Hi Everyone, the Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce the release of its next three nineteenth-century digital scholarly publications: collection catalogues on Gustave Caillebotte and Camille Pissarro, and an exhibition catalogue on the collaborative efforts of James McNeill Whistler and Theodore Roussel. You can access the volumes using the following link (in order to take advantage of the full functionality of the catalogues, we recommend using the latest version of Chrome, Safari, or Firefox):
*Digital Catalogues at the Art Institute of Chicago <http://www.artic.edu/research/digital-publications/online-scholarly-catalogues/?&utm_medium=listserv&utm_source=mcn-l&utm_campaign=s2015&utm_content=8-4-15>* Groundbreaking conservation and research discoveries about the remarkable and beloved painting Paris Street; Rainy Day are revealed in Caillebotte Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, the third volume in the museum’s digital series on the Impressionist circle. Among the many digital assets in the catalogue is a video filmed on the very street that the artist depicted; it explains how Caillebotte may have used a camera lucida to create his preparatory sketch of the streetscape and how this sketch was used in the creation of the painting. Interactive and layered high-resolution imaging, an additional five videos, and previously unpublished technical photographs unveil extensive new research on this and the other works in the Art Institute’s collection. Like the other volumes in the series Artists of the Impressionist Circle at the Art Institute of Chicago, the publication features a glossary, scans of archival materials, and biographical information about historical collectors significant to the museum. Authors include Art Institute of Chicago staff members Gloria Groom, Senior Curator and David and Mary Winton Green Curator of Nineteenth-Century European Painting and Sculpture; Nancy Ireson, Rothman Family Associate Curator; Kelly Keegan, Assistant Paintings Conservator; and Antoinette Owen, Senior Conservator of Prints and Drawings. Pissarro Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago is the museum’s fourth volume in its digital series on the Impressionist circle. It features ten paintings and seven works on paper from across the artist’s career, including—uniquely among major museums—both a painting and one of its preparatory drawings. The curatorial and conservation entries, which include new high-resolution photography, draw fascinating connections between Pissarro’s life and work, and offer novel insights into his technique, showing how he consistently pushed Impressionist approaches in new directions. The volume is edited by Gloria Groom and Research Associate Genevieve Westerby. Authors include Richard Brettell, Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas and Founding Director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History in Dallas; Kelly Keegan, Assistant Paintings Conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago; and Kimberly Nichols, Associate Paper Conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions accompanies a current Art Institute exhibition of the same title that explores the artistic collaboration between James McNeill Whistler and Theodore Roussel. The catalogue offers a new perspective on the artists, their circle, and resulting innovations in nineteenth-century art. It features an in-depth essay by independent scholar Meg Hausberg and an introduction by Victoria Sancho-Lobis, Prince Trust Associate Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute, as well as high-resolution images of many of the works and an illustrated checklist of all 214 objects in the exhibition. All three volumes are free to the public. Generous funding from the Mellon Foundation supported the Pissarro project, and the Art Institute’s David and Mary Winton Green Nineteenth-Century Research Fund made possible both the Pissarro and Caillebotte catalogues. The Lunder Foundation provided research support for Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions. The catalogues were builtusing the OSCI Toolkit (oscitoolkit.com), an open-source, digital publishing platform. Find the code for the customized AIC OSCI Toolkit here <https://github.com/aic-collections>https://github.com/aic-collections under the OSCI-Toolkit, OSCI-Toolkit-Frontend, and ChicagoCodeX repositories. Upcoming digital collection catalogues—one focusing on Paul Gauguin, the other on ancient Roman art, and both funded by the Mellon Foundation—will be released in late 2015. Thanks! -- Tina Shah Senior Web Applications Developer The Art Institute of Chicago [email protected] 312-499-4027
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