Himalayan Art Resources

The Himalayan Art Resources (HAR) website is a virtual museum of Himalayan and Tibetan art, cataloging and exhibiting images of paintings, sculptures, textiles, ritual objects, murals, and other art from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world.[1][2]

History

Himalayan Art Resources started out as a digital library known as the Tibet Art Project. The website was created with funding from the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in 1997, as an education and research database of Himalayan Art.[3][4] Since 1998, Jeff Watt, a Himalayan and Tibetan art scholar, has been the director and chief Curator of the HAR website.[5][6]

By 2013, the website included about 45,000 images from public and private collections;[7][8] this number of images more than doubled by 2018, and included images from about 1000 collections and repositories.[9]

Scholars of Himalayan art make regular use of the web site during their research.[10] The site also makes available hundreds of resources for educational and interpretation purposes.[11] These include curriculum, essays, glossaries, and organizational outlines to help users navigate the material on the site.

References

  1. ^ "Online Resources". Rubin Museum of Art. Archived from the original on July 22, 2014.
  2. ^ "Who hijacked Himalayan art? Or any art, for that matter?". Tricycle, Aug 06, 2010
  3. ^ "Oglethorpe to Award Two Honorary Degrees During Saturday's Commencement for 2013 Grads". Oglethorpe University. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  4. ^ "Rubin Foundation awards $777,000 in grants to organizations aligned with art and social justice". Lion's Roar, by Lilly Greenblatt| February 6, 2018
  5. ^ "Himalayan Buddhism". Tribune India, May 8, 2016,
  6. ^ "Collecting Guide: Buddhist sculpture". Christie's, access date December 3, 2016.
  7. ^ Selva J. Raj (2013). South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today. Routledge. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-0-415-44851-2.
  8. ^ Stefan Larsson. Crazy for Wisdom: The Making of a Mad Yogin in Fifteenth-Century Tibet. BRILL; 14 September 2012. ISBN 978-90-04-23287-7. p. 293–.
  9. ^ "On Bells, Whistles, Hats, and Number Sets: An Interview with Jeff Watt on Buddhist Iconography and Himalayan Art". By Anne Wisman, Buddhistdoor Global, 2018-03-23
  10. ^ Melissa R. Kerin (September 2009). Artful Beneficence: Selections from the David R. Nalin Himalayan Art Collection. Rubin Museum of Art. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-9772131-5-3.
  11. ^ Asian Studies Newsletter. Vol. 52. Association for Asian Studies. 2007. p. 27.