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Art history without the walls.
Ellsworth pulls public museum collections into one living map of art history. Trace how movements and artists influence each other across centuries, visualize the connections, then curate your own exhibition and see how it holds up to a panel of art critics.
Three ways in
One collection, three ways to move through it.
Browse it, watch its shape, or step inside it. Every route leads back to the same thousands of works.
Discover
Browse the collection
Movements, figures, events, and works: the full arc of art history, organized four ways.
Visualize
See the connections
Influence, timelines, themes, and color: the patterns a list can't show you.
Play
Curate and compete
Build a show from the collection, then let a panel of art critics argue about it.
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The collection
Thousands of works from 14 world-class collections.
Museum Collections
Also featuring The Dorothy & Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, 2,041 works donated to fifty U.S. institutions (2008). Data sourced from the National Gallery of Art Archives.
These marks identify the open-access collections and public APIs behind this project, shown for identification only. Ellsworth was developed using the Rijksmuseum API and others, and is independent — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by any institution shown.
“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1911
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