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Tlingit artist, leggings, ca. 1880. Image and original data from Portland Art Museum.

Jacki Apple & Martine Aballea, Artists Reading, 1977. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris, Moving image and original data provided by Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.; franklinfurnace.org

Neutelings Riedijk; Scheepvaart en Transport College, view of the northwest side of the building, 2005, Rotterdam. Image and original data provided by ART on FILE, artonfile.com

Rem D. Koolhaas, Two Libraries for Jussieu University (first floor section and condensed section), 1992. Data source: Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University and Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. © 2014 OMA AMO / Beeldrecht / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

David Wallace, Graces Can Be Grown, 2003. Exhibited at the Mattress Factory May 11 to July 15, 2003. Image and original data provided by Mattress Factory. © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VISCOPY, Australia

The Artstor Digital Library now boasts more than two million images in all subjects and periods from more than 290 collections worldwide! In 2015 we added more than 200,000 new images, as well as our first video collection of 50 groundbreaking art performances from the Franklin Furnace Archives. We also reached new agreements with museums, galleries, artists, universities, and archives to keep the Digital Library growing in scope and comprehensiveness. And we continue to add new resources and expand existing ones. Check out our full lists:

New and expanded collections released in 2015:

1. Art Gallery of Ontario
2. Art on File Collection: Mexico City and Rotterdam
3. Asia Art Archive
4. Avery/GSAPP Architectural Plans and Sections (Columbia University)
5. Condé Nast
6. Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University
7. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Collection
8. Foundation for Landscape Studies
9. Fowler Museum
10. Franklin Furnace Archives: videos
11. Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings
12. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
13. Harvard Art Museums
14. Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
15. Mauritshuis
16. The Mattress Factory
17. Thomas McGovern
18. Museum of the City of New York
19. Wangechi Mutu
20. National Gallery of Art
21. Joseph Peller
22. Renzo Piano Building Workshop
23. Howardena Pindell
24. QTVR Panoramas of World Architecture (Columbia University)
25. Rhizome
26. Rijksmuseum
27. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
28. Bob Schalkwijk
29. Seattle Art Museum
30. Smith College Museum of Art
31. Abby Williams Hill Collection (University of Puget Sound)
32. Donald Woodman
33. Worcester Art Museum

New and expanded agreements reached in 2015:

1. Pacita Abad Art Estate
2. Albright-Knox Art Gallery
3. The Bard Graduate Center
4. Cincinnati Art Museum
5. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
6. Colby College Museum of Art
7. Richard S. Ellis, Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (Bryn Mawr College)
8. Glenstone
9. William Randolph Hearst Archive (Long Island University)
10. Hofstra University Museum
11. The International Museum of Children’s Art
12. Ada Karmi-Melamede Architects
13. The Menil Collection
14. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
15. The Morgan Library & Museum
16. New-York Historical Society
17. Joseph Peller
18. The Philadelphia Museum of Art
19. Howardena Pindell
20. RISD Museum
21. Reynolda House of American Art (Wake Forest University)
22. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
23. Tufts University Art Gallery
24. UBC Museum of Anthropology and UBC Library
25. University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture
26. University of Puget Sound
27. Williams College Museum of Art

New resources added in 2015:

We’ve expanded our series of curriculum guides – collections of images based on syllabi for college courses curated by faculty members and experts around the country – with four new guides on English Literature:

1. British Romantic Poetry by Hugh Roberts, Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine
2. Gender in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature by Jennifer L. Airey, Associate Professor of English at the University of Tulsa
3. Gothic Literature, also by Jennifer L. Airey
4. The Coffeehouse: English Literature and the Culture of the Public Sphere, 1660-1740 by Misty G. Anderson, Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

We look forward to another year of growth. Thank you for being a part of it.