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RELEASE: September 24, 1998
ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM
ANNOUNCES THREE NEW MEMBERS
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Museum Image Consortium announces three new members:
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Times_New_RomanThe Frick
Collection (including the Frick Art Reference Library)
New York, NY
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Congress, Washington, DC
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of American Art, New York, NY.
"We're delighted to welcome these new members into the Art Museum
Image Consortium", said Robert P. Bergman, Director of the Cleveland
Museum of American Art, and Chairman of AMICO's Membership Committee.
"Developing membership in AMICO is key to our success. The AMICO
Library draws its strength from the quality and diversity of the
collections of AMICO's members."
These prestigious institutions join the twenty-three art museums from
Canada and the USA that founded AMICO in the fall of 1997. "This is an
unprecedented collaboration among art museums," said Maxwell L.
Anderson, Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
"Working together, through the use digital technology, we're able to
provide a level of access to our collections that hasn't been available
to anyone before." Harry S. Parker, Chairman of AMICO, and Director of
the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco concurred: "It has been less
than a year since we formed AMICO. In that time, we've made tremendous
strides towards achieving our goal of creating the best source for
digital information about works of art."
AMICO is a not-for-profit consortium, dedicated to enabling educational
use of the multimedia documentation of museum collections. Its members
are together creating a digital library that documents their
collections, and making it available for educational use. Samuel Sachs,
II, the Director of The Frick Collection said, "moving within the
consortial structure enables the Frick to forge ahead on its own
projects secure in the understanding that our work will mesh with that
of other institutions." Patricia Barnett, the Andrew W. Mellon added,
"We'll be able to see much more clearly the inter-relationships between
the works of art that we hold and the text and image research
collections that document and support them.
Already, in a beta testbed, university campuses in the USA, Canada and
The Netherlands are using the AMICO Library. Almost 20,000 works from
22 AMICO Members are being made available by the Research Libraries
Group (RLG) to 18 select university campuses; on each campus, teams of
faculty, librarians and students are engaging in research about the
changing nature of art and image collections in the digital age.
Musing on the impact of the beta AMICO Library, Jeffery Howe of the
Boston College Fine Arts Department, said "This resource is going to
change our perspective on the practice of teaching art history, and
although I can't foresee all the effects, it will be interesting to see
how it affects us during the coming year. Š the selection of images and
artists is extensive and well chosen, and with enough unfamiliar works
to keep me browsing for hours at a time. I can foresee this collection
serving my students well for paper topics and personal enrichment as
well as giving them the chance to study the required material."
Background information about the AMICO Consortium (including copies of
its agreements, technical specifications), sample AMICO Library
records, and a catalog of thumbnail images of all the works in the
testbed Library, can be found on the AMICO web site at
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
3. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
4. Asia Society Gallery, New York, NY
5. Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
6. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
7. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA
8. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
9. The Frick Collection (including the Frick Art Reference Library),
NY
10. George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
11. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
12. The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
13. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
14. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
15. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
16. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
17. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Quebec
18. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec
19. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
20. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
21. National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
22. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
23. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
24. San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
25. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
26. Whitney Museum of American Art
Membership in AMICO is open to institutions with collections of art.
Please see
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for full details.
The AMICO Library is available through the Research Libraries Group
(RLG). If you are a not-for-profit interested in distributing the AMICO
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further information about the Art Museum Image Consortium, please
contact:
Jennifer Trant David Bearman
Executive Director Director, Strategy and Research
Email:
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Art Museum Image Consortium
2008 Murray Ave, Suite D
Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA
Phone: 412 422 8533
Fax: 412 422 8594
J. Trant [log in to unmask]
Partner & Principal Consultant
Archives & Museum Informatics
2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com
Pittsburgh, PA 15217