Publications on Caillebotte, Pissarro, Whistler and Roussel

The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce the release of
its next three nineteenth-century digital scholarly publications:
collection catalogues on Gustave Caillebotte and Camille Pissarro,
and an exhibition catalogue on the collaborative efforts of James
McNeill Whistler and Theodore Roussel.  You can access the volumes
using the following link (in order to take advantage of the full
functionality of the catalogues, we recommend using the latest
version of Chrome, Safari, or Firefox):

Digital Catalogues at the Art Institute of Chicago

    <URL:http://www.artic.edu/research/digital-publications/online-scholarly-catalogues/?&utm_medium=listserv&utm_source=consdistlist&utm_campaign=s2015&utm_content=8-4-15>

Groundbreaking conservation and research discoveries about the
remarkable and beloved painting "Paris Street; Rainy Day" are
revealed in Caillebotte Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute
of Chicago, the third volume in the museum's digital series on the
Impressionist circle.  Among the many digital assets in the
catalogue is a video filmed on the very street that the artist
depicted; it explains how Caillebotte may have used a camera lucida
to create his preparatory sketch of the streetscape and how this
sketch was used in the creation of the painting.  Interactive and
layered high-resolution imaging, an additional five videos, and
previously unpublished technical photographs unveil extensive new
research on this and the other works in the Art Institute's
collection.  Like the other volumes in the series "Artists of the
Impressionist Circle" at the Art Institute of Chicago, the
publication features a glossary, scans of archival materials, and
biographical information about historical collectors significant to
the museum.

Authors include Art Institute of Chicago staff members Gloria Groom,
Senior Curator and David and Mary Winton Green Curator of
Nineteenth-Century European Painting and Sculpture; Nancy Ireson,
Rothman Family Associate Curator; Kelly Keegan, Assistant Paintings
Conservator; and Antoinette Owen, Senior Conservator of Prints and
Drawings.

"Pissarro Paintings and Works on Paper" at the Art Institute of
Chicago is the museum's fourth volume in its digital series on the
Impressionist circle.  It features ten paintings and seven works on
paper from across the artist's career, including--uniquely among
major museums--both a painting and one of its preparatory drawings.
The curatorial and conservation entries, which include new
high-resolution photography, draw fascinating connections between
Pissarro's life and work, and offer novel insights into his
technique, showing how he consistently pushed Impressionist
approaches in new directions.

The volume is edited by Gloria Groom and Research Associate
Genevieve Westerby.  Authors include Richard Brettell, Margaret M.
McDermott Distinguished Chair of Art and Aesthetic Studies at the
University of Texas at Dallas and Founding Director of the Edith
O'Donnell Institute of Art History in Dallas; Kelly Keegan,
Assistant Paintings Conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago; and
Kimberly Nichols, Associate Paper Conservator at the Art Institute
of Chicago.

"Whistler and Roussel: Linked Visions: accompanies a current Art
Institute exhibition of the same title that explores the artistic
collaboration between James McNeill Whistler and Theodore Roussel.
The catalogue offers a new perspective on the artists, their circle,
and resulting innovations in nineteenth-century art.  It features an
in-depth essay by independent scholar Meg Hausberg and an
introduction by Victoria Sancho-Lobis, Prince Trust Associate
Curator in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art
Institute, as well as high-resolution images of many of the works
and an illustrated checklist of all 214 objects in the exhibition.

All three volumes are free to the public.  Generous funding from the
Mellon Foundation supported the Pissarro project, and the Art
Institute's David and Mary Winton Green Nineteenth-Century Research
Fund made possible both the Pissarro and Caillebotte catalogues. The
Lunder Foundation provided research support for "Whistler and
Roussel: Linked Visions".  The catalogues were built using the
ChicagoCodeX, which is the foundation of the open-source, digital
publishing platform OSCI Toolkit

    <URL:http://oscitoolkit.com>

Upcoming digital collection catalogues--one focusing on Paul
Gauguin, the other on ancient Roman art, and both funded by the
Mellon Foundation--will be released in late 2015.

Kelly Keegan
Assistant Conservator of Paintings
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60603
desk: 312-443-3344
Exam room: 312-443-3584


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