Art Images
There are many resources for locating art on the Web. Using Google Image Search is probably the quickest way to locate art, but often the images are too small or the links to the original sources are dead. Many museums offer searchable databases and have digitized much of their collections. Chris Witcombe's Art History Resources on the Web has links to Museums & Galleries as does Jonathan Bowen in his Virtual Library museums pages. Here are some of the largest digitized art collections:
Though it is a subscription database, the AMICO Library is searchable and provides thumbnails of over 100,000 works of art owned by members of the Art Museum Image Consortium.
Other useful resources include:
Commercial resources include:
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Arthur And Helen Torr Dove,
Winslow Homer,
Eastman Johnson,
Walt Kuhn,
Yasuo Kuniyoshi,
Olive Rush,
Grant Wood and
Walter Pach (1883-1980),
Online Exhibitions:
Visual Thinking: Sketchbooks from the Archives of American Art,
Getting the Picture: the Art of the Illustrated Letter,
Selections from the Fairfield Porter Papers and
The American Indian Observed: Selected Sketches and Documents from the Collections of the Archives of American Art.
Among the online publications are:
Preliminary Guide to Craft-Related Collections (2001),
Guide to the Papers of African American Artists,
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Archivos Virtuales: Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists (2000).
- Search 6 million records from 20 specialist art libraries throughout Europe.
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Norman Adams (1927- )
Diana Armfield (1920 - )
Sandra Blow (1925 - )
Ralph Brown (1928 - )
Rosemary Butler (1930 - )
Bernard Arthur Ruskin Carter (1909- )
Sebastian Carter (1941 - )
Robert Clatworthy (1928 - )
Bernard Cohen (1933 - )
Peter DeFrancia 1921 - )
Joanna Drew (1929-2003)
Angelica Garnett (1918 - )
Alexander Glen (1912-2004)
Gombrich, Ernst Hans (1909 - )
Derrick Greaves (1927- )
Daphne Henrion Hardy (1917-2004)
Anthony Hill (1930 - )
Flavia Irwin (1916 - )
Morris Kestelman, (1905-1998)
Justin Knowles (1935 - )
Bruce Lacey, (1927 - )
Joan LaDell, Suzanne Lackner (1908 - )
Catherine Lampert (1946 - )
John Latham (1921 - )
Liliane Lijn (1939 - )
Leonard McComb (1930 - )
John McNairm, Conroy Maddox, (1912-2005)
Belinda Mara (1950 - )
Frank Martin (1914-2004)
Gustav Metzger (1926- )
Klaus Meyer (1918-2002)
Jacqueline Morreau (1929 - )
James Morrison (1931 - )
Brandon Neiland (1941 - )
Antony Penrose, (1947 - )
Godrey Pilkington (1918 - )
Nicholas Pope (1949 - )
Patrick Proctor (1936 - )
Kenneth Rowntree (1915-1997)
John Russell (1919 - )
Jo Self (1956 - )
Jack Smith (1928 - )
Joe Studholme (1936 - )
Ian Tregarthen-Jenkin (1920-2004) [F10736] 19 sixty-minute cassettes, interviewed by Linda Sandino, recorded in Fyfield. Marc Vaux (19332 - ) (listen to excerpt)
Pauline Vogelpoet (1926-2002)
Diana Walford (1918 - )
Evelyn Williams (1929 - )
George Wyllie (1921- )
- "More than 200.000 entries contain pictorial and written documents, locations, persons, concepts of times and styles, events, research literature and illustrations."
- "Based on specialized journalists' research information. These extensive, cutting-edge articles are about both prominent or less-known international artists, some of whom are nearly impossible to find on the Internet." You can browse by artist name, genre, instrument, project, region, country, institution and crossroad, a special feature which " enables you to make unexpected connections between artists. Crossroads place the artists and their work in new, narrative contexts."
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- Week-long juried glass show held every year in the Dutch town of Tubbergen. There is a list of exhibitors and photographs from past shows (2008 and 2007) including a lovely bowl.
, a database of nearly 20,000 images. For example, a simple search (recherche simple) for Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, (check the box Seulement les œuvres illustrées), retrieves 80 results including:
Other items include:
- Lisbon (Lisboa). Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1869-1955) "assembled an eclectic and unique collection that was influenced by his travels and his personal taste, and sometimes involved lengthy and complex negotiations with the leading experts and specialist dealers. His collection now totals over 6,000 pieces from all over the world..." The museum has an exceptional collection of Art Nouveau jewellery by René Lalique. Past Exhibitions include:
Cartier 1899-1949. The journey of a style (2007), The Art Library (Biblioteca de Arte) has an online catalog. Try searching by subject (assunto) for such terms as artes decorativas, moda, arquitectura, desenho, fotografia, joalharia etc. You can also view covers and tables of contents (click on list of back issues (Lista de fascículos anteriores) for over 400 art periodicals (Arte Periódicos), among them Beaux Arts and Colóquio: revista de artes e letras, published by the Fundaçaò Calouste Gulbenkian from 1959 to 1970. Colóquio's February 1968 cover art (capa) features José de Almada Negreiros' (1893-1970) Retrato de Fernando Pessoa which is also described (in Portuguese) by Ana Filipa Candeias. - Doha, Qatar. See Art's New Oasis by Kelly Crow, Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2008. "The architect Mr. Pei, inspired by the geometric forms of a 13th-century fountain at a mosque in Cairo, shaped the five-story museum like a staggered set of creamy building blocks, each cube adjusted just enough to catch a triangle of harsh light or deep shadow. Visitors can reach it by boat -- there is a dock for dhows, an Arabian-style fishing vessel made of wood -- or by traveling a palm-lined path and crossing a small bridge." See also Qatar Museums Authority
- By Sanford Schwartz, New York Review of Books, July 17, 2008, Volume 55, Number 12. Review of Peter Doig
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- By Jamie James, Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2008. "...Astonishing stone mountain of exquisitely wrought sculpture in Central Java..."