Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Finding digital images

 This is not so much an open-access book or journal, but could be helpful. It's from AWOL:

How to find public domain museum images

Posted: 23 Mar 2021 08:47 AM PDT

How to find public domain museum images

Open Context - The Alexandria Archive Institute

A short video guide on finding public domain museum images. You can read the blog post about this video here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/2021/03...The English transcript of the video is available here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/wp-cont... 
Read about the ethics, citation, and image licenses in our "3 Essentials in Museum Collections Research" here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/wp-cont... 
Explore our other educational resources here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/resources/ 
Find out more about the Digging Digital Museum Collections Project here: https://alexandriaarchive.org/digging... 
Museum objects in the video: Unknown Artist, "Scarab" from Lisht/Egypt. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22.1.272. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect... 
Unknown Artist, "Seated figure" from Tell Halaf/Syria. On loan from the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany. Exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the exhibit "Alien Property" by Reyyane Tabet (2020-2021), New York. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect... 
Unknown Artist, “Statue of a Victorious Youth” from Greece. Now in the Getty, 77.AB.30. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/... 
Jacob Lawrence, "Fulton and Nostrand" 1958. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.158. https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007... 
Kuznetsoff Pottery (Manufacturer), "Sugarbowl" from Russia. The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, 1988-96-3-a,b. https://www.si.edu/object/sugarbowl%3... 
Unknown Artist, "Coin" from Amathus/Cyprus. Now in the British Museum, 1929,0811.66. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect... 
Unknown Artist, “Neo-Babylonian panel with striding lion” from Babylon/Iraq. Now in the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 34.652. https://risdmuseum.org/art-design/col... Unknown Artist, “Black-Figure Lekythos: Wedding Procession with Hermes and Apollo” from Greece. Now in the Cincinnati Art Museum, 1994.293. https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/a...Thank you also to the Cincinnati Art Museum (we forgot to thank them in the video!)

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