Art and Visual Communications

Background Information

Journal Articles

Academic Search Premier
Art Abstracts Full Text
JSTOR

Web Resources

Online exhibits, hundreds of oral history transcripts, online reference assistance, finding aids and more on American art.

Vast, well-organized selection of links to Web sites covering all of art history.

“Ask Joan of Art” online reference feature, Smithsonian American Art Museum collection search with selected images, Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index, a guide to Researching Your Art, and more.

More than 1,200 well-organized links to visual arts Web resources.

Free access to some 125,000 images by 8,000 artists, and free articles on many. Excellent museum directory. Fee-based links to Art-price.com auction results and to Highbeam Research articles.

Definitions of more than 3,600 terms, supporting images, pronunciations, quotations, cross-referencing, and related Web links.

Free online magazine featuring articles, news, book and exhibition reviews, and more. Free links to museums and to images of more than 90,000 artworks for sale in galleries. Links to other fee-based services.

Daily summaries of and full-text links to significant arts stories selected from a wide range of international English-language sources, fully archived and keyword searchable. A great place for the art lover to start the day.

Specializes in American art. Free features include museum and gallery directories, searches of “about 42,000 American artists” for their inclusion in these museums and galleries, special features, and an art glossary. Paid services include auction results and more extensive image results.

Directory and links to selected art and architecture Web sites, arranged by topic.

Full-text coverage of The Dictionary of Art (see Encyclopedias above). Ask librarian at the Reference Desk for username and password.

Vital statistics, contact information, and date of latest update for each of some 3,000 libraries and (in many cases) links to their Web sites.

The most extensive Web directory of museums worldwide, with links to their Web sites. As of October 25, 2005, linked to 1,460 U.S. and 870 Japanese museums, to cite just two countries.

Well-organized portal to artists; art history; museums, galleries, and centers; design arts; and much more.