Crosby Catalogue [PORTABLE]
Tamsyn Gradney
Title page from Preliminary Catalogue of the Crosby-Brown Collection of Musical Instruments of All Nations: [Volume] I, Gallery 27, the first catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments to be published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1901
While we in Watson Library have been striving towards creating a comprehensive digital collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art publications for nearly five years (we have close to 1,800 items in our Museum Publications collection to date), we are continually amazed by the treasure troves we regularly find right beneath our feet in the library stacks, or through recommendations we receive from the Museum's expert curatorial staff. The latter was the case with the thirteen "Crosby Brown catalogues," as they are colloquially known. The curators in the Department of Musical Instruments are, of course, intimately familiar with these catalogues, but somehow they hadn't yet made it into the library's Digital Collections.
All of the Crosby Brown catalogues are now freely available online through the library's Digital Collections site. In order to make navigation to these catalogues as easy as possible, we have included a link to them on the landing page for our digitized Metropolitan Museum of Art publications, as well as on the Museum Publications page here on the Met's website. We encourage first-time visitors to our Digital Collections site to view a series of short YouTube videos in order to get the most out of its functionality.
In January this year, Young sold the rights to half of his catalogue for an estimated $150 million to Hipgnosis, the song management company founded by music exec Merck Mercuriadis and CHIC guitarist Nile Rodgers.
"I've known David as a friend and have admired him as a great artist since our earliest days at Geffen Roberts Management shortly after I moved to Los Angeles," Azoff said. "This is an incredible time to be involved with David and his tremendous catalogue of music. He's truly one of music's most prolific songwriters and artists and I'm honored he has made Iconic the steward of his timeless musical legacy."
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