Established in 1962, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library is one of the major art history reference libraries in the country. Focusing on post-medieval art, the Clark Library’s collection is outstanding in Italian and Northern Renaissance, Baroque, and French nineteenth-century, history of photography, and contemporary art fields and is well balanced in other areas as well. The Library’s resources include approximately 250,000 books, bound periodicals, auction sales catalogues, as well as a growing collection of digital assets. The Library holds a collection of over 2,000 contemporary artists’ books, the Julius S. Held Collection of Rare Books, the Mary Ann Beinecke Collection of Decorative Arts, and the David A. Hanson Collection on the History of Photomechanical Reproduction. Of note is the Library’s Institutional Archives and the Sterling and Francine Clark Papers which include diaries, correspondence, inventories of artwork, and personal papers of the Institute’s founders.

Archive-It Partner Since: May, 2013
Organization Type: Museums & Art Libraries

Collection: Venice Biennale 2015 on the Web

This collection of blogs, social media sites, video, and organizational websites documents the international art exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia - 56th International Art Exhibition. The crawl began May 1, 2015 and continues through to the end of the exhibition in November. An initiative undertaken by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library and its partner Archive-It, the Venice Biennale web project complements the Clark’s Venice Biennale Collection of exhibition catalogues, press materials, and ephemera beginning with the 52nd Biennale in 2007.