Art Museum Image Gallery Debuts on WilsonWeb
H.W. Wilson Offers Rich Art Image Database to Replace The AMICO Library

New York, New York, June 6, 2005
H.W. Wilson today announced it will offer the Art Museum Image Gallery—a new art image database to replace The AMICO Library, which ceases publication in July. Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world, reflecting the wide coverage offered by The AMICO Library. All images are rights-cleared for educational use, so that students can download them for papers, and teachers can include them in class lectures. The new database can be searched seamlessly with other popular Wilson art resources—such as Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective—to retrieve both images and articles.

Art Museum Image Gallery features over 94,000 high-quality, high-resolution images, spanning artistic creation from 3,000 B.C. to the present, virtually mirroring the content researchers enjoyed with The AMICO Library. A description accompanies each entry, as well as curatorial text, provenance data, detail or multiple views, and for many works, related multimedia. The versatile WilsonWeb interface allows searching by a multitude of parameters beyond title of work and artist, including subject, materials and techniques, artist nationality and birthplace, owner of work, and date created, among others.

Invaluable for curricula in art history, studio art, and design, the database also enriches research in cultural studies, area studies, archaeology, classics, history, religion, literature and related subject areas.

Art Museum Image Gallery includes both fine and decorative art: painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles, costumes, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, glass, books and manuscripts, archaeological finds, and beyond. Wide-ranging coverage encompasses art from the cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas (including Native American and MesoAmerican peoples).

The database features a wealth of works by contemporary artists. Distinguished museum sources ensure an impressive selection of images.

"A resource as important as The AMICO Library shouldn't disappear without replacement," said Ron Miller, H.W. Wilson Director of Product Management. "We are glad to be able to offer most of the content from the original AMICO Library in a database that is fully searchable within the WilsonWeb system. WilsonWeb users may combine Art Museum Image Gallery with Wilson's Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective in one instant and seamless search creating an art reference resource of superior quality."

Free 30-day trial subscriptions will be available for librarians and members of the working press when the database is released on July 1, 2005.

H.W. Wilson will preview the database at ALA 2005 (June 25-28, Chicago), Booth 1201. For more information about Art Museum Image Gallery, visit http://www.hwwilson.com/databases/artmuseum.htm