More than 100 museums release `` free coloring '', many works that you can feel the `` past era '' just by looking at it



The #ColorOurCollections event, an event that highlights collections owned by more than 100 museums, libraries, universities and botanical gardens on social media as 'coloring books ', has been released. The participating works are so diverse that they can't be described in a single word. Just looking at them will give you an idea of what art and advertising used to be like.

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The New York Academy of Medicine, a public health agency that became the predecessor of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, planned #ColorOurCollections in 2016 for the purpose of `` disseminating unknown works and promoting creativity ''. did. It is recommended that museums participating in this event convert their collections to black and white “coloring” format and make them available for download as PDF format.

#ColorOurCollections for 2020 was held from February 3 to February 7. The works announced during the event period can be viewed freely from the official website below even after the period ends.

#Color Our Collections – The New York Academy of Medicine Library
https://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/



When you access the official website, the participating works will be displayed in a list. Since the creatures such as this time human face dog too strange that was worrisome, work of the University of Sussex library to take a look at.



When you access individual pages, you can see each work from the embedded PDF file, but in some cases a large blank part is displayed in the article. In that case, click the link below the blank area.



Then you can directly access

the PDF file that summarizes the coloring book .



The coloring book that the University Library of Sussex had recommended in 2020 was a pig with a human head, face, hands, and feet. The work was drawn in 1678 by Ambroise Palais, an official French royal surgeon who also contributed to the development of modern surgery.



The participating works are diverse and their genres are also diverse.

Participating works of the Pritzker Military Museum and Library (PDF file) are coloring posters of US Navy recruitment posters during World War II. The figure depicts a U.S. military standing on the Iwo Jima flag.



The coloring book of a cat with too strong eye power was

published by Trinity Hall Cambridge University (PDF file) . The painting was drawn by British priest Edward Topsell , who also applied ancient traditions to real life creatures and left strange commentary and pictures about animals, such as 'Weasels give birth from ears.' You.



The West Virginia and Regional History Center will

display (PDF file) coloring books such as butter advertisements from Swift & Company (now JBS) in 1923. Seventy-three boys bite into the bread and appeal to them that this is real butter.



Europeana, a digital platform for EU cultural heritage, entitled `` European Industry '' is a comparison of French steam locomotives and illustrations showing how workers at the time worked. Was

published (PDF file) .




Kansai University is also

releasing a digital archive coloring book ' Osaka Art Tower ' on its official website (PDF file) . The following is a coloring book from the late Edo era painter, Kamata Iwamatsu , on ' Sanbiki Puppies '.



Also painted in the late Edo painter,

Kimura Detoyoshido 's ' Hanachonozu '.



The Kansai University Asia Open Research Center has shown the results of actually painting a flower and butterfly illustration coloring book on Twitter.




As described above, a wide variety of works are open to the public, and it takes an enormous amount of time to find interesting and desired pictures. Then, click the loupe icon on the top right of the official page ...



A search field will be displayed, so try typing 'Japan'.



Then I found an exhibition called 'Map of Japan in the Tokugawa Era' at the University of British Columbia.



(PDF file) Looking at the

contents , a part of a map depicting the area around Tokaido, called the Tokaido detailed view , was published.



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