, and are of national and international importance.
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Orlando
Museum of
Art
2416 North Mills Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32803-1483
The Orlando Museum of Art is a leading cultural institution dedicated
to collecting, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of local, regional,
national and international significance. Cited as one of the best art
museums in the South, its American Art Collection consists of paintings,
drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures from the 18th century to
the present.
Example
Art/Artists: Peale,
Sargent, Moran, Hassam, Inness, and O'Keeffe
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The
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
224 Benefit Street
Providence, RI 02903
The RISD Museum traces the history of art from antiquity to the
present through its collection of more than 85,000 works of art in all
media and from all cultures. Works of Art range
from ancient Greek and Roman sculpture to French Impressionist paintings,
from Chinese stone and terracotta sculpture to contemporary art in every
medium.
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Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts houses a remarkable permanent collection
of more than twenty thousand works of art from almost every major world
culture. The museum’s collection of South Asian, Himalayan, and
African art is among the finest in the nation.
Example
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