SCAD Visual Resources Center

Below is a sample of recent additions to the SCAD DID acquired from Scholars Resource, including images of paintings from the collections of the Musee du Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting a Category and entering “Scholars Resource 10366″ in the Archive Source field.

above, clockwise from upper left:
John Paine. c.1786. Winthrop Chandler. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Model. 1839. Christoffer Eckersberg. Musee du Louvre, Paris
Judith with the Head of Holofernes. 1615. Carlo Saracini. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
A Small Town in the Rhine. August Schlieker. Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg

The VRC has recently swapped offices with the Technical Services department. Our office is now located at the top of the stairs on the third floor of the Jen Library, immediately on your left.

image: A Family on the Road in the Midwest, 1935. Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration (http://www.ssa.gov/history/depression.html)

A sampling of a few of over 100 digital images of African art recently purchased from Davis Art Images, including images of textiles and sculpture from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. These images can be easily located in the SCAD DID by highlighting “Africa” Period and entering “Davis 6/2009″ in the Archive Source field.

clockwise from upper left:
Head Crest. c.19th-20th C. Igbo, Nigeria. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Helmet Mask. Mende, Sierra Leone. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Chair. Late 19th C. Mum, Cameroon. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Power Figure. c.19th-20th C. Kongo, Democratic Republic of Congo. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

The VRC will be conducting a workshop for SCAD faculty on Friday, October 31, 10 a.m – 11:30 a.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of this workshop is to highlight the digital resources that are available to faculty and to demonstrate the fundamentals of using ARTstor to find and save images, to download and organize images from the SCAD Digital Image Database (DID), and how to incorporate these images using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) to create class presentations.

Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot.