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New Website Confirms the Sitters in Hundreds of 19th-Century Silhouettes
Earlier this week the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery launched William Bache’s Silhouettes Album, a web platform made possible through our Paper Project Initiative. The site features hi-res images and fascinating new research discoveries for over 1,800 paper
silhouettes cut by hand between 1804–1812 by Anglo-American artist William Bache. Portraits range from likenesses of famous Federal-era individuals such as Thomas Jefferson and Martha Washington to everyday people such as traveling entertainers, tavern keepers, and military members. For people interested in early United States and Caribbean genealogy, this new resource adds a plethora of data points—names, dates, locations, portraits—to the web, making ancestral names easily findable. Digitization also allows safe and expanded access to the album, whose fragile and arsenic-laced pages posed serious challenges to hands-on study and public display.
See the silhouettes
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Top: Portraits of unidentified New Orleans subjects, from the Ledger book of William Bache, black paper coated silhouettes mounted on paper, c. 1803-1812. Photo: National Portrait Gallery (NPG), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA; partial gift of Sarah Bache Bloise. Above: A museum specialist in protective gear at NPG helps with the digitization of the album, which contains arsenic-laced pages. Photo: Kimberly A. Harmon, CIH, Industrial Hygienist, Office of Safety, Health, and Environmental Management, Smithsonian Institution
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Getty and Other Funders Award $5 Million for Latinx Art in Museums
We joined a trio of national arts funders—the Mellon, Ford, and Terra Foundations—to announce Advancing Latinx Art in Museums (ALAM), a $5 million collaborative initiative to create and support curatorial positions dedicated to Latinx art. ALAM is designed to address the underrepresentation of Latinx art in the nation’s museum collections, exhibitions, scholarship, and programming. The initiative is funding dedicated curators at 10 diverse organizations in the United States and Puerto Rico. For Getty, ALAM also builds on the last Pacific Standard Time (PST: LA/LA) in nurturing
emerging Latinx curators.
Learn about the 10 recipients
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Installation view of Patrick Martinez: America is for Dreamers, a 2017 exhibition at VPAM curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas with Joseph Valencia. VPAM is one of the ALAM grant recipients. Courtesy of VPAM and Charlie James Gallery. Artwork © Patrick Martinez. Photo: Monica Orozco
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ACLS and Getty Announce the 2023 Postdoctoral Fellows in the History of Art
For the sixth year in a row, we have partnered with the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to award 10 recent PhDs with year-long, non-residential fellowships in art history. These fellowships support scholars whose research will make substantial and original contributions to the field. From examining the role of painted vases in the religious experiences of ancient Greeks to assessing the expansion of missionaries in Polynesia at the end of the 18th century, this year’s fellows will apply diverse, interdisciplinary approaches to projects that intersect with religious studies, cultural heritage studies, material sciences history, and environmental justice.
Meet the fellows
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This 16th-century "Chandayan" manuscript was split between India and Pakistan during the 1947 partition and is now scattered across three museums. It serves as a key object in the research of 2023 Getty/ACLS Fellow Aparna Kumar. Photo: Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, K-7-30-H
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Time to Apply for Getty Marrow Internships Across LA
Our Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program is currently welcoming applications from college students interested in arts careers. Designed for students from cultural backgrounds typically underrepresented in museum professions, these paid 10-week summer internships are located at over 70 museums and arts organizations across Los Angeles, including LACMA, The Broad, the Huntington, and many more. Internship areas range from curatorial, communications, and education to conservation, research, and digital technology. Positions need to be filled by May 1, so don’t delay!
Learn more about the positions
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2022 Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern Joshua Velasquez at the Museum of Neon Art. Photo: J. Paul Getty Trust
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