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Call For Papers: Join the WPI at the 109th CAA Annual Conference, Feb. 10-13, 2021

The WPI is pleased to announce its participation in the 109th CAA Annual Conference, taking place February 10-13, 2021 in New York. Join us for a rich discussion led by the WPI’s very own Samantha Rowe, Digital Archivist. ABSTRACT PAPER THIN: WALKING THE LINE BETWEEN ART AND EPHEMERA Photographs, handwritten notes, source materials and other […]

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First Glimpse Into a Historic Photo Archive

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The WPI’s Photothèque Archives is a remarkable collection of over 25,000 black and white photographs originally assembled by the Wildenstein Institute throughout the 20th century. These photographs were intended to facilitate staff research on a variety of art historical subjects, ranging from 13th c. religious relief sculptures to 20th c. artists such as Mikhail Larionov.

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Announcing: The Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus

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About the Digital Corpus The Wildenstein Plattner Institute (WPI) is working in close collaboration with the Estate of Tom Wesselmann on the Digital Catalogue Raisonné of the artist’s work. Prior to publication of the first installment, which will focus on Wesselmann’s celebrated Great American Nudes series, the WPI will continually update the status of their research

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In print: The Letters of Edgar Degas, edited by Theodore Reff

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The WPI is pleased to announce its latest publication: The Letters of Edgar Degas edited by Theodore Reff. This hardbound, critical edition includes transcriptions of 1,240 letters Degas wrote over the course of fifty years. Reff, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Columbia University, has spent decades sourcing, transcribing, dating, and analyzing these documents, which

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The Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné and Digital Corpus

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The WPI is pleased to announce the launch of the Tom Wesselmann Catalogue Raisonné. Working in close collaboration with the Estate of the artist, the WPI will author a dynamic online publication that will link to digitized material from the artist’s archives. In addition to the wealth of archival documentation at the Wesselmann studio, the

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New Foundation Dedicated to Art Historical Research and Digital Archiving Projects Announces First Initiatives

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Elizabeth Gorayeb Appointed Executive Director of New Institute The Wildenstein Plattner Institute (WPI), a new foundation dedicated to advancing art historical scholarship by fostering the accessibility, cataloguing, and digitization of primary sources, was publicly launched today. The WPI was cofounded by Guy Wildenstein, president of Wildenstein & Company, and Hasso Plattner, a leading entrepreneur in

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