The University of British Columbia

In addition to ARTstor, Art + Architecture + Planning has twenty-five picture collections - four British, one Canadian, seven Chinese, seven European, two general, one Jewish, two Mayan, and one Mexican. The collections vary in format from mounted glossy black and white photographs of art works to microfiche. A brief description of each collection is available from the links below.

Access to the collections is through the Picture Collection Card Catalogue located above the filing cabinets. Pictures are listed by artist, title and subject. The photographs are located in the filing cabinets, while the microfiche are located at the Koerner Library in the Journals and Microforms area where there are readers for viewing, scanning and printing.

Items in the UBC Picture File circulate for two weeks from the Art + Architecture + Planning Reference Desk. All other collections are non-circulating. Please check with a reference librarian before photocopying, as there are copyright restrictions with certain collections.

• Alinari Photo Archive
• Cahill Collection
• Carnegie Collection
• Chatsworth Collection
• Chinese Art Treasures
• Courtauld Institute Illustration Archives
• Crawford Collection
• DIAL; Decimal Index to the Art of the Low Countries
• Dulwich Collection
• Hobart Collection
• Holman Hunt Sketchbooks
• Index of Ancient Art and Architecture (microfiche)
• Index of Jewish Art: Iconographical Index of Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts

• Index Photographique de l'art en France (microfiche)
• Inigo Jones Sketchbook
• Klinck Collection
• Marburger Index : Bilddokumentation zur Kunst in Deutschland (microfiche)
• Mayan Pottery
• Mexican Architecture Collection
• Morisset Collection
• Photographic Archive from the Chinese National Palace and Central Museums, Taiwan
• Restless Landscape Collection
• Tokyo Exhibit of Chinese Painting Collection
• UBC Picture File
• University of Pennsylvania Mayan Pottery Collection

The firm of Leopoldo Alinari systematically photographed all major Italian art works in public or private collections. This was begun in 1854 and supplemented to comprise a large archive of 220,000 photographs located in Florence, Italy. UBC Library has a collection from the archives of Italian works of art, including architecture, sculpture and paintings.

179 black and white photos of little known Chinese paintings, murals and rubbings from tomb reliefs taken from slides made in 1973 in mainland China by the art historian and curator, James Cahill. Originally made for his own study, these have been distributed by the University of Michigan because of their importance to scholarship.
Online finding aid: Cahill Collection Inventory

The Carnegie Collection is a set of 2,000 black and white photographs of architecture, archaeological sites, paintings, sculpture and drawings of the history of Western art. The Collection is classified by historical period and located in numbered boxes in an oak cabinet built especially for the collection. There is an index by artist, title and subjects.

Chatsworth is the Derbyshire home of the Dukes of Devonshire. It was built between 1687and 1707 and is known throughout the world as one of the great country houses of England. The Chatsworth Collection is a collection of drawings which provides a well-balanced illustration of the art of drawing in Europe from the
Renaissance to the end of the 17th century.

The Courtauld Institute is located at the University of London and includes the photographic collections of the Conway Library. This was published in sets:

• Archive l: Cathedrals and monastic buildings in the British Isles
• Archive 2: 15th and 16th century sculpture in Italy
• Archive 3: Medieval architecture and sculpture in Europe

135 black and white photos of calligraphy and painting from this unique private collection which is known for its wide range of scrolls that once belonged to famous Chinese collectors of the past and for the inclusion of calligraphy scrolls. The collection is especially strong in early paintings.

This set of black and white illustrations of Dutch and Flemish art is from the photographic archive in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie. It is organized by subject on 14,000 cards. The cards have the artist's name, medium, dimensions and work's location. It utilizes Iconclass, but not all numbers correspond as it was begun long before. It was completed in 1982.

A collection of black and white photographs of selections from the Dulwich College Picture Gallery in London. The Gallery was built in 1811, ten years before the establishment of the National Gallery. The collection includes both familiar and less known works, mostly 17th century and of the Dutch, Flemish and French schools. Originally the works were collected for the King of Poland in the 18th century. No accompanying text.

170 Black and white photos of Chinese Ming and Qing Dynasty paintings of the Richard Bryant Hobart collection which was sold by Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. in New York in 1969.

William Holman Hunt was born in 1827and lived until 1910. He gained admission to the Royal Academy Schools and there met Millais and Rossetti. Together they founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He made several journeys to the Middle East. His works are mostly held at the Lady Lever Gallery, the Ashmolean Museum and the Walker Art Gallery in Manchester. The sketchbooks consist of 48 glossy black and white photos of sketches. No accompanying text.

This is a photographic collection of Greek and Roman classical art and architecture, with additional illustrations for Egypt and the Near East. There are approximately 95,000 images on 764 microfiche. It is arranged by types of monuments and topography.

This collection was conceived as a complement to the great Princeton Index of Christian Art. Begins with subjects and iconographic representations depicted in 9th to 16th century Hebrew manuscripts. The collection is on 6" x 8" cards with black and white reproductions accompanied by textual references for Hebrew Scriptures, Midrash and liturgical texts.

There are approximately 95,000 images on microfiche in this collection. It is organized by city, followed by the monument. It covers the 8th century to the present day, but is especially rich in medieval architecture and collections in small French museums.

Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is considered to be the most influential figure in the arts in 17th century England. His sketches for costumes and sets for masques and plays produced at the Stuart court (James I and Charles I) are part of the collection of the Duke of Devonshire.

The Inigo Jones Collection consists of 268 black and white photos from the pages of his sketchbook, arranged in the order they appear in the original.

110 hand-tinted photographs of famous Italian paintings selected mostly from galleries in Italy. The collection was given to the UBC Library in 1935 by Leonard S. Klinck, who was UBC's second president, 1919-1944.

The collection is indexed in the Picture File Catalogue by artist, title and subject.

The Marburger Index is an inventory of art in Germany - a microfiche museum without walls. It contains over 930,000 photographic reproductions of all the fine arts in Germany - architecture, painting, sculpture, decorative arts and artistic photography. The Index is an ongoing collection which will never be complete as long as art is created. It is arranged alphabetically by place name and filed in the microform cabinets.

A collection of 58 glossy photos of line drawings taken from Mayan pottery. Published by the Foundation for Latin American Anthropological Research in Saint Louis. Several decades ago the Foundation started a program of creating a photographic archive of all Mayan art. No accompanying text.

Jointly published by the National Architects College of Mexico and the Society of Mexican Architects, this collection of 324 large black and white photographs represents 4,000 years of Mexican architecture from the Archaic period (2,000 B.C-100 B.C) to 1960. The pictures were part of an exhibition in 1960 which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Mexican revolution.

A collection of 90 B&W, 11 x 14" photographs, comprising a portfolio of traditional Quebec arts and crafts: architecture (domestic, agricultural, religious); sculpture of the early 18th to late 19th C. , including works by Francois and Thomas Baillairge, Pierre Noel Lavasseur,Joseph Pepin, Leandre Parent, and others; applied arts such as ironwork, furniture, silver, tableware of the 18th & 19th C. The photographs were taken and the collection compiled by Jean-Paul Morisset. Collection is housed in Vertical File No. 6. A printed inventory is available upon request.

The Archive contains 5,500 black and white pictures representing the finest collection of Chinese art treasures in the world: 4,500 represent paintings and the remainder are bronzes, jades, lacquers, ceramics, textiles, etc. The pictures are arranged by dynasty and type according to the Chinese classification. There is considerable accompanying information and an index by artist and title and subject.

273 black and white photographs of 84 paintings with identification information taken from the scholarly exhibition of landscape painting at the University Art Museum in Berkeley.

Black and white photos of 217 Chinese paintings of the Sung and Yuan dynasties exhibited in 1962 and Ming and Ching dynasties exhibited in 1963 at the Tokyo National Museum, as well as some paintings from the permanent collection of the museum. This collection can be used in lieu of the exhibition catalogues that are out of print and difficult to locate.

A large collection of unmounted pictures of works of art (Western, Oriental and primitive) of all media. Much of this material is in colour as it is gleaned from old journals, book jackets, book blurbs etc. It is arranged by artist or subject. This is the only picture collection which circulates for home use. This collection is largely self-indexed.

These are 50 black and white photos of Mayan pottery found mostly in the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. Each example is taken from a rare exhibition catalogue published in Philadelphia in 1925. No accompanying text.