•November 20, 2009 •
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I have cataloged 20 images from Master Paintings of the Italian Renaissance. An excellent source for those wishing to study contour-linear drawing!
Images clockwise from top left: Study for Adam (c.1511) by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Standing Figure of a Lady (c.1485-1490) by Domenico Ghirlandaio, Five Studies of Infants (early 1470s) by Andrea del Verrocchio, A Male Nude Seen From Behind (c.1539-1541) by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Posted in Drawing, Italian
•November 19, 2009 •
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“There are photographs that we appreciate for their beauty. And there are photographs that shake us, disquiet, and distress us so deeply that they are etched in our memories forever. This book is about those Photographs. Some of the images in this collection not only moved the public at the time of their publication – and continue to have an impact to this day – they set social changes in motion, transforming the way we live and think. (Peter Stepan, editor)”
The VRC has added 22 images from Photos that Changed the World to the Digital Image Database. These images are available to the SCAD community with your MySCAD Log-in.

Images clockwise from top left: Mary Ann Vecchio and Jeffery Miller who was Slain by the National Guard (1970) by John Paul Filo, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivering his “I Had a Dream” Speech (1963), Federal Agents Dumping Bootleg Liquor (early 1930’s), Hiroshima (1945) by George Robert Caron
Posted in Documentary, History, Photography, art libraries
•November 18, 2009 •
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The Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden released The History Book. “When you work at Moderna Museet, it can sometimes feel as though you are dealing in myths. We help to construct myths – about artists and their work, in particular – while, it is to be hoped, also deconstructing others. We put together narratives about works of art, artists, times and places, and we examine and revise them. As part of this process, myths also arise about ourselves, about what happened, who did what and why. Over the course of fifty years, a good many such stories, and in their more intense form – myths, have been created.” (Lars Nittve, Director)
The VRC has added 16 images of the museum’s acquisitions to the Digital Image Database.
Images clockwise from top left: Rodeo – Detroit (1955) by Robert Frank; Armed Robbers, Oklahoma City (1976/1986) by Larry Clark; Car Hood (1964) by Judy Chicago; Autobiography by Robert Rauschenberg
Posted in Installation, Museums and Galleries, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture
•November 17, 2009 •
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One of my major performance objectives for the year is to catalog 400 images from the Don Bluth Collection which was donated to SCAD by Don Bluth in November of 2004. The first 48 images I cataloged were from the recent exhibition at SCAD Atlanta, Behind the Cels: Selections from SCAD’s Don Bluth Collection.
Top Left: Razz a Matazz
Key Color Art for Titles, Concept for Musical Special, gouache on board, 8 1/2 x 11 inches
Top Right: The Secret of NIMH
Cel Set-up with Painted Background, acrylic on acetate/gouache on board, 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches
Bottom Left: The Secret of NIMH
Storyboard Sketch; ink, marker and paint on paper, 13 x 16 1/2 inches
Bottom Right: The Secret of NIMH
Color Model Instructions, Photocopy on paper with colored pencil and penciled instructions, 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches
Posted in Animation, Drawing, Film, Painting
•November 11, 2009 •
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News Photographer: The Best of Photojournalism 2008 has provided us with 26 documentary images available in SCAD’s Digital Image Database for our Students, Faculty and Staff.
Images clockwise from top-left: Memorial Shrine at Virginia Tech by Todd Heisler, Man Mourning in the Aftermath of the Assassination of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto by John Moore, Steven “Puppet the Psycho Dwarf” after a wrestling match by AJ Mast, and Don Carlos During the First Day of the Annual Clown Festival by Carsten Snejbjerg
Posted in Documentary, Photography, art libraries
•November 6, 2009 •
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I just finished cataloging 19 images from News Photographer: The Best of Photojournalism 2007. I will be adding 2008 next week.
Clockwise from top left: Senator Obama dancing with a Grandmother by Pete Souza, Fire fighters extracting young man’s arm from vehicle after flash flood in Texas by Jerry Larson, Sewage flowing into ocean off the coast of Florida by Rick Loomis, Helicopter drops water on the Esperanza Wildfire by Gina Ferazzi
Posted in Documentary, Photography, art libraries
•November 3, 2009 •
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For those who are not aware, the Guggenheim turned 50. In celebration of it’s anniversary the museum has published The Guggenheim: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Making of the Modern Museum.

Images clockwise from upper left: Guggenheim interior concept drawing by Frank Lloyd Wright (1942-1959), “American Invention” installation by Lothar Baumgarten (1985), Cartoon from the New Yorker by Alan Dunn (1959), initial mounting of rods to hang art in ramp gallery (1959)
Posted in Americana, Architecture, Documentary, Drawing, History, Installation, Museums and Galleries, art libraries
•November 3, 2009 •
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My current collection development goals have me scanning, editing, and cataloging images in the Documentary Photography genre. My first 19 images were from World Press Photo 05. These images are from photographers who have placed in the World Press Photo Contest of 2005. These photographers are brilliant and have a powerful eye for the human condition.

Images Clockwise from top left: Storm Chasing by Carsten Peter, Joseph Mosner: Injured Iraq War Veteran by Nina Berman, Homeless Man in Shanghai by Alessandro Digaetano, South African Aids Orphan by Brent Stirton.
Posted in Africa, Americana, Documentary, History, Photography, art libraries
•November 2, 2009 •
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So I am pleased to announce that I have completed the cataloging of 1193 images pertaining to Mesoamerica on behalf of Dr. Jane Rehl in support of her courses: Ethnographic Art, and Precolumbian Art and Architecture of Mesoamerica (ARTH 383/385).
Posted in Architecture, Ceramics, History, Mesoamerica, Native American, Painting, Sculpture, Serving Ware, Sports, Textiles