Art Resources

Subject Area Librarian 

• Associations & Organizations
• Electronic Journals
• Art Reference
• Art History
• Artists
• Art Museums
• Art Collections
• Art Information Super Sites
• Architecture
• Style Manuals & Writing Guides
• Ready Reference

Associations & Organizations

• ArtSource Arts Related Organizations 
  Portal page with links to art related organizations.
• Aesthetics On-Line
  Web page for the American Society of Aesthetics.

Electronic Journals

• ArtSource Art Journals Online 
  Portal page with links to online art journals .

Art Reference

• Standards Program: Introduction (Getty Research Institute )
  Art Standards
• Getty Institute: Vocabularies
  Controlled art subject headings.
• Art on Film Home Page
  Provides 25,000 records of "moving image productions" related to the fine and decorative arts.
• Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet
  Definitive guide to art online, at art museum sites and image archives worldwide.

Art  History

• The Art History Research Centre
  Key resources and methods of online research for art historians.
• Art Through the Ages 
  Links to images related to art history.
• ANU Art History Top Level Menu Page  
  Access to 120,000 images related to art history.

Artists

• The Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery 
  Information on van Gogh's life and paintings.
• NGA | Mark Rothko Life Rothko
  Life and  works of Mark Rothko.
• Art History - Famous Artists 
  Access to over 22,000 artists and their paintings, photography, sculpture, design, etc.
• Honore Daumier and His Lithographic Work
  This site provides information about 19th century French artist Honoré Daumier, including "a detailed biography, a bibliography ... a list of more than 700 Daumier exhibitions," tips for collectors, a list of significant collections, and more.
• Brandeis Libraries: Honore Daumier Lithographs
  The site features a Daumier timeline, a slide show of Daumier lithographs, a link to a database with images of thousands of Daumier lithographs, and a bibliography.

Art  Museums

Art Collections

• Digital Archive of American Architecture  
  900 digitized images of American architecture
• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture: Architectural History 102 
  These images are for the personal use of students, scholars and the public.
• Louis Agassiz Fuertes 
  One of the greatest bird artists in history.
• The AP Photo Archive 
  500,000 photographs document news events from 1840 to the present day.
• Bayly Art Museum: Power of Woe  
  E exhibition of women in prints from the Renaissance to the Present.
• Bayly Art Museum: Universes in Collision 
  Exhibition of men and women in 19th-century Japanese prints.
• African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning 
  Exhibition of images of African art.
• The Regency Fashion Page 
  Images of museum clothing, fashion plates, hairstyles, and portraits.

Art Information Super Sites

Architecture

• Gottscho-Schleisner Collection   
  Documents many building styles and trends throughout the U.S. 
• Great Buildings Online 
  Includes photographic images, architectural drawings, discussions, bibliography, architect information and more on over 800 structures. 

Style Manuals & Writing Guides

• MLA ONLINE  
  Authoritative information on MLA style .
• Chicago Style 
  The Chicago or Turabian style, sometimes called documentary note or humanities style, places bibliographic citations at the bottom of a page or at the end of a paper.
• Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style   
  Citing web documents with APA style.
• Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association 
  More citing web documents with APA style.
• Governors State Regional Online Writing Center (GROWL)  
  Resources and assistance in writing at GSU.
• Guide to Grammar and Writing 
  A comprehensive guide for grammar and basic writing.
• Purdue Online Writing Lab   
  Valuable information for anyone involved in writing. 

Ready Reference

• Reference Resources 
  Almanacs, Associations, Calculators, Calendars, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Maps, Phone Books, Quotations, Statistics, Style Guides.
• IPL Ready Reference Collection: Reference 
  Almanacs, Associations, Biographies, Calculators, Calendars, Census Data, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Periodical Directories, Phone Books, Quotations, Style & Writing Guides.

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Updated 9/25/08