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Announcing: The Paintings of Paul Gauguin, 1891–1903
New Collections Added to the Digital Archives
The Wildenstein Plattner Institute (WPI) is proud to announce the long-anticipated release of three prestigious archival…
Paper Thin: Walking the Line Between Art and Ephemera – Panel at 109th CAA Conference
Discovering Wesselmann [VIDEO]
WPI Oral Histories
The WPI Oral Histories provide unprecedented firsthand accounts from art historians, archivists, gallerists, and others with…
The Prevalence of Ritual: Romare Bearden and Legacy [VIDEO]
Now Live: Explore the WPI Digital Archives
Materials from the WPI Digital Archives, from top left, clockwise: Cover of a sales Catalogue;…
Announcing: The Romare Bearden Digital Catalogue Raisonné Project
The Romare Bearden Digital Catalogue Raisonné will be a comprehensive research tool providing access to…
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…
First Glimpse Into a Historic Photo Archive
The WPI’s Photothèque Archives is a remarkable collection of over 25,000 black and white photographs…
Announcing: The Tom Wesselmann Digital Corpus
Image: Great American Nude 1, Estate of Tom Wesselmann, New York A new approach to…
In print: The Letters of Edgar Degas, edited by Theodore Reff
(Left) Marcellin Desboutin, Degas Reading a Newspaper, 1875, oil on canvas(Right) Walter Barnes, Degas at Dieppe, 1885,…
Digitization and the State-of-the-art(world) [VIDEO]
Pen to Paper in the Digital Age: Artist’s Correspondence and Writings from the Nineteenth Century [VIDEO]
The Museum Computer Network 2019
The Things of Friendship
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Nature morte au bouquet à l’éventail, 1871. Oil on canvas. The Museum of…
WPI’s Symposium ‘Reviving the Archive’ at the Museum Barberini
The Catalogue Raisonné: Archives and Documentation in the Digital Age
Théodore Duret in Japan
Edouard Manet, Portrait of Théodore Duret, 1868, oil on canvas, Paris, Musée du Petit Palais…
Claude Monet’s Encounter with the Mediterranean – Part 2
The Reception of the Riviera Paintings W891a, Portrait of the Artist in his Studio (1884),…
Claude Monet’s Encounter with the Mediterranean – Part 1
W854, Bordighera (1884), oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, IL….
Claude Monet: The Water Lily Pond
Fig. 1: Map of Giverny showing Monet’s property, Archives Départementales de l’Eure, undated. In Giverny,…
A Peculiar Still Life
Fig. 1 Galerie Barbazanges Archives Fig. 2 Bernheim-Jeune, Marc Edler, Albert André, Renoir’s Atelier. L’Atelier…