Corbis Images Launches Digital Fine Art Gallery In Response to Professional Demand; Company Experienced Nearly 500% Growth in Genre Sales.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 1999-- Corbis Images, the world's largest selection of photography and fine art for professional use (www.corbisimages.com), today announced the launch of its fine art gallery at www.corbisimages.com/fineart/. Featuring one of the world's largest and most comprehensive digital collections of fine art images available for licensing with 175,000 selections, the area was created in direct response to Corbis Images' customer demand of fine art. Since Q4 1998, sales of Corbis' fine art images have increased by 500 percent. Compelling in both content and form, the new fine art gallery features a large selection of the world's most important fine art images including masterpieces such as Water Lilies Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926). The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years by Claude Monet, The Birth of Venus by Botticelli and Still Life: Sunflowers, by Vincent Van Gogh. Organized by genres such as Love, Beauty, Nature, and Power, the area offers guidance for searching and retrieving fine art images using Corbis Images' proprietary online search tool. The domain also includes a free fine art screensaver, a primer on fine art copyright and monthly artist spotlights. This month, the site turns the spotlight on Italian-born painter Modigliani and celebrates the accomplishments of women artists. "It's hard to argue with the numbers," said Leslie Hughes, vice president and managing director of Corbis Images. "Customers come to Corbis Images for their fine art needs. With such an enormous increase in client demand, Corbis Images is proud to provide solid solutions for our clients to utilize fine art images in commercial projects. Whether professionals are searching for fine art, celebrity, historical, contemporary or news images, Corbis' one-stop shopping network takes the hassle out of this task." Fine Art at corbisimages.com In addition to its historical, celebrity, news and commercial imagery, the Corbis Collection includes more than 175,000 high quality fine art digital images spanning all eras and styles. The images come from a wide range of sources including the National Gallery--London, the Corcoran Gallery of Art Corcoran Gallery of Art: see under Corcoran, William Wilson. , the Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art, established in 1875, chartered in 1876. When the city of Philadelphia planned to erect a building to house the Centennial Exposition of 1876, provision was made to keep the building permanently occupied; the Pennsylvania Museum and School , the Barnes Foundation Barnes Foundation, museum in Merion, Pa. Founded in 1922, it houses the impressive art collection amassed by Albert Coombs Barnes, 1872–1951, a wealthy Philadelphia physician, patent-medicine inventor, and pharmaceutical manufacturer. and the Contemporary African Art African art, art created by the peoples south of the Sahara. The predominant art forms are masks and figures, which were generally used in religious ceremonies. Collection. Corbis has long been dedicated to digitally preserving fine art, making it available to both the general public and the creative professional via the Internet. With its recent distribution of a fine art catalog, Art Showcase, and its groundbreaking offering of fine art images for personal use, Corbis is poised to revolutionize the availability and applicability of fine art in the 21st century. About Corbis Corbis (www.corbis.com), a privately owned company, is the leading provider of visual content and services to creative professionals and consumers through innovative digital technologies. The Corbis Collection -- more than 65 million images, with more than 2.1 million available online -- is the largest image collection in the world. It contains the world's most significant photography and fine art from more than 1,500 creative sources, including Ansel Adams, the Bettmann Archive The Bettmann Archive is a collection of 11 million photographs and images, some going back to the United States Civil War and including some of the best known U.S. historic images. The Archive also includes many images from Europe and elsewhere. , UPI UPI abbr. United Press International , the National Gallery--London, and the State Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum (Russian: Государственный Эрмитаж, Gosudarstvennyj Èrmitaž , as well as leading celebrity, commercial, and news photographers. In June 1999, Corbis acquired Corbis Sygma, adding real-time news and celebrity event photography to the Corbis Collection. Corbis Images (www.corbisimages.com) -- Corbis' image-licensing division targeting creative professionals -- is the industry's first one-stop shopping experience, providing customers with visual solutions across a wide spectrum of traditionally- licensed and royalty-free imagery. Corbis is also the industry leader in creating innovative visual products for online consumers. Personal-Use Pictures, the Corbis Photographic Print and Poster Store, Corbis E-Cards, and other innovative online consumer products all showcase the Corbis Collection, making www.corbis.com The Place for Pictures on the Internet. Corbis is based in Seattle, with offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , London, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Paris, and San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . For more information about Corbis and its products and services, call 800/260-0444, 425/641-4505, fax 425/746-1618, or visit its Web site at www.corbis.com. Note to Editors: Corbis and Sygma are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Corbis Corporation or Sygma in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. |
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