Photoarchive Centennial Project: Carrying the Library's Founding Collection Forward
January 15, 2021
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January 15, 2021
April 27, 2020
July 15, 2014
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.
November 1, 2013
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.
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.
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.
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.
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