New: Modern and Contemporary American Art from Art Resource
Discover a vibrant collection of over 750 Art Resource images on Artstor featuring works by renowned artists from 1910 to 2004, including Kubota, Krasner, Lawrence, and more.
Blog Tag: Artstor on JSTOR
Preserving Memories:
The Intersection of Family, Personal Archives, and Digital Libraries
Growing up in Miami, Florida, surrounded by Caribbean cultures across the diaspora, I developed a strong sense of identity as a proud Caribbean creative, a Belizean Cuban American designer. My intersectionalities have significantly influenced my creativity and the stories I choose to tell through my work as I delve into the importance of preserving family memories, the power of personal archives, and the transformative role of working at ITHAKA/JSTOR.
There’s much more to Artstor than art
Artstor is not just for art! Yes, this extensive resource includes more than three quarters of a million images of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures, but that’s still less than half of the visual content available in the collections. What else is there, you ask?
New on Artstor: 5,000 images of recent events from Magnum Photos
Artstor has released 5,000 new images from Magnum Photos on the JSTOR platform, bringing the collection to more than 136,000 items. Our first JSTOR-only licensed image launch features photojournalistic coverage of momentous geopolitical events from 2021 and 2022, including global protests, the lives of political and economic refugees, the devastation of climate change, and much […]
Our awe-inspiring earth:
26 open collections on JSTOR
Happy Earth Day! We’ve gathered 26 open collections on JSTOR that feature breathtaking documentation of our planet and its creatures by scientists, scholars, and artists across many eras, all free for everyone to enjoy. Microcosms: Sacred Plants of the Americas Confocal microscopy is a specialized optical imaging technique that provides contact-free, non-destructive measurements of three-dimensional […]
5 open collections devoted to the art of women botanists
To celebrate this year’s Earth Day, we’re sharing five openly accessible collections on JSTOR that feature the work of important women botanists and botanical artists. You might wonder, considering how difficult it was for women to be allowed into the sciences, how did these women achieve so much? As Matthew Willis writes in JSTOR Daily, […]
Earth Day: For the birds
Louis Agassiz Fuertes, bird portraitist April 22 marks the 53rd anniversary of Earth Day, the birth of the modern environmental movement. This year we honor the day and the intent with a tribute to the bird portraitist Louis Agassiz Fuertes, born in 1874, nearly 100 years prior to Earth Day, in Ithaca, New York. The […]
21 open collections for Women’s History Month
In the United States March is Women’s History Month, a time to remember and celebrate women’s contributions to history, culture, and society. And thanks to our contributing partners, JSTOR has an abundance of women-focused primary source collections that are free for everyone to access and use. Last year we compiled a selection of Artstor and […]
Women behind the lens:
photographers in the field
“It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument. ” – Eve Arnold In honor of Women’s History Month we are celebrating the brave sisterhood that influenced the early years of photojournalism, and its successors who have shaped the fields of social and environmental documentary photography. The journey begins in the mid-nineteenth century […]
Drawing outside the lines:
Black self-taught artists
“Pictures just come to my mind, and I tell my heart to go ahead” – Horace Pippin1 We have gathered a selection of the works of African American self-taught artists to honor Black History Month. Through time, the output of Black creators in America has been labeled “primitive,” “naive,” “folk art,” “self-taught,” and more recently, […]