{"id":6,"date":"2026-02-19T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midterm.dimondt.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:39:07","slug":"tate-artwork-production-1940-1949","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/midterm.dimondt.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Tate Artwork Production 1940\u20131949"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/27717186\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/27717186\/thumbnail\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\" \/><\/noscript><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This project analyzes artwork production in the Tate Gallery collection between 1940 and 1949. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using metadata from the Tate open collection dataset, I visualized annual artwork counts to explore how artistic production shifted during World War II and its immediate aftermath. The time-series visualization shows fluctuations that correspond to wartime disruption and postwar recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The dataset comes from the Tate Gallery open collection metadata (tate_artwork_data_1940-1950.csv). Each row represents an individual artwork and includes fields such as artist, title, year, and medium. The dataset was cleaned in Google Sheets to ensure that the year column was numeric and that only artworks from 1940\u20131949 were included. A pivot table was created to aggregate the number of artworks produced each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Processes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After cleaning the dataset in Google Sheets, a pivot table was used to calculate annual artwork counts. The aggregated dataset was exported as a CSV file and uploaded into Flourish to generate a time-series line chart. The line chart format was selected to emphasize changes across time and highlight fluctuations during wartime and postwar periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The visualization is embedded within a separate WordPress installation created specifically for the midterm project. The layout prioritizes clarity and readability, with labeled axes and a clean visual design. A line chart was chosen to clearly represent temporal trends and highlight patterns over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Significance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By applying digital visualization methods to museum metadata, this project portrays the many uses of computational tools, as well as how they can reveal historical patterns that are less visible in raw tabular data. The slump in artwork production during peak wartime years and the postwar increase illustrate how historical context may influence artistic output. At the same time, the dataset reflects institutional collecting practices, which shape what is preserved in the archive. This project exemplifies both the analytical potential and interpretive limitations of digital humanities approaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction This project analyzes artwork production in the Tate Gallery collection between 1940 and 1949. Using metadata from the Tate open collection dataset, I visualized annual artwork counts to explore how artistic production shifted during World War II and its immediate aftermath. The time-series visualization shows fluctuations that correspond to wartime disruption and postwar recovery. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midterm.dimondt.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midterm.dimondt.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midterm.dimondt.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midterm.dimondt.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midterm.dimondt.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midterm.dimondt.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/midterm.dimondt.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midterm.dimondt.sites.carleton.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}