• Mapping the Frick Photograph Campaigns, 1922–1967

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The Digital Art History Lab and the Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information(link is external) at Hunter College, CUNY, are collaborating on an online, interactive tool that uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technologies to document the movement of Frick Art Reference Library photographers across the United States as they recorded paintings and sculptures in private collections and little-known public collections. Several such expeditions were completed between 1922 and 1967. The resulting 35,000 negatives from these photograph campaigns, all of which have been digitized, are one of the most valuable resources in the Photoarchive, documenting many objects that either remain inaccessible to the general public or have been lost, destroyed, or altered in the intervening decades.

The first phase of the development of this tool has been completed and ten of these expeditions have been mapped. Please visit the Frick Art Reference Library’s Photoarchive webpage to access this innovative digital tool.

The Photoarchive and DAHL are grateful to the following interns for their contributions to the successful completion of the first phase of this project: Eileen Ogle; Liliana Morales; Ava Katz; and Paul Bendernagel, who designed and developed the digital map.

Contributors

Paul Bendernagel | Liliana Morales | Eileen Ogle | Ellen Prokop

Institutional Affiliation

The Frick Art Reference Library | Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information at Hunter College, CUNY

Is this project Alive?

Yes

Year: Known Start

2014

Decades

2010-2020

Software and Technologies

Carto | Leaflet | OpenStreetMap

Project Title

Mapping the Frick Photograph Campaigns, 1922–1967

Project Images

Screenshot of “Mapping the Frick Photograph Campaigns, 1922–1967”
Screenshot of “Mapping the Frick Photograph Campaigns, 1922–1967” after selecting “California 1950” as a filter.
Screenshot of “Mapping the Frick Photograph Campaigns, 1922–1967” after selecting “California 1950” and “New Orleans” as filters.
Screenshot of “Mapping the Frick Photograph Campaigns, 1922–1967” after zooming in on the New Orleans portion of the map and selecting a collection on the lower left-hand side of the map (six blue balloons are shown).
Screenshot of “Mapping the Frick Photograph Campaigns, 1922–1967,” zooming into a collection indicated on the map in New Orleans and selecting one of the blue balloons showing a work of art from that particular campaign.
Screenshot of “Mapping the Frick Photograph Campaigns, 1922–1967” PCMap-1
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