Art Research Starter

Search or browse by artist, title, museum, or movement or browse by medium, subject, nationality, or by women artists.

1996-2007
Defines terms used about art and by artists.

2002-2007
A directory of Web links for art and architecture.

Contains information about 52,000 American artists from the early 16th century through the present. Each entry includes biographical information about the artist, a bibliography of literature in which he or she is referenced, and museum references. Some images of artworks are also linked.

1995-present
A commercial directory of arts resources, with emphasis on contemporary and studio arts resources.

1997-2007
Search by architect, building, or place. Provides images, background information, and in some cases 3-D models.

The Archives of American Art is the largest repository in the world of primary source materials documenting the history of the visual arts in America. Included in over 5,000 collections are diaries, letters, sketchbooks, photographs, manuscripts, gallery records, and oral histories.

1995-
A vast directory of links maintained by Christopher Whitcombe of Sweet Briar College.

Archive of primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States.

A collection of links relating to Art History and computer applications in Art History sponsored by the Computers and History of Art Group. Includes links to many online image collections.

Includes links to many different kinds of online resources, including extensive image collections. Some resources may not be available to Gustavus students, but many are free online.

From ResourceShelf, a compilation of links to museum websites with searchable databases. Includes some museums not already linked with other image collections. Also see this web site's second update.

2000-2005
Information about museums and for museum professionals.

Search, browse or download over 22,000 digitized images from the collections of the NGA.