Worcester Art Museum

The Worcester Art Museum will create digital, visual, and descriptive records of 800 American and European paintings that are currently off-view in its storage areas in order to make high-resolution digital images easily accessible to a worldwide audience; develop a foundation of high-priority electronic metadata to share globally through proprietary and public websites; and enhance the museum’s ability to provide timely and comprehensive responses to local, national, and international inquiries for educational and professional research and support. Included will be major works by American artists such as Cassatt, Copley, Hunt, LaFarge, Sargent; and Stuart, as well as Europeans Boucher, Boudin, Courbet, Delacroix, Giordano, Hogarth, Pissarro, and Renoir. The project will ensure that paintings normally off-view will be made accessible, and for the first time in its history, the museum will be able to make a complete presentation of these holdings available to scholars, students, and the wider public.