Ayres 205
898-6878
Fall & Spring Semester Hours: 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Monday - Thursday
Closed for lunch from 12:00 - 1:00
Curator: Erin Herzog
Collections
The Ira Latour Visual Resources Center (VRC) houses the slide collection of the Art and Art History Department. The VRC also holds a reference collection of non-circulating art history books, illustrated books, catalogues raisonee, livres d'artiste, current periodicals, photographs, prints, and non-print media such as CD-ROMs, videos, and DVDs. This collection is made possible due the generous endowment provided by Walter Kohn.
A catalog of the book and film collection is available online through LibraryThing. Materials MAY NOT be checked out.
Images
The center provides images to be used for research assignments, course study pages, and lectures. Four computers are available for student access along with scanning stations.
The VRC digital image collection is available through ARTstor.
All VRC materials must be used for educational purposes only.
Online Resources
- Art Opportunities
This is a listing of grants, residencies, contests, and other opportunities for art students and professionals.
- ARTstor
ARTstor is a subscription database containing more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.
- Material ConneXion
Material Connexion archive features over 5,000 cutting-edge materials in eight categories, including the largest selection of sustainable materials.
- BibliOdyssey
BibiOdyssey is a blog containing eclectic historic science and art images from rare books and prints.
- California State University IMAGE Project (World Images)
The CSU IMAGE Project includes images for the art history survey and historical images from a wide variety of fields, including political and cultural history, anthropology, biology, medicine and technology.
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
FAMSF ImageBase contains images from the permanent collections of the Legion of Honor and de Young Museums.
- Library of Congress flickr photostream
The Library of Congress photostream contains historic photograph collections.
- New York Public Library Digital Collections
The New York Public Library offers audio, video, webcasts, images, prints, photographs, poetry and fiction.
- UbuWeb: Film and Video
UbuWeb is a large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material providing access to out of print materials, sound art and video.
- Hammer Museum: Watch and Listen
The Hammer Museum offers streaming video of their exhibitions, readings, lectures and forums.
- Charlie Rose: Art and Design
Charlie Rose interview artists, architects and designers.
- VernissageTV
VernissageTV takes you to opening receptions (vernissages) of exhibitions and events. Archived footage of events is indexed by artists name.
- Oxford Art Online
Oxford Art Online is a subscription service including Grove Art, Timelines of World Art and Thematic Guides including essays and biographies.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The TOAH includes images of works of art, descriptions of work and related thematic essays in an interactive timeline and map.
- The Medieval Bestiary
The Medieval Bestiary is an interactive site with links to digital Medieval manuscripts available online.