Here is a collection of five art galleries that have placed their entire collections online for you to view. They include, The Guggenheim, The Tate, Andy Warhol, National Art Gallery London, and the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam.

 

LS Lowry, The Old House, Salford 1948, © the estate of the artist

The Tate Art Gallery - London holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day. This is a significant collection and includes several masterpieces from LS Lowry (above) to David Hockney and Francis Bacon.

With each piece of art now brilliantly archived for online viewing, this website is a must for any art lover.

All 65,000 works of art can be found on the site, each with its own information page.

Andy Warhol Self Portrait 1986 - Yellow, © Andy Warhol Museum

The Andy Warhol Museum - Pittsburgh USA   is currently featuring the Time Capsule 21 project online.

While not as good as visiting the Museum itself, it offers a unigue insight into the mind of one of the Worlds great contemporary artists, who looked at everything in his day to day life as important or unimportant, depending on your point of view.

Warhol challenged preconceived notions about the nature of art and erased traditional distinctions between fine art and popular culture.

Quote from the website:- "What you should do is get a box for a month, and drop everything in it and at the end of the month lock it up. Then date it and send it over to Jersey. You should try to keep track of it, but if you can't and you lose it, that's fine, because it's one less thing to think about, another load off your mind.. "

The Andy Warhol Museum's permanent collection is comprised of more than 4,000 works of art by Warhol including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, videotapes, and an extensive archive that consists of records, source material for works of art, and other documents of the artist's life.

Warhol continues to appear in Toffsworld because to our knowledge, no-one has replaced his message...

Interior with Mirrored Wall, 1991. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.

The Guggenheim collection online premiered in April 2001 with a selection of works of art from the New York museum's holdings. Currently representing 169 artists, the online collection encompasses both the classic and the new-from the Guggenheim's earliest work, an 1867 landscape by Camille Pissarro, through more recent acquisitions, a 1998-99 sculpture by Robert Gober.

Each work may be viewed as a small or large resolution, and is accompanied by insightful commentary. The site also includes additional contextual information, such as artist biographies, definitions of art-historical terms, concepts on art, and suggested readings, all of which form a searchable database.

For anybody who cannot make it to New York, we recommend a visit to this excellent commentary on art, and American art in particular - hence Toffsworlds choice of Roy Lichenstein as our introductory image.

Claude Monet, Houses of Parliament at Sunset, 1902, © Private Collection.

The National Art Gallery was founded in April 1824 with the acquisition of the picture collection of the banker John Julius Angerstein. The original 38 pictures were intended to form the core of a new national collection, for the enjoyment and education of all.

The National Gallery's permanent collection spans the period from about 1250 to 1900 and consists of Western European paintings. All works of art are now online with comprehensive biographies and histrorical information syrrounding the works in question.

Go and see the Monet, it's inspiring and if you can't go, go online and donate to the gallery.

Still Life with Earthenware and Bottles, 1885

The Van Gogh Museum contains the largest collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh in the world. It provides the opportunity to keep track of the artist's developments, or compare his paintings to works by other artists from the 19th century in the collection. The museum also holds an extensive offer of exhibitions on various subjects from 19th century art history.

The website displasy some, though not all of his works, with an interesting account of the rational in Van Goghs thinking while he was painting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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