Collaboration: Artists Rights Society and ARTstor

The Artists Rights Society (ARS) and ARTstor are pleased to announce
that they have reached an agreement under which ARTstor will
distribute to its participating institutions throughout the United
States and Canada a rich body of images of modern and contemporary art
for educational and scholarly use. Under this collaborative agreement,
ARTstor will include digital images of a significant number of
copyrighted works of art by artists and estates represented by ARS.

Theodore Feder, President of the Artists Rights Society, expressed his
enthusiasm for this collaboration. “We are very pleased to inaugurate
our collaboration and to contribute to the many authorized images
offered by ARTstor,” says Feder. James Shulman, Executive Director of
ARTstor, similarly expressed his pleasure for the relationship that
ARTstor has built with ARS. “We have been developing collections of
modern and contemporary art from ARTstor’s inception, and are
continuing to build new collections on an ongoing basis,” says
Shulman. “But we have all along felt that we need a way for artists
and estates to have a voice in the development of ARTstor, and this
agreement helps accomplish that.” Samuel Sachs II, President of the
Krasner-Pollock Foundation, also voiced his support for this
relationship. “From Ancient Chinese cave painting to Pollock and well
beyond, ARTstor is demonstrating its enormous potential to transform
the way in which art history is taught and learned,” stated Sachs.
“The agreement to enable modern and contemporary artists to be
included is a major step forward.”

Under this agreement, ARTstor expects to make available soon a
significant number of images of modern and contemporary art works by
ARS artists. ARS represents numerous artists and estates, including
(to name a few): Anni Albers, Milton Avery, Alexander Calder, Sam
Francis, Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Barnett Newman, Georgia O'Keeffe,
Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, Susan Rothenberg, Mark Rothko, Richard
Serra, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

US art museums contributing modern and contemporary art to ARTstor –
including both former museum members of the Art Museum Image
Consortium (AMICO) and other museums sharing content through ARTstor –
will also benefit directly from this agreement, which includes a
provision authorizing these museums to place images of a number of
works by ARS’ American artists on their own websites when they
contribute images of those works to ARTstor for educational and
scholarly use.

ARS is the preeminent organization for visual artists in the United
States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual property
rights interests of many visual artists and estates of visual artists
(such as painters, sculptors, photographers, architects and others).
More information about ARS can be found at www.arsny.com.