Enduring Legacy
This event series features three speakers whose scholarship and practice engage with Bearden’s formulation of the visual world.
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What is a catalogue raisonné and why is it useful?
Catalogue Raisonné Defined A “catalogue raisonné” is a compendium of an artist’s complete works or a defined subset of works, sometimes with additional information or commentary included in the publication. Some publications list each work with a title and a basic description of its physical properties, such as medium and dimensions. Other publications contain provenance,
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![Image: [Unidentified], Gallery & Studio (2004): 21–22., 2004; Romare Bearden Papers [qvluh9q8], The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.](https://wpi.art/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/unnamed-10-545x1024.jpg)
Verso: Archive and Catalogue Raisonné Releases, Artificial Intelligence, and Impressionism
March 2024 New in the Romare Bearden Archives “It is extremely difficult to talk of such a phenomenal person and universal artist in the past tense,” wrote Fabian A. Badejo (Tribute to Romare Bearden), yet so many did. Tributes, obituaries, clippings, condolences, and the program for Romare Bearden’s memorial at St. John the Divine are now
Women Of the Impressionist Circle
In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the art exhibition that would come to be known as the birth of the Impressionist Movement, the Wildenstein Plattner Institute is hosting a series of webinars, “Women of the Impressionist Circle,” throughout 2024.
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The Challenges of Automatic Art Captioning
A virtual presentation in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute Recorded Webinar Available Winslow Homer. Eight Bells (1886). Oil on canvas, 64.1 × 76.5 cm (25.2 in × 30.1 in). Addison Gallery of American Art. Digital libraries caption their online digital images to improve the accessibility of their resources. Although recent machine learning models do
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![Jean Puy, c. 1904–14; Ambroise Vollard Records [ie4ezro8], The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.](https://wpi.art/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Jean-Puy-1.jpeg)
The WPI Digital Archives: Art Historical Research for the Digital Future
Learn about digital archiving at the WPI.
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