Collections

The Research Center for Music Iconography houses about 12,000 reproductions of artworks showing musical instruments, portraits of performers and composers, scenes of music-making, and works inspired by music.
RCMI series
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RCMI’s Picture Reproduction File, organized by the time period, medium, and artist, spanning the period from antiquity to 1900 (2000 images)
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20th-century artworks related to music (200)
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portraits of musicians and composers (500)
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images reproduced in calendars of Edition Peters & Bärenreiter (500)
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facsimiles of music autographs and title pages of music editions (350)
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images showing 18th-century ensemble performances (573)
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reproductions of 19th-20th century art, including many works by American-Indian and African American artists (960)
Reproductions of art works housed in U.S. museums
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2 images)
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The Art Institute of Chicago (11)
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Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (2)
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The Cleveland Museum of Art (50)
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The Detroit Institute of Arts (10)
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Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1)
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The Frick Collection, New York (35)
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Harvard University, Fogg Museum of Art, Cambridge (14)
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Honolulu Academy of Arts (1)
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The Huntington Library and Museum, San Marino, California (2)
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Isabella Steward Gardner Museum, Boston (9)
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formerly at the Kress Foundation (46)
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M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco (1)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (50)
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Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida (6)
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (20 paintings + 650 prints)
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (24)
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The New-York Historical Society (9)
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Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Art Museum (16)
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Philadelphia Museum of Art (23)
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Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (200 facsimiles of MSS)
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Princeton University Art Museum (2)
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The Springfield Art Museum (1)
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Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (1)
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Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (16)
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Worchester Art Museum (6)
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Yale University, Art Gallery, New Haven (9)
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Yale University, Center for British Art, New Haven (6)
Museums outside of the United States
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Musei Apostolici Vaticani (60 images)
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Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence (130 reproductions of drawings)
Martin Bernstein collection
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slides prepared by Martin Bernstein (1904-1999) for his lecturing at New York University (1633)
Mary Rasmussen collection
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slides collected by Mary Rasmussen (1904-1999) (ca. 8000)
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reproductions of various artworks (4000)
Emanuel Winternitz collections
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reproductions of 15th- to 18th-century (mostly Italian) works (1000)
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reproductions of images organized by Winternitz according to about 70 topics (600)
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Instrument Reference File
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photographs of instruments from the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (260)
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photographs of Instruments shown at the Galpin Society Exhibition, Edinburgh 1964 (34)
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photographs of instruments at the Musée des instruments de musique/Muziekinstrumentenmuseum, Bruxelles (110)
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reproductions of art-works classified by instrument (500)
Wurlitzer-Bruck collection
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19th-century French caricatures (226)
