Not the End of the Story: Forgotten Histories from the WPI Digital Archives

On October 8, 2025, Samantha Deutch, Digital Art History Lead at the Frick Art Research Library, hosted a virtual lunchtime talk with Elizabeth Gorayeb, Executive Director of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, on the WPI’s online databases and rich archival holdings.

Recently, the WPI’s digital archives helped uncover Harlem Renaissance painter Romare Bearden’s portrait of sculptor Edmonia Lewis, previously unknown to scholars. Gorayeb explores what other treasures these archives may hold, and what new avenues of exploration they offer for the study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and the history of collecting.