Library Guide to Art Resources

The links on this page have been selected by the librarians as good resources for library patrons to consult when looking for information on the World Wide Web. If you need any assistance, please ask a Reference Librarian! Stop by the information desk in the library, call 375-2164, or send e-mail to ref@sbu.edu 

Books and Other Media

• Browse St. Bonaventure University Library Catalog 
• Browse materials in libraries worldwide--WorldCat 

If you are looking for books in the Friedsam Memorial Library, use the Library of Congress letter N as your starting point.  

• N-Visual Arts
• NA-Architecture
• NB-Sculpture 
• NC-Drawing, Design, Illustration
• ND-Painting
• NE-Print Media
• NK-Decorative Arts
• NOXA-Arts in General

Recommended Databases

Academic Search Complete (EbscoHost)
Academic OneFile (Gale)
ArtStore
Credo Reference
Encyclopedia Britannica 
JSTOR:  Search or Browse by Discipline [on-campus access only]

Websites

Art Galleries and Museums

• Archives of American Art: http://www.aaa.si.edu/ 
• Art History Research Center: http://www.harmsen.net/ahrc/ 
• Image Uribis: Guiseppe Vasi's Grand Tour of Rome: http://vasi.uoregon.edu/ 
• Islamic Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: http://www.lacma.org/islamic_art/islamic.htm 
• Joseph Corness: Navigating the Imagination: http://www.pem.org/sites/cornell/ 
• Louvre Atlas Database of Exhibits: http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=crt_frm_rs&langue=en&initCritere=true 
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/ 
• MoMa (Museum of Modern Art): http://www.moma.org/ 
• Mother of All Art and Art History Links: http://www.umich.edu/~motherha/ 
• Museum of Fine Arts (Boston): http://www.mfa.org/ 
• National Gallery of Art-The Collection: http://www.nga.gov/collection/ 
• National Museum of American Illustration: http://www.americanillustration.org/ 
• National Museum of Women in the Arts: http://www.nmwa.org/ 
• North Caroline Museum of Art: http://ncartmuseum.org/ 
• San Jose State University. Digital Art Lobby: http://gallery.sjsu.edu/ 
• Smithsonian American Art Museum: http://www.americanart.si.edu  
• Studies in Western Tapestry: http://www.studiesinwesterntapestry.net/ 
• Tate Gallery: http://www.tate.org.uk/ 
• The Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery: http://www.vincent.nl/?/library/information.htm 
• Vincent van Gogh: The Letters: http://www.vangoghletters.org/vg/ 
• WebMuseum: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/ 
• Web Resources for American Art: http://www.ahaaonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=856&Itemid=92
      

Art Organizations

• National Endowment for the Arts: http://arts.endow.gov/
         

 Art Reference

• Art Babble: http://artbabble.org/ 
• Arts Journal: Daily Art News: http://artsjournal.com/ 
• Art:21: http://www.pbs.org/art21/ 
• ArtLex Art Dictionary: http://www.artlex.com/ 
• Asian Arts: http://www.asianart.com/index.html 
• AskArt: http://www.askart.com/AskART/index.aspx 
• Bibliography of the History of Art/International Bibliography of Art: http://library.getty.edu:7108/vwebv/searchBasic?sk=en_US_getty 
• Catalog of American Portrait Search: http://npgportraits.si.edu/emuseumCAP/code/emuseum.asp 
• Coleccion Cisneros: http://www.coleccioncisneros.org/home.asp 
• International Foundation for Art Research: http://ifar.org/ 

Photography

• The American Museum of Photography: http://www.photographymuseum.com/ 
• Center for Creative Photography Digital Collections: http://www.creativephotography.org/ 
• The Cite Gallery of 19th-century Photography: http://www.city-gallery.com/ 
• The History of Photography: http://fi.edu/pieces/watson/hist.htm 
• Photo Archive Database: http://piprod.getty.edu/starweb/psc/servlet.starweb?path=psc/psc.web 
• Shot of War: Photo Journalism During the Spanish Civil War: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/swphotojournalism/ 

This library guide was originally created by Nikki Rosetti, Summer 2011.
Last updated: January 2013