Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885-1954), naturalist, explorer, artist, and editor was born in Tai-yuan Fu, Shansi province, China, where his father served as a Baptist missionary. After a brief stay at Bristol University, England, Sowerby returned to China and began collecting specimens for the Natural History Museum in Tai-yuan Fu. In 1906, …
This collection documents the history of photomechanical printing from its development in 1826 through the perfection of three-color printing at the beginning of the twentieth century. All major intaglio, planotype, and relief printing methods are represented. The collection includes examples of virtually all categories of …
Robert Sterling Clark was a complex, enigmatic man with wide-ranging interests. Born into a life of privilege, heir to the fortune made by his grandfather’s partnership in the Singer Manufacturing Company, Sterling Clark broke with family ties to Cooperstown to travel widely and to live in Paris, New York, and Virginia. After …
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Records include historical materials such as: documents related to the Clarks’ decision to locate their collection in Williamstown; founding documents such as incorporation papers, early board minutes, and engineering studies and architectural plans for the 1955 marble building; and the …
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In 1908, thirty-one-year-old American adventurer Robert Sterling Clark organized a scientific expedition to northern China for the purpose of creating a detailed geographical survey of the area, recording daily meteorological observations, photographing the people, places, and landscapes, and collecting samples of the flora and … |
The Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art Newsletter began with its first issue in January 1976 and was edited by Frank Robinson (Director), Michael Rinehart (Assistant Director) and Dorothy Reinke (Secretary). The next newsletter was issued in the Fall 1976 as Vol. 1, No. 1 and numbering continued to Spring 1994, No. …
This ongoing collection brings together digitized versions of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute exhibition catalogs. Beginning in 1951 with a show of silver from the 16th through the 19th centuries, which took place at Williams College as the museum was under construction, the catalogs document the history of exhibitions at …
The Clark library’s rich and varied special collections contain a wealth of material that has been included in exhibitions both at the Clark and elsewhere. The present digital collection highlights items that were displayed in the Clark library, primarily from 2007 to 2009. These focused exhibitions covered a wide range of topics, such …
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute museum collections focus on European and American painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative art from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. The Clark is renowned for its French Impressionist works by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, and especially Pierre-Auguste …
This test collection of sound and video materials includes a series of talks titled, "Directors Perspective," which brought Michael Govan, Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Philippe de Montebello, former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the Clark to talk about issues facing museums in the 21st century. …
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This is an ongoing project to digitize rare materials from the library’s special collections. Works in this collection include:
John Long’s Coverled Book, 1815.
John Long’s Coverled Book is a handwritten manuscript containing diagrams and instructions for the weaving of geometric patterns into coverleds, or coverlets. The … |
The archival Photograph and Clippings Files held by the Library contain more than a million images that were used to teach and study art in the first part of the 20th century. This miscellanous collection draws on the Library files to document works of art that were destroyed as a result of war and its aftermath. In many cases, the …
This ongoing collection contains born-digital press materials issued by the Communications Department in 2004 and 2007, alerting local and national news outlets to cultural events, exhibitions, and other items of interest to the public. Some of the releases include a media reports, a list of outlets to which they were sent. Also …
This ongoing archive is comprised of preservation copies of electronic image and document files produced to accompany the Venice Biennale 2009-2011. Materials consist of press kits describing exhibitions at various national pavilions, collateral events, and Biennale related games and computer applications. Online websites, flash drives, …
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The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library’s ongoing digital collections program provides access to its unique library and archival materials for teaching, learning, and research at the Clark and worldwide. The Library contributes collaboratively to national and international digital collections initiatives that benefit the Clark and the larger research community.
The Clark’s digital collections emphasize rare and unique materials selected from the Library’s Special Collections and include materials from the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, the Artists’ Books Collection, the Study Collection of Photographs and Clippings, and the Archives. Featured materials include digitized books, finding aids, ephemera, photographs, and electronic files.
Support for the Library’s digital collections initiatives has come from the Research Libraries Group (RLG) Digital Initiatives for Science, Technology and Medicine, the Institute of Library and Museum Services (IMLS), the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
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