I tried in vain to find an exhibit of album artwork and liner notes to compare with our class undertaking, but ended up settling for a cat art show... Cat Art Show at the Carriage Factory Gallery - The Cat in Art. Several artists' works are featured and the show ran for a month (February). It is not clear whether the online exhibit will continue now that the show has closed. Each image has a link to a "purchase" page, some information about the original, but nothing about the digitization process (other than what's available on the properties right-click tab). This image, for example, is captioned with the following: Bob Cat, Original Oil, Image Size: 10" x 8"; Framed Size: 12" x 10" $250.
There are no curatorial comments regarding the show. These images reflect the entire show, though there is one painting for which an image is not available, glaringly not available (why bother to have it as an entry in a digital image exhibit if an image is not available?). The images are simply placed, one after another, on the page. Despite the lack of sophistication of the presentation, the site is "presented in part by the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency."
There is also a very extreme copyright statement, absurd actually, that, after its overstatement of all the prohibitions that go far beyond the rights the law gives copyright owners, thanks us for our respect in this manner. In my exercise of fair use to copy the image above, I have, according to the site owners, violated their rights and disrespected them. I feel that it is the other way around, of course.
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