NATIONAL ACADEMY MUSEUM ADDS HIGHLIGHTS OF ITS
COLLECTION TO THE GOOGLE ART PROJECT
New York’s Oldest Museum, Academy Collection Features Iconic Names in
American Art and Architecture
NEW YORK, NY, (July 3, 2015) ─ The National Academy Museum & School has added
150 high-resolution artworks to the Google Art Project, enabling individuals across
America to access and explore a sample of its rich collection of paintings, sculptures,
new media and architectural drawings and models.
The works available through the Google Art Project are representative of the wideranging collection of the National Academy. Among the works included are paintings by
Samuel F. B. Morse and Asher B. Durand – the artists who founded the Academy in
1825 – as well as works by many of the iconic names in American art and architecture,
all of whom have been members of the Academy and who contributed to its legacy:
Cecelia Beaux, Thomas Eakins, Frank Gehry, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence, Robert
Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Wayne Thiebaud and Frank Lloyd Wright, among
many others.
The National Academy holds more than 7,000 works in its permanent collection, all
contributed to the Academy by the artists and architects who have been elected as
Academicians over the past 189 years. As such, the collection embraces works from the
pantheon of 19th and 20th century American art and architecture, as well as
contemporary masters such as Chuck Close, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Joel Shapiro.
The images of these works are of such high resolution that, coupled with a custom-built
zoom viewer, viewers are able to discover minute details of the works that might never
have seen up close before. In addition, using the Street View feature, visitors can move
about the gallery virtually on www.googleartproject.com selecting works of art that
interest them and clicking to learn more.
The Street View feature was created by a specially designed Street View trolley that
took 360-degree images of selected galleries at the Academy. The gallery interiors can
also be explored directly from within Street View in Google Maps.
Visitors to the Google Art Project can browse works by the artist’s name, the artwork,
the type of art, the museum, the country, collections and the time period. Google+ and
video hangouts are integrated on the site, allowing viewers to invite their friends to view
and discuss their favorite works in a video chat or follow a guided tour from an expert to
gain an appreciation of a particular topic or art collection.
The “My Gallery” feature allows users to save specific views of any of the artworks and
build their own personalized gallery. Comments can be added to each painting and the
whole gallery can then be shared with friends and family. It’s an ideal tool for students
or groups to work on collaborative projects or collections. In addition, a feature called
“Compare” allows you to examine two pieces of artwork side-by-side to look at how an
artist’s style evolved over time, connect trends across cultures or delve deeply into two
parts of the same work.
To date, more than 100,000 artworks are available in the Cultural Institute. Street View
images now cover 500 museums in 60 countries, with more being added all the time.
The Art Project is part of the Google Cultural Institute, which is dedicated to creating
technology that helps the cultural community to bring their art, archives, heritage sites
and other material online. The aim is to increase the range and volume of material from
the cultural world that is available for people to explore online and in doing so,
democratize access to it and preserve it for future generations
Artists Included in the National Academy Museum’s Google Art Project
Frederick Stiles Agate, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, John White Alexander, Emma Amos, Stephen Antonakos, Richard
Anuszkiewicz, Will Barnet, Cecilia Beaux, George Wesley Bellows, Frank Weston Benson, Thomas Hart Benton,
Albert Bierstadt, Isabel Bishop, Ralph Albert Blakelock, Edwin Blashfield, Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle, Ernest
Leonard Blumenschein, Robert Frederick Blum, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Benjamin Champney, William Merrit
Chase, Frederic Edwin Church, Kenyon Cox, Chuck Close, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Edwin
Walter Dickinson, Peter Paul Duggan, Asher B. Durand, Frank Duveneck, Thomas Eakins, Charles Loring Elliott,
Richard Estes, John La Farge, John Frazee,Frederick Carl Frieseke, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Daniel Garber, Sofia
Gechtoff, Frank O. Gehry,Robert Gwathmey, Lilian Westcott Hale, Abbot Handerson Thayer, Birge Harrison, William
Stanley Haseltine, Charles Webster Hawthorne, Robert Henri, Thomas Hicks, Winslow Homer, Donald Hord, Daniel
Hunyington, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Peter Hurd,George Inness, Eastman Johnson, Lester Frederick Johnson, John
Frederick Kensett, Abraham Leon Kroll, Robert Kushner, George Cochran Lambdin,Jacob Lawrence, Emanuel
Gottlieb Leutze, Evelyn Beatrice Longman, Frederick MacMonnies, Robert Mangold, Reginald Marsh, Christian Mayr,
Louis Remy Mignot, Richard Edward Miller, Edward Ludlow Mooney,Samuel F.B. Morse, Dorothy Ochtman, William
McGregor Paxton, Philip Pearlstein, Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, Howard Pyle, Ellen Emmet Rand, Charles Robert
Rauschenberg, Charles Rosen, Carl Clemens Mortiz Rungius, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Paul Starrett Sample, John
Singer Sargent, Aaron Shikler, May Stevens,James A. Suydam, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Louis Comfort
Tiffany,George Clair Tooker, Wayne Thiebaud, Walter Ufer, Elihu Vedder, Robert Remsen Vickrey,Bessie Potter
Vonnoh, Robert William Vonnoh, Bartholomew Voorsanger, John Quincy Adams Ward, Wilbert White, Idelle Weber,
Guy Carleton Wiggins, William John Whittemore, Thomas Waterman Wood, Andrew Newell Wyeth, James Browning
Wyeth, Newell Convers Wyeth.
About the National Academy
Founded in 1825, the National Academy is the only institution that integrates a museum,
art school and association of artists and architects dedicated to creating and preserving
a living history of American art and architecture. To learn more, visit
www.nationalacademy.org
About Google Inc.
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Images
Google does not own the copyright to images on the Google Art Project.
Contact:
Dewey Blanton
National Academy Museum & School
212-369-4880 x209
dblanton@nationalacademy.org