Art UK is a registered charity in the United Kingdom, formerly known as the Foundation Public Catalog . It was established for the project, completed between 2003 and 2012, to acquire sufficient rights to allow the public to view images of all about 210,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the UK. Initially the paintings were made accessible through a series of affordable book catalogs, mostly by the county. Then the same images and information are placed on the website in partnership with the BBC, originally called Your Paintings , organized as part of the BBC website. Renaming in 2016 coincides with website transfers to a stand-alone site. Working by about 40,000 painters held in over 3,000 collections now on the website.
Future plans include similar projects to cover sculptures in public collections, which will begin in 2017. Starting June 2016 museums and other organizations will be able to upload their watercolor drawings, drawings and prints to the Art UK website; collections often store more of these paintings than oil paintings.
Catalogs and websites allow readers to view illustrations, usually colored, and brief descriptions of each painting in the UK national collection. This information has significant educational benefits and is a building block for future art history research. Revenue from catalog sales made by the collection is dedicated to the conservation and recovery of oil paintings in their care. Coverage includes museums and collections of national and local councils, university paintings, Church of England bishops' palaces, hospitals, property owned by the National Trust, and several other private institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge university colleges. Body collections such as the UK Art Council, British Heritage and Government Art Collection are included. But Royal Collection is not included.
Art UK receives funds from the Heritage Lottery Fund and other sources.
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Series catalog
Of the 210,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the UK, about 80% are not in public view. Many are stored in warehouses or civilian buildings without regular public access. At the same time, many of these collections have incomplete catalog records; very few have more than a fraction of their photographed paintings, and almost no collection has an extensive catalog of illustrations of oil paintings in book or online form. Since 2003, The Public Catalog Foundation has worked to improve this through a series of color catalogs. Before this is over, it is clear that a website is the best way to reach the broader public, the main objective of the project, so a combined approach is adopted.
The book series of Oil Paintings in Public Ownership is published by The PCF primarily by collection or county-by-county. Each volume brings together all the oil paintings, acrylics, and tempera in regional museum collections, along with paintings housed in civilian buildings such as town halls, libraries, universities, hospitals, and fire stations. Each county catalog contains color photos and basic information about each painting. All paintings are reproduced without regard to quality or condition.
The PCF's first catalog was published in June 2004, and the series is now finished in 85 volumes (see partial list below).
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Collaboration with the BBC
The Public Catalog Foundation works with the BBC to place all publicly owned oil paintings in the UK online. In January 2009, a partnership with the BBC was announced with the aim of putting the entire catalog of publicly owned oil paintings online in 2012. On October 4, 2012 it was announced that the project had photographed every painting intended for it and all 210,000 would be coming soon. available.
A section of the BBC website, Your Paintings , was launched in 2011. PCF completes the digitization of the entire national collection and celebrates its success in February 2013. An innovative crowdsourcing project, Your Painting Tagger , also online in 2011, to generate the metadata needed to make Your Paintings fully searchable. High-quality digital files, however, are not yet publicly available, and paintings on BBC sites can only be 'stored' as 'private collections' on the site, not downloaded.
In March 2013, the BBC revealed that a painting unknown to Anthony van Dyck had been found because of the website Your Paintings . Olivia's paintings, the wife of Endymion Porter, have been found on-line and although previously regarded in Van Dyck style, experts now agree that the painting is an unknown original. Olivia, the subject of the painting, who died in 1663, was a woman awaiting Queen Henrietta Maria. She has been married to Endymion Porter, who is Anthony van Dyck's patron. The TV Culture Show program notes that the painting has never been published before and it is the Your Paintings site that has enabled this attribution.
Art UK collaborated on the BBC Four television series' Britain's Lost Masterpiece .
Website
In 2016 Your paintings are moved to a new special website for Art UK, which in turn will feature a wider range of artworks.
Book Catalog
Revenues generated from catalog sales in participating collections are almost all used for painting restoration and educational galleries. The entire project income is used to help fund the upcoming catalog, as most of the funds are generated from personal donations.
Supervisory board
- Professor David Ekserdjian
- George Entwistle
- Charles Gregson (Chair)
- Dr Fred Hohler (founder and guardian of honor)
- Alex Morrison
- Richard Roundell
- Marc Sands
- Dr. Charles Saumarez Smith
- Graham Southern
- Alison Watt OBE
References
External links
- Official website
- Art UK artwork
- Charity Commission. Art of England, registered charity no. 1096185.
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