Resources

The art department's Visual Resources Collection covers the history of art and architecture from prehistory to the present. Located with the History of Art and Architecture and Studio Art programs in the Christian A. Johnson Memorial building, the Visual Resources Collection holds a over 160,000 slides and has six light tables for faculty, staff, and student use. Please see the Visual Resources web site for information about lending policies and collection holdings.

Middlebury College subscribes to ARTstor, an online archive of hundreds of thousands of high quality digital images covering ancient to contemporary art from around the world.  The ARTstor archive currently includes: The Art History Survey Collection, The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection, The Huntington Collection of Asian Art, The Illustrated Bartsch, The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, the MoMA Architecture and Design Collection, and a general image gallery of world visual art and culture.  ARTstor also contains tools that allow you to save images for online and offline study and presentations, and download and print reference images for student presentations and papers. The entire archive can be found at http://www.artstor.org.

The Museum's collection is diverse and broad in scope, with works ranging from ancient European, Near Eastern, and Asian art to contemporary paintings, prints, sculpture, and photography. Works on paper, notably contemporary photographs, are a primary focus. Among the 1,500 examples are works by Rembrandt, Daumier, Picasso, Dali, Miro, de Kooning, Man Ray, Southworth and Hawes, Warhol, Rauschenberg and many others.

European and American paintings from the 17th through 19th centuries are another strength of the collection. Highlights include Dutch and Flemish works by Jan Coelenbier and Govaert Flink, and French and American paintings by Bougereau, Rousseau, Jasper Cropsey, Frederic Church, and John F. Kensett. Jules Dalou, Medardo Rosso, Hiram Powers, and Frederick Remington are but a few artists respresented among the Museum's nearly 200 primarily 19th century sculptures.

Enriching the collection is a small but choice selection of Asian, Near-Eastern, and ancient objects. Features include a 9th century BCE Assyrian relief, red and black-figure Greek vases, Roman marble sculpture, a 26th dynasty Egyptian sarcophagus, Chinese ceramics, and Japanese woodcut prints.

The museum offers five student internships during the academic year and three during the summer.  In addition, the Museum Assistants Program trains student docents to lead tours for local K-12 school groups. For more information about the Museum and its programs, please visit the Museum's web site.