The Artchive
FoundedLate 1990s
Founder(s)Mark Harden
URLwww.artchive.com
Image of Bride of the Wind, a 1913 painting by Oskar Kokoschka, from the Artchive.

The Artchive is a virtual art gallery website. It was established in the late 1990s by Mark Harden. He contributed to WebMuseum from 1995 before establishing the Artchive. A biography of the founder called it a "top art resource".[1] A user on Pinterest called it "such a valuable website".[2] However, the contact email does not currently work and the site is neglected and not updated.

The Artchive website displays historic artworks with a convenient viewer that allows the size of the image to be set easily as required. It provides a leading online teaching resource for art at a university level.[3]

The Artchive contains 2,300 scans of works by more than 200 artists.[4] Posters of displayed artworks are available.

It has the same name as a service of SITO.[5]

Notable works on the site include The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Mark Harden". Museums and the Web. Archives & Museum Informatics. 1999.
  2. ↑ "Artchive". Pinterest.
  3. ↑ "Mark Harden's Artchive". University of Wisconsin–Madison.
  4. ↑ "Mark Harden's Artchive". University of California Santa Barbara.
  5. ↑ "SITO-Artchive". SITO.
  6. ↑ "The Fight between Carnival and Lent". Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.


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