Louisa Wood Ruby

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Photoarchive Centennial Project: Carrying the Library's Founding Collection Forward
As part of the preparations for its centennial celebrations in 2022, the Frick Art Reference Library is partnering with Global Art Access to digitize 100 paintings in private collections that were first captured by photographers hired by the Frick from the 1920s to the 1960s.
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ARIES: ARt Image Exploration Space
The Digital Art History Lab is proud to present ARIES, an innovative and intuitive web-based platform that allows art historians to work with digital images easily and effectively.
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Kress Foundation Grant for Image Analysis Toolkit

The Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchive recently received a $25,000 grant from the Kress Foundation to support the creation of a toolkit that will perform computer vision analysis on digitized art historical photo archives. This toolkit will be a groundbreaking application of technology that will transform the way photo archives are used.

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Art Historical Connections: The Hague and New York Meet Again
 

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Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship Part Two: Karen Bowen
Booksellers and the International Distribution of Prints from Antwerp in the Early Seventeenth Century
Karen Bowen
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Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship Part One: Antony Griffiths

The Print Collector and the Printseller
Antony Griffiths

Co-organized by the Center for the History of Collecting and The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Drawings and Prints, this lecture series was possible through the support of the IFPDA Foundation.

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Welcoming Remarks, Ian Wardropper and Louisa Wood Ruby

April 12, 2019. Ian Wardropper and Louisa Wood Ruby present opening remarks for the two-day symposium 'When Michelangelo Was Modern: The Art Market and Collecting in Italy, 1450–1650' presented at The Frick Collection by the Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library.

Searching Through Seeing: Optimizing Computer Vision Technology for the Arts

Welcome and opening remarks delivered by Stephen J. Bury, Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian, Frick Art Reference Library and Louisa Wood Ruby, Head of Research, Frick Art Reference Library. This video introduces a series of lectures from the symposium 'SEARCHING THROUGH SEEING: OPTIMIZING COMPUTER VISION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ARTS' presented by The Frick Collection and the Frick Art Reference Library on Thursday and Friday, April 12-13, 2018.

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Louisa Wood Ruby: "A Family Affair: Bruegel and Sons in America"

Louisa Wood Ruby, Head of Photoarchive Research, Frick Art Reference Library presents her lecture, “A Family Affair: Bruegel and Sons in America" on Saturday, May 14, 2016. This lecture is part of the symposium 'America and the Art of Flanders: Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Their Circles' presented by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection on Friday and Saturday, May 13-14, 2016.