ARTstor is digitizing and will distribute more than 100,000 images from Larry Qualls' unique archive of contemporary art images. For nearly three decades, Larry Qualls has been systematically documenting contemporary art exhibitions at galleries and other exhibition spaces throughout New York City and elsewhere. His slides have been and remain an indispensable source — indeed virtually the only reliable source — of contemporary art images for art historians teaching modern and contemporary art. The archive represents an encyclopedic overview of New York City contemporary art exhibitions in the last quarter of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, documenting prominent, emerging, and aspiring artists — the entire rich fabric of the contemporary art world.
Images include work by Richard Artschwager, Cecily Brown, Gregory Crewdson, John Currin, Mark Di Suvero, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston, Tim Hawkinson, David Hockney, Agnes Martin, Claes Oldenburg, Tony Oursler, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Serra, William Wegman, Rachel Whiteread, and Andrea Zittel
