Art Collection

Welcome!

We invite you to explore the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) art collection on this site.

We have made our best effort to provide accurate information. The site is continually evolving and new catalog records and images are regularly added.

To search the BAMPFA film and video collection catalog, visit our archived site. For film-related documentation, visit our CineFiles site.

Searching

You can enter search criteria by typing into the text boxes or selecting an option from a pick list and then clicking one of the "Display:" options. Any combination of fields may be used.

Some fields have an option of searching as either "keyword", "phrase", or "exact".

Exact: This will only return records where the field value is exactly what you input (e.g. searching for Materials oil on canvas will only retrieve records where the material field is exactly oil on canvas

Phrase: Returned records will contain exactly what you input, but may have more text before or after it (e.g. searching oil on canvas will also return oil on canvas mounted on board, oil on canvas and velvet, etc.)

Keyword: This will return all records that contain all of the words entered in that field, in any order (e.g. searching oil on canvas will also return oil and enamel on canvas , etc.)

Displaying Search Results

If your search has one or more results, you'll see four panes presented -- Results, Facets, Maps, and Statistics.

Results

There are three options for display.

List is ideal for seeing summaries of many records at once.

Full shows the full details of each record, including images.

Grid is ideal for viewing many objects at once while also displaying images. Clicking the museum number in any view will bring you to the Full view of that object. Clicking an image will open the full resolution image in a new tab.

Facets

After performing a search, clicking the "Facets" tab will show you a list, in descending frequency order, of values which appear the records returned by your search. For example, if you search for Artist Hofmann, Hans (exact), you will see under Classification "Photograph” 88, "Painting” 50 etc., meaning there are 88 photographs and 50 paintings by Hans Hofmann, etc. Clicking on the name of a facet will refine your search, returning only the results matching that value.

Statistics

The Statistics pane allows you to count the number of values that occur for items in your search result. It is useful for simple statistical summaries and cross-tabulations.

For example, if search for works created in 1820 ("date made = 1820"), you could select "Artist" as the "field to summarize on:" in the Statistics pane, then click "Display Summary", and you'd get a list of the artists whose works were made in that year, with a count of the number of those works.

It is important to note that this function summarizes the results of the current search, not of the entire collection.

Terms of Use

The data on this site is intended for educational and research use only. Many of the images are protected by copyright and require written permission from the copyright holder for any other use.

This webapp is the result of a long collaboration between several institutions at UC Berkeley and beyond. Only a few of the contributors are listed here.

This program was written and and is maintained by John Lowe (jblowe@berkeley.edu) at RTL.

Comments, suggestions, bug reports, and so on are most welcome.

This program is written in Python using Django, jQuery, and accessing a Solr datasource. The data is extracted and updated nightly from the BAMPFA CollectionSpace system.

Keyword	Classification	ID Number
Artist	Materials	Date Made
Title	Country	Status
Century		Show only items with images