Resource Library: Submitting materials -- The big picture

Resource Library: Submitting Materials

The big picture

(above: Carl McCoy, Cherokee Reservation, North Carolina, Wood Carving of a Bull, National Archives and Records Administration, Department of the Interior, Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Cherokee Field Office, Cherokee, North Carolina. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) publishes through its online publication Resource Library in-depth texts and images mostly relating to American representational art exhibitions -- especially materials unavailable elsewhere on the Web. Visitors to institutions, curators, educators, scholars, students and others find Resource Library's comprehensive materials of value. These is no charge to access published materials.

Editor's notes for articles ofen contain references and links to topical information from previously published articles and essays, books, journals and magazines, online videos, DVD videos, online audio, illustrated audio, and other information from TFAO's Topics in American Art and America's Distinguished Artists catalogs. For each article there is also a link to a TFAO page dedicated to its institutional source. That page contains information about the source plus a listing of all articles published based on materials provided by it.

"Editor's notes for articles and essays often contain links to Topics in American Art pages listing previously published articles and essays within the topic, plus references to Online Exhibition Catalogues, Brochures, Gallery Guides and Related Materials, Online Video and Audio catalogs, plus links to catalogues of insightful paper printed books, journals and magazines, DVD videos, and other information. For each text there is also a link to a page dedicated to its institutional or private source. The Resource Library home page also provides links to the Author Study and Index, which contains a listing of authors of all of its essays, and sources of texts.

NOTE: Resource Library is not at this time seeking or accepting submission of materials from nonprofit institutions for online publication.

(above: Hermon Atkins MacNeil (American, 1866-1947). The Sun Vow, 1899, cast 1919. Bronze, 72 x 32 1/2 x 54 inches. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1919 (19.126). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

The following information is provided only to acquaint others with previous policy and procedures.

Articles and essays from named authors

TFAO offers a complimentary online publishing service to copyright holders of texts previously printed on paper. TFAO also welcomes articles and essays -- not previously published on paper or online -- for first publication in Resource Library. TFAO does not charge copyright holders to publish texts and offers the texts for online reading free of charge. The texts may be "in copyright" or with expired copyrights and may be "in print" or out-of-print. For a listing of published authors, please see the Author Study and Index.

An example of an essay from a museum, in this case accompanied by an online copy of the catalogue containing it, is Rediscovering Nina Belle Ward; essay by Karla J. Niehus (6/11/15).

See pages on scholarly texts from institutions and scholarly text from private sources to discover benefits to both the public and sources of content.

Publicity, informational and educational articles

Resource Library publishes online publicity, informational and educational materials including texts and images from institutional sources.

An example of an article combined with a related essay is Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity (7/5/08) accompanied by "Miss O'Keeffe" - Photography and Fame; essay by Susan Danly (7/5/08). More examples of articles and essays are available at the Chronology of Articles of Essays.

Other information

All Resource Library texts and images are published online -- without charge to the public -- on a permanent basis, subject to Resource Library's policy on errors and omissions.

See How Resource Library differs from paper-printed art publications for information on deadlines and time between submission of materials and date of publication.

TFAO does not pay third parties for the use of materials published in 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.