"The complementary relationship of the Internet to traditional print resources, and vice-versa, is the crux of mastering art and architecture research today" (Ferrari 43).

Quick Links to Images, Movements, & Artist Information

• Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine - http://www.artcyclopedia.com
• ArtLex - http://www.artlex.com
• Harden's Artchive - http://www.artchive.com

Academic Search Engines, Subject Directories, and Research Centers

• ADAM: The art, design, architecture & media information gateway -http://adam.ac.uk/index.html - A catalog of sites selected by institutions in Great Britain. It includes US sites and covers design, architecture, media, art theory, museum studies, professional practice. Recommended for upper division & faculty.
• ARTSOURCE - http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/ - Text-based, beginner's website directory for art. Selective content and good for novice Internet searchers.
• Mother of all art history links - http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother
  University of Michigan site. 400+ links to academic, museum, commercial, and studio sites. History, research resources, visual collections, image collections, online exhibitions, fine art schools, art museums. A good place to research contemporary Asian and African Art. Advanced terminology used. CHOICE reveiwers recommend students discuss research topics with instructors before searching this site.
• The Art History research centre - http://art-history.concordia.ca/AHRC/splash.htm - This site provides access to many sites specific to art history research. If navigation bar doesn't appear follow the page's directions. An essay, "The Internet as a Research Medium for Art Historians" by Leif Harmsen the site web designer.
• Voice of the Shuttle - http://vos.ucsb.edu Academic art-related site indexing websites in art/art history.

Gallery, Image, and Museum Sites

• Archives of American Art - http://artarchives.si.edu - 'Catalog of documents about American visual arts from the 18th century to the 1950s and beyond.' Here you can find an item record and then use the record to order the item from a microfilm collection via the university's interlibrary loan office. Items include --"papers of artists, dealers, critics, art historians, curators, administrators, museums", American painting and sculpture.
• Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine - http://www.artcyclopedia.com - The site's goal is to be one of the most effective guides to museum quality art on the Internet. Here you find alphabetical listings of over 5,000 masters and contemporary artists and coverage of fine art painting and sculpture.
• Harden's Artchive - http://www.artchive.com - This collection of digitized works of art is made available for educational, private, non-profit use only. The collection includes public domain and copyrighted works of art and offers researchers information about Fair Use. See the copyright site below for more on Fair Use.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/- An introduction to the museum including views of works of art with information on the object and related links.
• MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) - http://www.moma.org/ - Here you can find recent exhibitions at MoMA, museum departmental information, book lists, profiles of modern artists, and full-text essays from exhibitions.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - http://www.mfa.org - This introduction to the museum covers exhibitions, collections, the Museum School, and the Museum of the National Center for Afro-American Artists.
• National Gallery of Art -- the collection - http://www.nga.gov/collection Here you can read about the history and purpose of the Gallery and take a tour. The Leonardo database of the gallery's collection lets you search for objects including artist information, critical essay, bibliography, history and provenance.
• National Museum of Women in the Arts - http://www.nmwa.org/ The mission of the site is to "bring recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods, nationalities through exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and educating the public." Research center resources, special collections, reference materials, and bibliographies are included.
• Smithsonian American Art Museum - http://www.nmsaa.si.edu - This site was formerly the National Museum of American Art. It includes exhibitions, collections, the online periodical American Art with full-text articles, and links to the Smithsonian Institution Research Information system, and Smithsonian Museums.
• Tate Gallery - http://www.tate.org.uk/ - The national collection of British art since 1500 and of international modern art. Includes current exhibitions and collections.
• the Getty - http://www.getty.edu - The J. Paul Getty Museum, Research Institute, Conservation Institute.
• Women Photographers - http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/site/exhibitions/women/ - Part of the California Museum of Photography at the University of California at Riverside, this site is based on the 1999 exhibition Independent Visions and is devoted to highlighting the womens' contributions to photography.

Reference Databases and Print Reference Works

• Arts and Humanities Citation Index/Search - http://www.ref.oclc.org/html/fs_pswd.htm - Click on All Databases. Choose AH Search from the database list. The database is used by researchers to determine how frequently and when works have been used and cited in other works. Indexes the leading arts and humanities journals, articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more.
• Art Index - http://www.ref.oclc.org/html/fs_pswd.htm -Click on all databases. Choose Art Index from listing. This H.W. Wilson source indexes 370+ sources for articles, reviews, visual reproductions, and museum bulletins. English and European languages. Covers art history, architecture, museology, video, and television. The FirstSearch version offers 1984 - present and some full-text articles. The print index in the library covers publications from 1929+. In library periodical indexes in reference. Call number: NX1 .A77.
• ArtLex - http://www.artlex.com Encyclopedic dictionary source of art terms, illustrations, quotations, and pronunciation by Michael Delahunt.
• Dictionary of Art. Vols. 1-34. In the library reference section. Call number: Ref. N31.D5 1996 V 1-36. 41,000+ articles on prehistory thru art of the 1990s in: architecture, painitng, sculpture, photography, etc...from 120 countries.
• Bibliography of the History of Art. In library reference section. Call number: Ref. N7 510.B53. European and American art topics. Abstracts 2,500+ journals, chapters in books, dissertations, exhibition catalogs and conference proceedings.
• The Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser-http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html - 'A controlled vocabulary designed for the multi-faceted, arts-related search.' Use this source to identify terms to use for searching art resources. Free from The Getty Research Institute.

Research Tips & Copyright Information

• "The Internet as a Research Medium for Art Historians" by Leif Harmsen - http://art-history.concordia.ca/AHRC/splash.htm - An essay on art research by the site web designer of The Art History research centre.
• The United States Copyright Office. The Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/copyright -This site details copyright information, answers frequently asked questions, and provides updates on copyright issues related to digital transmissions.

These sources were consulted in creating the content for this page:

"Art & Architecture." CHOICE. Current Reviews for Academic Libraries WEB V. Special Issue to Volume 38. (Summer, 2001): 58-63.

Ferrari, Roberto C. "Art on the 'Net: Enhanced Research for Art & Architecture." Academic Resources on the Internet: Options for Scholars & Libraries. Eds. Helen Laurence and William Miller. New York: The Haworth Press. 2000. 39-62.

Please send questions about this page and suggestions for additional links to Linda Salem, Associate Librarian, linda_salem@redlands.edu.