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Dataerai can pull artworks from the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) — the 130,000+ works in its Open Data Program — into one of your projects as metadata-first assets. Each artwork’s metadata — title, artist, medium, dimensions, date, accession number, classification, credit line, and more — is copied into Dataerai so it’s searchable and shareable alongside your own data. The image is not copied: clicking Download on an imported asset streams the work’s full-resolution image directly from the Gallery’s IIIF server. The Download is “blind” — for works without an open-access image (where there is no data file), it simply opens the work’s public page on nga.gov instead.
Imported assets are metadata-first: they describe and link to data that lives at the National Gallery of Art. Nothing is stored in your Dataerai allocation, so importing doesn’t consume your quota.
One artwork (a numeric NGA object id, e.g. 66460) imports as one asset. The National Gallery of Art Open Data is released into the public domain under CC0.

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Search the collection

Open the user menu (top right) → Import data, choose National Gallery of Art, then enter a search term and click Search.
  • The search is free text matched against the artwork title, the artist, and the accession number. Try Degas, Little Dancer, or 1985.64.62.
  • Results show Title, Type, and Date, with the artist and NGA object id under each title.
  • Use Per page (25, 100, 500, or 1000) to trade clicks for a longer page. The page count reflects the full result set, so you can page to the last page directly.

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Select and import

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Select artworks

Tick the artworks you want — click a row, or press Space or Enter on it, to toggle its checkbox. The header checkbox selects or clears everything on the current page; your selection is kept as you page through results.
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Choose the destination project

Paste the UUID of the project that should own the new assets into the Import into project field.
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Import

Click Import. Large selections are sent in batches automatically, and a single Import result panel summarizes how many artworks were imported (and how many new assets were created), plus any that failed and why.

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Rich artwork metadata

Each imported asset captures far more than the title. On the asset you’ll find the medium, dimensions, display date, accession number, credit line, classification, provenance, and the artist’s identifiers (ULAN and Wikidata), plus the work’s style, school, theme, technique, and keyword terms. The artist is recorded as a credited author, and the work’s style and classification become tags so you can filter by them.
Because imported assets point at the National Gallery of Art rather than your own storage, their images are only available while the Gallery serves them. If you need a durable copy under your control, download the image and upload it as a regular asset instead.

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