Online Exhibition Brochures, Catalogues, Gallery Guides and Related Materials (original) (raw)

Online Exhibition Brochures, Catalogues, Gallery Guides and Related Materials

Published by Non-Profit Institutions for Free Viewing

2018-2023 edition

(above: Lee Blair (1911-1993), Mary by the Sea, 1934, Oil on canvas, 34"x 48." The Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University. Gift of the Hilbert Collection)

Art museums and other non-profit organizations provide free downloading or online reading of hundreds of exhibition gallery room guides, brochures, catalogues and related materials containing texts by named authors. They publish on their websites artist monographs and thematic texts, sometimes accompanied by audio and video features. Examples, including early online iterations, include:

Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy presents Lorna Simpson, an exhibit held September 20, 2014 - January 4, 2015 at the Addison Gallery. Includes links to 8-page gallery guide, 70-minute video of Lorna Simpson's artist's talk held November 9, 2014, and commentary about Lorna Simpson's work with students at the Addison. Accessed January, 2016.

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum presents numerous exhibition brochures which may be found throughout its list of past exhibitions. Accessed 2014.

American Craft Council Library Digital Collections presents an Exhibition Catalog Collection with links to online catalogues containing essays. Accessed 2013.

American Folk Art Museum offers the 2009 catalogue Approaching Abstraction by Brooke Davis Anderson, 58 pages; the 2009 catalogue Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern by Stacy C. Hollander, 26 pages; the 2008 catalogue Asa Ames: Occupation Sculpturing by Stacy C. Hollander,15 pages; the 2008 catalogue _Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger_by Brooke Davis Anderson, 42 pages. Accessed 2013.

Art Institute of Chicago online Digital Publications has as of June 2023 full-text access to the museum's digital book publications including free downloads of four American art catalogs. Accessed 6/23

The Art Students League® of New Yorkoffers the exhibition catalogue for Will Barnet and the Art Students League, held October 5 - 31, 2010 at the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery. The 28-page catalogue contains an essay by Pamela N. Koob. Accessed 2015.

Baltimore Museum of Art offers the exhibition brochure for Front Room: Surreal Selves, held February 16 - June 9, 2013 at BMA, plus another brochure. Accessed 2014.

Bergstrom-Mahler Museum provides downloading of a .pdf gallery guide for All That Glitters, an exhibit held March 18 - August 8, 2010 at the museum. Accessed 2013.

Berkeley Art Museum of the University of California provides downloading of the 247 exhibition brochures including Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky. Accessed 2013.

Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery placed online in 2014 the catalog for the exhibit Embracing Nature, held September 9 through October 19, 2014 and in 2012 a thirteen page brochurefor the exhibition Henry Varnum Poor: Commemorating 125 Years. Accessed 2014.

Blanton Museum of Art provides downloading of three .pdf gallery guides for American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting, an exhibit held February 26 - May 13, 2012 at the Blanton. Accessed 2013.

Brandywine River Museum presents the catalogue from the exhibit_Reality Check: Contemporary American Trompe l'Oeil_ held September 11 through November 18, 2010. Accessed 2013.

Brauer Museum of Art placed online complete exhibit catalogs and brochures for its January - April 2016 exhibits. TFAO was unable to find a "past exhibits" section on the museum's website, so the durability of the online materials is unknown. Accessed January, 2016.

Brooklyn Museum website presents for Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection, an exhibit held March 30 - July 29, 2007, a brochure for the exhibit. Accessed May, 2014

Cape Ann Museum offers via the exhibitions page of its website, links to .pdf files for gallery guides of selected past exhibitions including To Gather Together and Keep these Bonds: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Cape Ann Museum, October 30, 2010 - May 29, 2011, with essay by Martha Oaks, Curator, 6 pages; Summer Outward Bound: The Robert L. and Elizabeth French Collection, Summer, 2010, with essay by Martha Oaks, Curator, 4 pages; Women Artists from the Cape Ann Museum. Collection: A Survey Exhibition, October 24, 2009 - January 31, 2010, with essay by Martha Oaks, Curator, 6 pages. Accessed 2013.

Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens has published online brochures and catalogs featuring works by both living artists and historic Californiaartists. Accessed 6/23*

Charles Allis Art Museum offers the gallery guide for the exhibit_The Charles Allis: 100 Years_, held February 4 - November 13, 2011. Accessed 2014.

Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art offers the gallery guide for the exhibit Paintings By Louis Comfort Tiffany and His Circle, held October 20, 2009 through July 4, 2010. Other gallery guides are available online in the past exhibitions section of the musem's website. Accessed 2013.

Chazen Museum of Art offers a 136-page online catalog for the 2018 exhibit _The Tile Club: Camaraderie and American Plein-Air Painting_which includes illustrated biographies of members. CMA says: "Tiles formed only a small part of the Club's output. Members made excursions to Long Island and up the Hudson River to sketch and paint. These trips were lively journeys, and the works completed during them document the first plein-air painting organization in the young nation. Tiles, paintings, sculptures, and sketches - many by distinguished artists working early in their careers - are showcased in this exhibition." Accessed 3/18

University of Maryland Art Gallery published online the catalog for the 2023 exhibit Christopher Bartel: The Skinwalker Ranch Portfolio Accessed 1/24

Concord Museum offers in connection with an exhibit held October 11, 2013 through March 23, 2014 titled From the Minute Man to the Lincoln Memorial: The Timeless Sculpture of Daniel Chester French, a 20-page gallery guide. Accessed August, 2014

Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design offers freely online over 25 titles highlighting the Museum's collections, published between 1978 and 1987. Accessed 2013.

CUNY Graduate Center offers Home on the Hudson: Women and Men Painting Landscapes 1825-1875. Accessed 2013.

Currier Museum offers the brochure for Cristi Rinklin: Diluvial, an installation presented June 9, 2012 - Sept. 9, 2012. Accessed August, 2014.

Dallas Museum of Art provides a section titled "Exhibition Catalogues from the Archives," which offers selected exhibition catalogues from 1903 through 1946 for free reading. Many cover Texas art history. Also, selected DMA exhibition catalogues and related exhibition material from 1903 through 1984 are available for online viewing through the Portal to Texas History website. Accessed March, 2013.

deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum provides a brochure with essay for PLATFORM 7: Tory Fair, Testing a World View (Again), an exhibit held July 19, 2011-June 5, 2012. Accessed September, 2014.

Detroit Institute of Arts provides a catalogue titled Artists Take on Detroit: Projects for the Tricentennial, for an exhibition held in 2001. The Museum also provided online special exhibition catalogues dating from 1886-1919 (Detroit Museum of Art) and 1919-1923 (Detroit Institute of Arts) from one to forty pages in length. Accessed 2013.

Frost (Patricia and Phillip) Art Museum at Florida International University offers several gallery guides in page turn format. See past exhibits for examples. Accessed 2014.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution's Museums of Asian Art provides online catalogues titled Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia and Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy. Accessed 2013.

Grace Museum provides a brochure for the exhibit Suitable Subjects, Contemporary Still Lifes, held May 21 - August 16, 2013. The museum has also posted brochures for other exhibits held in 2013-2014. Accessed December, 2014.

Guggenheim Museum in New York made available in 2012 online 65 exhibition catalogues for free reading including Joseph Cornell by Diane Waldman, 1967;Philip Guston by H. H. Arnason, 1962. The Internet Archive collaborated in the project. Accessed 2013.

Haggerty Museum of Art provides the catalog for Thenceforward, and Forever Free, held August 22 - December 22, 2012, as well as other exhibit cartalogs. Accessed 2014.

Heckscher Museum of Art providee a brochure for Exposed: Eadweard Muybridge and the Study of Motion, an exhibit held May 3, 2014 - August 3, 2014. Accessed 2015.

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art provides a gallery guide for Summer Breeze: Paintings & Drawings by Alice Dalton Brown, an exhibit held May 18, 2013 - August 18, 2013. Accessed 2015.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden provides a brochure for Salvatore Scarpitta: Traveler, an exhibit held July 17, 2014 to January 11, 2015. Accessed 2015.

Hudson River Museum provides books for online reading via Google Books, including those listed at Resource Library's sub-index page for the Museum. Accessed 2013.

Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Intuit) provides exhibit brochures including "Don't Fence Me In": The Art of Daniel Watson, held January 19 - June 23, 2007, Ken Grimes: ELUSIVE MESSAGES, held January 19 - April 27, 2007, Old World, New Country: The Art of Joseph Garlock, held October 15, 2004 - January 15, 2005, Singular Visions: Images of Art Brut from the Anthony J. Petullo Collection, held September 16 - December 31, 2005. Accessed 2015.

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art provides the 64-page exhibition catalog_The Making of David McCosh: Early Paintings, Drawings and Prints_, published in 2011. Accessed 2014.

Kennedy Museum of Artoffers an exhibit brochure for FANTASTIC! The Comic Art of Sandy Plunkett, held January 25 - June 2, 2013. Accessed 2015.

Kentucky Folk Art Center, Morehead State University offers online viewing of exhibit catalogues. Twelve catalogs dated from 2005 through 2014 were available as of April, 2016. Accessed 2016.

Knoxville Museum of Artoffers Awakening the Spirits, a catalogue for its1997 exhibit concernig Bessie Harvey. Accessed 2013.

Lafayette College published online a catalog of the mid-20th century painter Franz Kline. Accessed 6/23

Laguna Art Museum published online in 2022 A Fanciful World: Jessie Arms Botke and Striking Figures: Francis De Erdely and will publish in 2023 a catalog online for its Kleitsch monograph exhibit. Accessed 6/23*

Los Angeles Museum of Art says in its website as of 2023 it produces"a range of exhibition and collection catalogues in both print and online formats....Please note that those available on Archive.org are free of charge in standard PDF format for viewing online or printing out." Accessed 6/23

Louisiana State Museum provides the introduction and eight chapters of the book Medley of Cultures available for downloading. Accessed 2013.

(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021, photo by Mark Hazeltine)

Metropolitan Museum of Art provides online full contents of print titles which may be read online, searched, or downloaded as a ,pdf file. Its MetPublicationshas as of June 2023 has 19 catalogs posted covering 18th through 20th century American painting and sculpture. See Resource Library's sub-index page for theMuseum for a selected list of titles in .pdf format. Accessed 6/23

Michener Art Museum provides the catalogue raisonné for William T. Trego. Accessed 2013.

Museo Italo-Americano, San Francisco website contans online catalogs from prior exhibits including16-page Cuneo: A Family of Early California Artists, from a July 16 - September 27, 2009 retrospective exhibit. Accessed December, 2015.

Mobile Museum of Art provides an online catalogue from the 2012 exhibition Today's Visual Language: Southern Abstraction, a Fresh Look. Accessed 2013.

Moulton Museum published an online catalogue for its 2021 exhibition Nellie Gail Moulton, followed in 2023 by a Jeff Sewell catalog. Accessed 6/23*

Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon provides downloading of the 142-page guidebook Object Focus: The Book and the exhibition checklist with photos and texts from the publication We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. Accessed 2013.

National Gallery of Art presents The Art of Romare Bearden, regarding an exhibition held in 2003; brochure for Artistic Exchange: Europe and the Islamic World; brochure for "Deacon Peckham's Hobby Horse" from the website section Past Exhibition Resources; "Reminiscences and Reflections on Collecting" remarks by Raymond Horowitz "slightly revised and edited, are taken from a talk delivered at the conference "Expanding Horizons: American Painting 1865 - 1930," held at New York University on 25 April 1996; a "glimpse behind the scenes during the planning and construction" of the exhibition Art Nouveau, 1890-1914. Accessed 2013.

(above: Entrance, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, 2013. Photo by John Hazeltine)

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museumprovides online viewing of eight exhibition catalogues and gallery guides. Accessed 2013.

Phillips Collection presents the online catalogue Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line. Accessed 2013.

Portal to Texas History provides six catalogues and brochures for Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, TX. Accessed 2013.

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts provides Portrait/Homage/Embodiment, in connection with an exhibition held in 2007. Accessed 2013.

The Rockwell Museum provides the 56-page exhibit catalog for Touching on Water: Paintings by Thomas Paquette, held January 23 through March 29. Accessed February, 2015.

Ruddell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation provides an online catalogue for the 2008-2009 30 Americans exhibition. Accessed 2013.

Seattle Art Museum presents Online Publications including papers from the May 5, 2007 Masterpieces of Japanese Painting Symposium, a 45-page Guide to the Porcelain Room, and the 24-page brochure The American Landscapes' "Quieter Spirit": Early Paintings by Frederic Edwin Church. Accessed 2013.

Smart Museum of Art provides Adaptation: Video Installations by Ben-Ner, Herrera, Sullivan, and Sussman & The Rufus Corporation. Accessed 2013.

(above: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Photo © 2014 John Hazeltine)

Smithsonian American Art Museum provides exhibition brochure for Jean Shin: Common Threads Accessed 2013.

Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College, provides the 62-page catalog for the 2016 exhibit _William Clutz: Crossings_with essay by Shannon Egan, Director, Schmucker Art Gallery. The Foreword says: "Clutz carefully balances the pure abstraction of mid-century American painting with the reintroduction of figurative imagery. Because his works are at once abstract and representational, Clutz resists neat categorization into a cohesive art movement. Rather, his vibrant examination of line, color, and light reflects the artist's sincere commitment to his singular style." Accessed 10/16.

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art provides viewing of several exhibition catalogues, brochures and gallery guides. Accessed 2013.

Spencer Museum of Art provides viewing of an online companion catalogue to the Spencer exhibition Extra/Ordinary: Video Art from Asia(October 24, 2009 - February 14, 2010). Accessed 2013.

Stanford University published online The Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné, featuring the paintings, drawings, poetry, and ceramics of Martin Wong (1946-99). Accessed 6/23

TASJAplaced online in 2022 a catalog containing studies for tile panels depicting the journey of St. Junipero Serra to Alta California and another catalog featuring public art in San Juan Capistrano, CA.

Tate Museum provides three online research catalogues and dozens of scholarly articles by named authors in Tate Papers. As an example, Issue 6 from October 2008 includes "Edward Hopper and British Artists" by David Fraser Jenkins. Also see a Room Guide for the exhibition American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820 - 1880, held at Tate Britain 21 February -19 May 2002. Accessed 2013.

Toledo Museum of Art presents several online catalogues free of charge. An example is George Bellows and New York 1900-1930, published in conjunction with a 2013 exhibition. TMA notes that all works are from its collection. Accessed 2013.

UCLA University Research Library presents Picturing Childhood, an online version of the 1997 catalog produced to accompany an exhibition held at UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, in 1997. Accessed 2013.

Ulrich Museum of Art presents an online gallery guide for the exhibit Ronald Christ: Poetic Fictions, held September 16 - December 16, 2012. Accessed 2015.

University of Iowa Art Museum presents_UIMA Magazine_, containing articles authored by curators relating to exhibitions at the Museum. Accessed 2013.

University of New England Art Gallery published online the exhibition catalogue On Island: Women Artists of Monhegan. Accessed 2015.

Fralin Museum of Art provides freely online several exhibition catalogues. Accessed 2013.

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections presents Art Department Faculty Exhibition Catalogues held at the Elvehjem Art Center (later the Elvehjem Museum of Art, now the Chazen Museum of Art) Accessed 2013.

USC Fisher Museum of Art presents the exhibit brochure for Richard Parker: Poetic Illusions, held February 5-April 13, 2014. Accessed 2015.

William H. Van Every/Edward M. Smith Galleriesat Davidson College provides an online exhibition catalogue for RE/FORMATIONS: Disability, Women, and Sculpture. Accessed 2013.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents the exhibit brochure for James Welling: "Wyeth", an exhibit held March 24 - July 22, 2012 Accessed 2015.

Walker Art Center provides "visual essays" regarding Frank Gaard and 245 archived articles, written mostly by named authors. Accessed 2013.

Woodmere Art Museum provides the 42-page catalogue for Just In: Martha Mayer Erlebacher, an exhibit held at the museum January 11 - March 2, 2014. Accessed 2015.

Compilations of biographical sketches

Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture Project published numerous biographies of Arkansas artists by named authors. Accessed 2013.

M. Christine Schwartz Collection provides biographical sketches and brief essays researched and written by Wendy Greenhouse, PhD. Accessed 2013.

Online Nevada Encyclopedia published online numerous biographies of Nevada artists by named authors. Accessed 2013

Texas State Historical Association published online numerous biographies of Texas artists by named authors. Accessed 2013.

Cross-referencing

_Online Exhibition Brochures, Catalogues, Gallery Guides and Related Materials_are cross-referenced in TFAO's catalogue Topics in American Art, which contains links to thousands of Resource Library articles and essays by topic. Each topic also contains links to other online texts from museums and other sources, online video and audio recordings, plus references to topical videos in DVD and VHS format, paper-printed books and articles.

Contents are valuable to educators designing course content, scholars, students and librarians conducting research, plus art lovers everywhere seeking greater understanding of American art. Enjoy!

Appreciation

Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) wishes to extend appreciation to Rebecca Barham, Art, Dance and Theatre Librarian, University of North Texas; Hannah Tarver, Department Head, University of North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Unit , and Hillary Bober, Digital Archivist; Dallas Museum of Art, for recommending content for this page.

An invitation to museums

TFAO advocates for museums to permanentlymake available materials about special exhibitions on their websites. Most museum websites have a "past exhibitions" section. Often, when information about an exhibition is first posted, a permanent URL is created that is carried forward in website sections for future, current and past exhibitions. A common format is: https//museumname.org/exhibitions/name of exhibit.

A wide variety of materials are posted by museums for an individual exhibition. Contents on a page for an exhibition may include narrative paragraphs about the exhibition, photos of art objects, plus links to: a press release for the exhibition, newspaper and magazine articles, promotional PSA videos, lecture videos, gallery guides, brochures and checklists.

Once a museum has decided upon a URL format for presenting online exhibition information, it is important that the format be maintained permanently. This is to prevent dead links in articles, research papers and other materials published by outside persons and organizations.

An effect of Covid temporary museum closures in 2020-21was that scores of art museums greatly enhanced the quality and quantity of online exhibit presentations.

TFAO catalogues providing useful resources

American Representational Art links to dozens of topics in American Representational Art

Audio Online a catalogue of online streaming audio recordings

Collections of Historic American Art notable private collections

Distinguished Artists a national registry of historic artists

Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History a catalogue of articles and essays that describe the evolution of American art from the inception of the United States to WWII.

Illustrated Audio Online streaming online narrated slide shows

Articles and Essays Online substantive texts published outside of Resource Library

Videos Online a comprehensive catalogue of online full motion videos streamed free to viewers

Videos an authoritative guide to videos in VHS and DVD format

Books general reference books published on paper

Interactive media media in CD-ROM format

Magazines paper-published magazines and journals

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