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Article: Terra Grant for American Art Archives.(Terra Foundation for American Art)(Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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The Terra Foundation for American Art has given a grant of $3.6 million to the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art to support a five-year program to digitize a selection of the archives and make the material accessible to the public, free of charge, on the archives' Web site (www.aaa.si.edu). Nearly 1.6 million files will be available by the end of the project. This is the foundation's largest grant to date.
The material to be digitized includes artists' photographs, sketchbooks, diaries, business records and writings from the 18th century to today. Additional material pertaining to art galleries and organizations, collectors, art historians, ...