Terra Foundation Digital Publication Initiatives


Screenshot of a digital publication, showing a map and infographic.

From Kimberly Orcutt’s “Unintended Consequences: The American Art-Union and the Rise of a National Landscape School” (Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Spring 2019)

The Terra Foundation supports initiatives that advance the intersection of digital humanities and the visual arts of the United States. These projects propose creative approaches to how emerging technologies may be applied to enhance the study of American art and disseminate research worldwide. If you have a project idea or question about support, please contact us at [email protected].

The Greek Slave by Hiram Powers: A Transatlantic Object

The Greek Slave by Hiram Powers: A Transatlantic Object” is a special issue of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, published in summer 2016 and edited by Martina Droth (Yale Center for British Art) and Michael Hatt (University of Warwick).

American Art History Digitally

“American Art History Digitally” is a series of six digital art history articles on various aspects of nineteenth-century American art in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. To date, five articles have been published in the series:

Objects in Motion

“Objects in Motion” is a series of interdisciplinary articles and features on cross-cultural dialogues between Britain and the United States in British Art Studies, published jointly by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (PMC) and the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA). To date, four articles have been published in the series:

Toward a More Inclusive Digital Art History

“Toward a More Inclusive Digital Art History” is a series of three digital art history articles published between 2021–23 on underrepresented or understudied constituencies in American art in Panorama.

The first article in the series, Sierra Rooney’s “Commemoration of an Epoch: Monuments to the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States” is available online. The second article will be published in fall 2023.

Learn more in the press release on their website.

Ed Ruscha Streets of Los Angeles workshop

Support for an international workshop linked to the Ed Ruscha Streets of Los Angeles research project and online publication at the Getty Research Institute.