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General Guides
    ArtLex: Art Dictionary
    Includes over 3,000 definitions along with numerous illustrations, quotations, and links to other resources.

    AskART
    Database of over 50,000 American artists, including biographies and images of paintings. Also contains a glossary, art topic essays, and information on art museums, galleries, auction houses, and more.

    Librarians’ Internet Index: Arts and Humanities
    A searchable, annotated list of Internet resources on topics such as aesthetics, crafts, photography, textiles, and art.

    Voice of the Shuttle: Art (Modern and Contemporary)
    Links to hundreds of sites including galleries and exhibitions, auctions, artists and works, art theory and politics, course syllabi, and teaching resources.
Topics in Art
    Education
    • ArtsEdNet
      The Getty Center in California provides this art education Web site with lesson plans, an online discussion group, and links to related Web sites.
    Images
    • Artcyclopedia
      Collection of exhibits and museums worldwide searchable by artist, artwork, or museum.
    • ARTstor
      Digital images and information about works of visual art, including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design from many times and cultures.
      On-campus access | Off-campus access | An Introduction to ARTstor
    • Audubon’s Birds of America
      Digital version of John James Audubon’s Birds of America from the University of Pittsburgh collection.
    • Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web - Art
      This is an alphabetical list of sites containing art images.
    • Grove Art Online
      Now contained in Oxford Art Online.
    • New York Public Library Digital Gallery
      The New York Public Library has developed this image database to provide free and open online access to thousands of images from the original and rare holdings of their specialized Research Libraries. Spanning a wide range of visual media, the NYPL Digital Gallery offers digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more.
    • Oxford Art Online
      Art reference sources including Grove Art Online, an encyclopedia covering visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present.
    Museums
Government Resources
    National Endowment for the Arts
    The NEA supports artists and the arts in America through grants, fellowships, partnerships, and publications.

    National Gallery of Art
    Primarily collects paintings and sculpture from the late middle ages to the present, from Europe and the United States.

    Art Theft Program
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation provides images and descriptions of stolen art and cultural property reported throughout the United States and abroad.

    New York State Council on the Arts
    A state agency that provides support for nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in New York State.
Local Resources Professional Organizations

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Compiled by Barbara Barone, Reference Librarian


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