Himalayan Art Resources

Himalayan Art Resources (HAR) website is a "virtual museum" of Himalayan and Tibetan art, cataloging and exhibiting images of art (painting, sculpture, textiles, ritual objects, murals, etc.) from museum, university and private collections throughout the world.[1][2] The website is hosted at the Rubin Museum of Art.[3]

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.[4][5] Since 1998, Jeff Watt, a Himalayan and Tibetan art scholar, has been the director and chief Curator of the HAR website.[6][7]

By 2013 the website included about than 45,000 images from public and private collections;[8][9] this number more than doubled by 2018, and included images from about 1000 collections and repositories.[10]

Scholars of Himalayan art make regular use of the web site during their research.[11] The site also makes available hundreds of resources for educational and interpretation purposes.[12] These include curriculum, essays, glossaries, and organizational outlines to help the user 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. "Tibetan Cultural Resources". The Conservancy for Tibetan Art & Culture.
  4. "Oglethorpe to Award Two Honorary Degrees During Saturday's Commencement for 2013 Grads". Oglethorpe University. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  5. "Rubin Foundation awards $777,000 in grants to organizations aligned with art and social justice". Lion's Roar, by Lilly Greenblatt| February 6, 2018
  6. "Himalayan Buddhism". Tribune India, May 8, 2016,
  7. "Collecting Guide: Buddhist sculpture". Christie's, access date December 3, 2016.
  8. Selva J. Raj (2013). South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today. Routledge. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-0-415-44851-2.
  9. 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–.
  10. "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
  11. 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.
  12. Asian Studies Newsletter. Vol. 52. Association for Asian Studies. 2007. p. 27.
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