America's Distinguished Artist relationship with Resource Library

America's Distinguished Artists

a national registry of historic artists

(above: Lorado Taft, Fountain of Time, 1922, concrete, 20 x 120 feet, Washington Park in the Midway Plaisance, Chicago, IL. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

America's Distinguished Artists relationship with Resource Library

Resource Library is a publication of Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO). Resource Library contains biographical articles and essays by acclaimed authors plus other biographical texts and related images provided mainly by nonprofit art museums, galleries and art centers and academies, associations, ateliers and societies.

Since 2001, when an article is published on an artist, Resource Library lists at the end of the article links to its previously published articles on the artist. America's Distinguished Artists, in turn, updates its link for the artist to that most recently published Resource Library article.

Institutions often send to Resource Library much more information than usually sent to typical media organizations. They may send new or previously published essays, blog texts, magazine articles, gallery guide texts, wall panel and labels texts, audio tour scripts and checklists. Materials relating to exhibitions published in Resource Library often include elements infrequently published online or on paper. Resource Library does not inject its own critique or opinions into published texts.

Texts and images from institutions are usually sent to Resource Library by museum staff members including curators, executive directors and media relations personnel. Certain texts not attributed to an author -- such as gallery guide texts, wall panel and labels texts, audio tour scripts and checklists -- are usually written by curators. News releases are usually written by museums' media relations staff, who gather information form curators before composing the releases. Less frequently, news releases are written by media relations firms retained by the nonprofits.

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About Resource Library

Resource Library is a free online publication of nonprofit Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO). Since 1997, Resource Library and its predecessor Resource Library Magazine have cumulatively published online 1,300+ articles and essays written by hundreds of identified authors, thousands of other texts not attributable to named authors, plus 24,000+ images, all providing educational and informational content related to American representational art. Texts and related images are provided almost exclusively by nonprofit art museum, gallery and art center sources.

All published materials provide educational and informational content to students, scholars, teachers and others. Most published materials relate to exhibitions. Materials may include whole exhibition gallery guides, brochures or catalogues or texts from them, perviously published magazine or journal articles, wall panels and object labels, audio tour scripts, play scripts, interviews, blogs, checklists and news releases, plus related images.

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(left: JP Hazeltine, founding editor, Resource Library)

Links to sources of information outside our website are provided only as referrals for your further consideration. Please use due diligence in judging the quality of information contained in these and all other websites. Information from linked sources may be inaccurate or out of date. We neither recommend or endorses these referenced organizations. Although we include links to other websites, we take no responsibility for the content or information contained on other sites, nor exert any editorial or other control over them. For more information on evaluating web pages see our General Resources section in Online Resources for Collectors and Students of Art History.

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