1. Western European Art Foundations
and Publishing
Lindsay M. King and Russell T. Clement,
Northwestern University Library
March 26, 2011
Art Libraries Society of North America /
Visual Resources Association
2. What do art foundations do?
Collections
Exhibitions
Public programs
Research support
Scholarly publications
3. What do art foundations publish?
Exhibition catalogues
Collection guides
Catalogues raisonnés
Bibliographies
Editions of archival correspondence, etc.
Publications of private art foundations often
represent excellent value for their cost.
7. Fondation d’art contemporain Salomon
Alex, France
(Photograph: Fondation Salomon,
used under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license)
8. Fondation Maeght
Saint-Paul de Vence, France
(Photograph: Modulor,
used under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license)
9. Fondation Beyeler
Riehen, Switzerland
(Photograph: Tobias Helfrich, 2004,
used under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license)
10. Western European Art Foundations
and Publishing
Lindsay M. King and Russell T. Clement,
The Journal of Academic Librarianship,
Volume 37, Number 1 (January 2011), pages 5-8
plus online supplement
Contact us at: L-King@northwestern.edu or R-
Clement@northwestern.edu