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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

Posted July 5, 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 wide-ranging 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 Rydinsward 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 toexamine two pieces of artwork side-by-sideto 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 500 partners, more than 60 countries and more than 100,000 artworksare available in the Art Project. Street View images now cover x museums in x 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 Gwarthmey, 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.