Art, Images and Photography on the Web

General Art Resources

• Artcylopedia (http://www.artcyclopedia.com) - A guide to art on the internet
• Archives of American Art (http://artarchives.si.edu/) - Offered by the Smithsonian Institute
• Artchive (http://www.artchive.com)
• Artlex: Art Dictionary (http://www.artlex.com/)
• The Art History Research Centre (http://www.harmsen.net/ahrc/)
• Art History Resources (http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html)
• Art Images (http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html)
• Art on the Net (http://www.art.net/)
• Mother of all Art and Art History Links Page (http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/) - Offered by the University of Michigan
• Timeline of Art History (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm) - Offered by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Whitney ARTPORT (http://artport.whitney.org/) - The Whitney Museum Portal to Net Art

Architecture Resources:

• Architecture Web Resources (http://library.nevada.edu/arch/rsrce/webrsrce/contents.html) - University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• The Great Buildings Collection (http://www.greatbuildings.com/)- Includes 3D viewable simulations of many buildings

Artist Biographies and Profiles:

• AskArt (http://askart.com) - Over 24,000 artists' profies are available

Cultures and Ethnicities:

• Art and Archaeology of Africa (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/AfArt.html) - Offered by Columbia University
• The Mexican Museum (http://www.mexicanmuseum.org) - San Francisco
• The Asian Art Museum (http://www.asianart.org/) - San Francisco

Drawing:

• The Essence of Line (http://www.frenchdrawings.org/) - A database of nineteenth-century French drawings
• The National Museum of American Illustration (http://www.americanillustration.org/) - From Rhode Island, art intended for books, magazines, and advertisements

Museums:

• American Museum of Art (http://americanart.si.edu/) - Part of the Smithsonian Institute
• Art Museum Network (http://www.amn.org/) - Click on the "Visit 200 AMN Nuseum Sites" link in the left column.
• Asian Art Museum (http://www.asianart.org/) - Located in San Francisco
• The British Museum (http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk)
• Chicago Institute of Art (http://www.artic.edu/aic)
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (http://www.thinker.org) - Includes both the DeYoung Museum and the Legion of Honor
• Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield Collections Database (http://museums.fivecolleges.edu) - Includes Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Historic Deerfield, Mount Holyoke Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
• J. Paul Getty Museum: Art at the Getty (http://www.getty.edu/art) - Located in Los Angeles
• Louvre Museum (http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=en) - Located in Paris, France
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org) - Located in New York
• Mexican Museum (http://www.mexicanmuseum.org) - Located in San Francisco
• Museum of Fine Arts Online Collections Database (http://www.mfa.org/artemis/collections) - Located in Boston
• Museum of Modern Art (http://www.moma.org) - Located in New York
• Museum of the Moving Image (http://www.movingimage.us/site/site.php)- Located in Astoria, New York
• The National Museum of American Illustration (http://www.americanillustration.org) - From Rhode Island, art intended for books, magazines, and advertisements
• National Portrait Gallery (http://www.npg.si.edu) - Part of the Smithsonian Institute
• Museum of Craft & Folk Art (http://www.mocfa.org) - Located in San Francisco
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (http://www.sfmoma.org)
• The State Hermitage Museum (http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/index.html) - Located in St Petersburg, Russia

Photography:

• American Museum of Photography (http://www.photography-museum.com)- A virtual museum
• The Archive of Early American Images (http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/pages/ea_hmpg.html) - From Brown University's John Carter Brown Library this is a database of pictures of the Colonial Americans from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, based entirely on primary sources printed or created between 1492 and circa 1825.
• The Eastman Project: Images of California Life (http://www.oac.cdlib.org:8082/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6w100646) - Online Archives of California
• Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html)
• Los Angeles Public Library Virtual Gallery (http://www.lapl.org/virgal)
• Masters of Photography (http://www.masters-of-photography.com)
• North Carolina Civil War Image Portfolio (http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/pcoll/civilwar)
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm)
• Online Photography (http://www.onlinephotography.com) - from the Journal of Fine Art Photography
• Photo Study Collection Database from the Getty Museum (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/photo_study_collection)
• The Photography Collection: Western History (http://photoswest.org)- Denver Public Library
• PhotoLondon: Gallery (http://www.photolondon.org.uk/gallery.htm)
• Siqueiros Image Bank: Everyday Revolutionary Life (http://www.e-flux.com/projects/siqueiros/archive.php)- An archive of over 11,000 photographic images collected by the Mexican Muralist David Áfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974).
• The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/earthquakeandfire/index2.html)- University of California Berkeley Bancroft Library
• San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection (http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/sfhistory/sfphoto.htm)- San Francisco Public Library
• Smithsonian Images (http://smithsonianimages.si.edu/siphoto/siphoto.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=home)

Research Guides:

• Finding Images on the Web (http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/index.html)- Created by Boston University
• Looking for Art on the Web by Subject (http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/artimages.html) - Created by Boston University

Specific/Special Collections:

• Beazley Archive (http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/BeazleyAdmin/Script2/default.htm)- From Oxford University - Greek and Roman art
• Bellini: Creating & Re-creating (http://www.ima-art.org/bellini/index.html) - Indianapolis Museum of Art
• The Ceramics Web (http://ceramics.sdsu.edu/ceramicsweb.html) - San Diego State University
• Cover Art: The Time Collection at the National Portrait Gallery (http://www.npg.si.edu/time)
• DScriptorium: Medieval Manuscripts (http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium)
• Hokusai: Mad About Painting (http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/Hokusai.htm) - From The Smithsoniam - work of the Japanese painter and printmaker, Katsushika Hokusai(1760­1849).
• Medieval Art Resources (http://www.netserf.org/Art)
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm)
• Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865 - 1885 (http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2005/cezannepissarro/index.html) - Museum of Modern Art
• Shared Experience: Art & War (http://www.awm.gov.au/sharedexperience/index.asp) - From the Australian War Museum - Presents the experiences of Australians, Britons, and Canadians in the Second World War through paintings created during this period.
• The Warhol: Time Capsule 21 (http://www.warhol.org/tc21) - Andy Warhol Museum
• Women Artists Through Time (http://www.uwrf.edu/history/women.html) - University of Wisconsin-River Falls
• USC Digital Archives (http://digarc.usc.edu:8089/cispubsearch) - 100,000 photographs, maps, manuscripts, records, texts and sound recordings owned by USC and collaborating institutions.

What about Citing Images from the Web?

• Citing Basic Forms of Electronic Sources (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html#Electroni) - Purdue Online Writing Lab - Scroll down the page to find the section on online Images.
• Citing Images and Pictures (http://www3.babson.edu/Library/research/citing_sources.cfm#images) - Babson College Library
• The Learning Page: How to Cite Electronic Sources (http://memory.loc.gov/learn/start/cite/index.html) - Library of Congress - Scroll down the page to find the section on photographs.

What about Copyright?

• Copyright and Image Management (http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/image.htm) - University of Texas System
• US Copyright Office: Copyright Basics (http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html)

 

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