Impressionism - Museums and some education resources

The de Young Museum in San Francisco is presenting two consecutive special exhibitions from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The first exhibition, Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay, debuts at the de Young on May 22 and runs through September 6, 2010.

The Legion of Honor is presenting a special exhibition that provides context and heightens the understanding of Birth of Impressionism. Impressionist Paris: City of Light includes over 150 prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, and illustrated books from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and several private collectors. As a printmaker I found this exhibition to be deeply engaging.

While researching websites for this list I discover that the Philadelphia Museum is presenting Late Renoir through September 6, 2010 too.

Here are a selection of online resources with a focus on museums and education materials for teachers

French museums

Musee d’Orsay

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html

Musee Marmottan Monet

http://www.marmottan.com/

Musee de l’Orangerie

http://www.musee-orangerie.fr/

Fondation Claude Monet/Giverny

http://www.fondation-monet.fr/uk/

US museums and educational resources

Art Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (ArtAccess)

http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/AA_Impressionist/index.html

Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (Art Explorer)

http://www.artic.edu/artexplorer/index.php

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

http://www.metmuseum.org/

Impressionism: Art and Modernity (online resource)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/imml/hd_imml.htm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

http://www.mfa.org/index.asp

Revolution of Impressionism (online gallery)

http://educators.mfa.org/galleries/detail/10

National Gallery of Art, Washington

http://www.nga.gov/

Picturing France (lesson plan)

http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/france/picturing_france.pdf

Philadelphia Museum of Art

http://www.philamuseum.org/

Renoir Landscapes (teacher resource materials)

http://www.philamuseum.org/booklets/2_8_19_1.html

Phillips Collection

http://www.phillipscollection.org/

Luncheon of the Boating Party (teaching kit)

http://www.phillipscollection.org/education/teaching_kits/luncheon.aspx

Barnes Foundation

http://www.barnesfoundation.org/

Expansive Impressionist collection, limited images on website

de Young: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

http://deyoung.famsf.org/

Impressionism: Painting Collected by European Museums

A resource packet for educators by The Hight Museum of Art, The Seattle Art Museum, and The Denver Art Museum

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:l0lVV_VbIp8J:www.seattleartmuseum.org/Learn/SchoolTeacher/pdf/teacherlessonpdf/Impressionism.pdf+impressionist+museums&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjd7MtdJDib46x3p64JtjUY2sj-hGBmLR886ihtXUBz64mHjKmeN0cGqELKwb9JSIjcvqjp0wkS_IiUTrWpr6UVRKobbd3sb33W2tdOvqpsKC9LRYUtKYfv4nTS2qZf8v8Ofpg4&sig=AHIEtbQcd-3H-tcDph_pAdLO5fjwaJnesQ

No More Outsourcing: Digitization Now

No More Outsourcing: Digitization Now Check out this blog for some interesting information, especially about how to create digital books from PDF files ( posted 7/29/10)

ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards

ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

A very interesting ongoing discussion

CONVERTING TIFF TO PDF

For those looking to adopt the Acrobat file type pdf PDF as their Archival or Display file type Andrew Stawowczyk Long of the National Library of Australia has recently posted the following to Imaglib listserve.

"I wrote a free image to PDF batch converter. It's a simple application but does what's intended. Have a look at http://home.netspeed.com.au

Just a word of caution - I didn't have time to test it extensively but it seems to be working quite well."

Regards
Andrew Stawowczyk Long
Strategist
Digital Preservation Standards
National Library of Australia
anlong@nla.gov.aua

He graciously gave me permission to repost it here as he would welcome feedback, including any further development one might wish for.

The use of PDF as a preservation file type (Archival) is still abit controversial, but many including Archive.org and some of the LOC's efforts are using it. It is great for Text work.