The Permissions Office of the Department
of Imaging Services was founded in 1959. For 43 years, this office
was responsible for the dissemination and licensing of images of
the works of art in the Museum’s collections, installation
views of its exhibitions, and other archival material, for both
study and publication. The Department of Imaging Services (originally
“Rights and Reproductions”) has set standards for the
museum field in both licensing art for reproduction, and in imaging
technology from black-and-white negatives and color transparencies
and separations to its current, entirely digital workflow.
In
order to more effectively service its clientele and market its images,
The Museum of Modern Art has entrusted the licensing of images of
works of art in its collections to Scala Archives of Florence, Italy.
A world leader in the handling and marketing of color images related
to art and culture, the Scala Picture Library contains some 80,000
works of art from renowned museums around the world. Scala has offices
in Florence, London, New York, and Tokyo. Scala and its New York
representative, Art Resource, will provide high-resolution digital
image files provided to them directly by the Museum’s Imaging
Studios.
All requests to reproduce works of art from MoMA's
collection within North America (Canada, U.S., Mexico) should be
addressed directly to Art Resource, Scala’s New York representative,
at 536 Broadway, New York, New York 10012. Telephone (212) 505-8700;
fax (212) 505-2053, requests@artres.com,
www.artres.com.
Requests from all other
geographical locations should be addressed directly to Scala Group
S.p.A., 62, via Chiantigiana, 50011 Antella/Firenze, Italy. Telephone
39 055 6233 200; fax: 39 055 641124, archivio@scalagroup.com,
www.scalarchives.it.
Requests for permission to reprint text from MoMA
publications should be addressed to text_permissions@moma.org.
Related links:
Outside
North America: Scala Archives
North America:
Art Resource
Pictured above,
top row, left to right:
Umberto Boccioni. Dynamism of a Soccer Player (Dinamismo di
un footballer). 1913. Oil on canvas, 6' 4 1/8" x 6' 7
1/8" (193.2 x 201 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection. Digital Image © 2002
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Vincent van Gogh. The Olive Trees.
1889. Oil on canvas, 28 5/8 x 36" (72.6 x 91.4 cm).
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. John Hay Whitney Bequest.
Digital Image
© 2002 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Odilon Redon. Silence. c. 1911.
Oil on gesso on paper, 21 1/4 x 21 1/2" (54 x 54.6 cm).
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Lillie P. Bliss Collection.
Digital Image © 2001 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pictured above,
bottom row, left to right:
Leopold Survage. Colored Rhythm. 1913. One of fifty-nine
studies for the film. Watercolor, brush and ink on paper, 13 x 12
1/8" (33 x 30.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase.
Digital Image © 2002 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Auguste Rodin. Head. 1897. Bronze, 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 6 1/4"
(19 x 19 x 15.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of
The Cantor, Fitzgerald Collection. Digital Image
© 2002 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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