Art and Art History Subject Resources

 

 

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Don't know where to start on that art history project? Need to find some background information on an artist? Try searching librarian approved, free resources to help you complete your art and art history projects!

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Artcyclopedia - http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

This website provides links to articles, galleries, and museums. You can also search or browse the website by artist, medium, subject or nationality.  The quick links on the homepage direct you to encyclopedia articles on different art movements. The website focuses on painting and sculpture but also includes information on photography, decorative arts, installation arts, digital based art, folk art, and architecture.

  

The Mother of Art and Art History Links - http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/

The School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan provide the information on this website.  From this website, you can link to a variety of resources including online image collections, textual and linguistic resources, and new media art and resources.

  

Artchive - http://artchive.com/

This website provides art theory and criticism articles as well as background information on different artists, art mediums, and art movements. The website also features art CD-ROM reviews and links to galleries. 

 

The Art History Research Center - http://www.harmsen.net/ahrc/

This guide to Art History research includes lots of great tips to help you in the research process. Click the links on the home page to tips on searching Google, links to lots of other great Art History websites, and information on how to join Art History listservs (e-mail lists).

 

Art History Resources on the Web - http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

A professor of Art History maintains this website. The homepage provides links to historical and cultural art history information as well as international and domestic museums.

 

Smithsonian American Art Museum -

http://www.americanart.si.edu/?CFID=12117086&CFTOKEN=29481855

In addition to viewing great works of art on this website, you can also get research help. Click the “Research” link at the top of the page, and then click the “Research Tools” link on the left. This page will help you research art, and you can even ask Smithsonian American Art Specialists research questions.

  

Artists Rights Society - http://arsny.com/about.html

This website provides lots of information on copyright issues. The Artists Rights Society (ARS) protects artists’ intellectual property rights. Learn how to protect your work, and how to legally incorporate the work of others into your research projects.

  

Decorative Arts and Material Culture - http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/images.html#image

This digital library is provided by the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Search images, virtual exhibits, and documents for information about decorative arts and material culture.  The digital library also provides directories of associations, libraries, and museums.

 

Philadelphia Museum of Art – http://www.philamuseum.org/

Use this great website to find out information about the Philadelphia Museum of Art collections, events, exhibits, and museum publications. Create an account under the link ‘My Museum’ to view and collect digital images.

  

Winterthur- http://www.winterthur.org/research/library_resources.asp

This website for Henry Francis Du Pont’s former estate, Winterthur, includes access to the online collection of photographs, decorative and fine arts housed at the estate. Search the digital collection browse the collection by creator’s last name http://dapc.winterthur.org/iseedapc/INDEX.HTM

  

Philadelphia Architects and Buildings - http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/

This database allows you to search more than 263,745 projects and buildings, 23,320 architects, engineers and contractors, and over 125,597 images of Philadelphia and the surrounding area. Register for free to access all information.

 

Fairmont Park Art Association - www.fpaa.org/index_artist.html

Find information about selected public artworks in Philadelphia by the names of the artists who created them.

 

Virtual Library Museum Pages - http://icom.museum/vlmp/

Online directory to United States and International museums. 

  

Timeline of Art History - http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

This amazing resource provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes essays, images, and world maps. This website includes art from 20,000 BC to the present.

  

Loggia – Exploring the Arts and Humanities - http://www.loggia.com/

This website provides articles, book reviews and other reference resources art and art history, architecture and design, the decorative arts, industrial design, and classical studies such as Greek, Roman, and Celtic mythology.

  

ArtLex – Art Dictionary – http://www.artlex.com/

You'll find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.

  

World Wide Arts Resources - http://wwar.com/

This website contains information on contemporary art and artists as well as art history information.  On the homepage you can access the blog Artblogs for current opinions, artists’ profiles, and other news. 

 

Artnet Research Library - http://www.artnet.com/

Access online galleries, current news, market news and more on this website that provides a place to buy, sell and research fine art online.

 

 

 

 

 

Updated December 2008