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[https://www.himalayanart.org/ '''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 museums, universities and private collections throughout the world.<ref name=RubinOnline>{{cite web |title=Online Resources |website=Rubin Museum of Art |url=http://www.rubinmuseum.org/pages/load/116 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722150511/http://www.rubinmuseum.org/pages/load/116 |archivedate=July 22, 2014 }}</ref><ref>[https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/who-hijacked-himalayan-art-or-any-art-matter/ "Who hijacked Himalayan art? Or any art, for that matter?"]. ''Tricycle'', Aug 06, 2010</ref>
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'''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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Himalayan Art Resources|url=http://www.rubinmuseum.org/pages/load/116|website=http://www.rubinmuseum.org/}}</ref>


==History==
==History==
Originally conceived as a digital library known as the Tibet Art Project, the Himalayan Art Resource(HAR) website was created by The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation in 1997 with a vision of building a comprehensive education and research database of Himalayan Art<ref>{{cite web|title=Oglethorpe to Award Two Honorary Degrees During Saturday’s Commencement for 2013 Grads|url=http://source.oglethorpe.edu/tag/himalayan-art-resources/|website=http://source.oglethorpe.edu/}}</ref>. Since that time the website has grown to include more than 65,000 images from public and private collections throughout the world<ref>{{cite web|title=HAR History|url=http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=1759|website=Himalayan Art Resources}}</ref>. Since 1998, [[Jeff Watt]], the leading Himalayan and Tibetan art scholar, has been the Director and Cheif Curator for the HAR website. He was also the the founding Curator at the [[Rubin Museum of Art]] (RMA) in [[New York City]]from October 1999 to October 2007.
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.<ref name=Oglethorpe>{{cite web |title=Oglethorpe to Award Two Honorary Degrees During Saturday’s Commencement for 2013 Grads |url=http://source.oglethorpe.edu/2013/05/14/oglethorpe-to-award-two-honorary-degrees-during-saturdays-commencement-for-2013-grads// |accessdate=February 6, 2016 |website=Oglethorpe University }}</ref><ref>[https://www.lionsroar.com/rubin-foundation-awards-777000-in-grants-to-organizations-aligned-with-art-and-social-justice/ "Rubin Foundation awards $777,000 in grants to organizations aligned with art and social justice"]. ''Lion's Roar'', by Lilly Greenblatt| February 6, 2018</ref> Since 1998, [[Jeff Watt]], a Himalayan and Tibetan art scholar, has been the director and chief Curator of the HAR website.<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/spectrum/arts/himalayan-buddhism/233386.html "Himalayan Buddhism"]. ''Tribune India'', May 8, 2016,</ref><ref>[http://www.christies.com/features/Buddhist-sculpture-Collecting-guide-7782-1.aspx "Collecting Guide: Buddhist sculpture"]. ''Christie's'', access date December 3, 2016.</ref>


By 2013, the website included about 45,000 images from public and private collections;<ref name="Raj2013">{{cite book|author=Selva J. Raj|title=South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kaubzRxh-U0C&pg=PA16|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-44851-2|pages=16–}}</ref><ref name="Larsson2012">Stefan Larsson. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=sVczAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA293 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–.</ref> this number of images more than doubled by 2018, and included images from about 1000 collections and repositories.<ref>[https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/on-bells-whistles-hats-and-number-sets-an-interview-with-jeff-watt-on-buddhist-iconography-and-himalayan-art "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</ref>
The site also makes available hundreds of resources for educational and interpretation purposes. These include curriculum, essays, glossaries, and organizational outlines to help the user navigate the rich material on the site.

Scholars of Himalayan art make regular use of the web site during their research.<ref name="Kerin2009">{{cite book|author=Melissa R. Kerin|title=Artful Beneficence: Selections from the David R. Nalin Himalayan Art Collection|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rghJAQAAIAAJ|date=September 2009|publisher=Rubin Museum of Art|isbn=978-0-9772131-5-3|page=10}}</ref> The site also makes available hundreds of resources for educational and interpretation purposes.<ref>{{cite book|title=Asian Studies Newsletter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NwMLAQAAMAAJ|volume=52|year=2007|publisher=Association for Asian Studies|page=27}}</ref> These include curriculum, essays, glossaries, and organizational outlines to help users navigate the material on the site.


==References==
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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 museums, universities and private collections throughout the world.[1][2]

History

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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.[3][4] Since 1998, Jeff Watt, a Himalayan and Tibetan art scholar, has been the director and chief Curator of the HAR website.[5][6]

By 2013, the website included about 45,000 images from public and private collections;[7][8] this number of images more than doubled by 2018, and included images from about 1000 collections and repositories.[9]

Scholars of Himalayan art make regular use of the web site during their research.[10] The site also makes available hundreds of resources for educational and interpretation purposes.[11] These include curriculum, essays, glossaries, and organizational outlines to help users navigate the material on the site.

References

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  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. ^ "Oglethorpe to Award Two Honorary Degrees During Saturday's Commencement for 2013 Grads". Oglethorpe University. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  4. ^ "Rubin Foundation awards $777,000 in grants to organizations aligned with art and social justice". Lion's Roar, by Lilly Greenblatt| February 6, 2018
  5. ^ "Himalayan Buddhism". Tribune India, May 8, 2016,
  6. ^ "Collecting Guide: Buddhist sculpture". Christie's, access date December 3, 2016.
  7. ^ Selva J. Raj (2013). South Asian Religions: Tradition and Today. Routledge. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-0-415-44851-2.
  8. ^ 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–.
  9. ^ "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
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Asian Studies Newsletter. Vol. 52. Association for Asian Studies. 2007. p. 27.
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