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Art Resources Subject Guide LRC@TCC
 Scope: Basic resources for articles, images, and resources
for the visual arts.
Call number areas to browse:
N (Visual Arts), NA (Architecture), NB (Sculpture), NC (Graphic Arts),
ND (Painting)
NK (Decorative Arts), NX (Arts in General)
Keywords to search: art, sculpture, glass, etc., names
of artists, types of art such as Baroque or Celtic, names of countries
and art.
Subjects to search (Library of Congress): Art, Italy or Art,
France, etc. Names of places or groups of people and "in art" ex:
Children in art
Books in our catalog:
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r): Arts
and Humanities Through the Eras
Dictionary of Art (REF N31.D5 1996)
Encyclopedia of World Art (REF N31.E4833)
 Oxford
Reference Online: Art & Architecture:
Safari
Books Online (over 500 books on graphics)
Library Resources (r):
AP
Images
Arts & Humanities
Search
Biography
Reference Bank
Grove Art Online is now Oxford Art Online
JSTOR
OmniFile
Full Text Select
Online
Journals
Oxford
Art Online
Internet Resources:
Artcyclopedia a comprehensive
index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image
archives, and other online resources.
Art Movements:
a concise reference guide to the major art movements and periods,
helping you to learn more about the development and history of art.
Art
Movements of the 20th Century: Brief
overview and study guide of 20th century art movements.
Art Resource High
quality images of works of painting, sculpture, architecture and
the minor arts from most of the world’s major museums, monuments,
and commercial archives.
Art source: Web
portal that includes subject areas in various art topics, including
museum information, image collections, electronic exhibits, art events
and art organizations.
Getty
Vocabularies: Art and Architecture Thesaurus and Union List of
Artists Name Produced by the Getty Museum, contains 131 thousand
art terms, and 120 thousand bibliographic records of artists.
Joan
of Art: Art reference service sponsored by the Smithsonian
museum.
Jacques Berger Foundation: Interactive
art web site with digital reproductions covering broad span of various
art epochs, though concentrating in ancient and renaissance art
Librarians' Index to
the Internet: Art Resources Portal with all sites examined
and established by a librarians to be integrity based. Includes
Art by Region, African American Art, Cartoonists, and genres of
art such as Photography and Pottery.
Library Congress American Memory
Digital Collection: Excellent resource of digitized material
particularly photographs, all of which seeks to serve to document
the various American epochs and movements.
Museums Contributing
Images to the Art Museum Image Gallery: Compilation of various
American art museums that offer searchable databases in the art
they exhibit.
Museums
in the United States and Europe: Large compilation of links
to museums in United States, Canada as
well as Europe.
National Foundation for the Arts: Primary
grant and fellowship foundation for work and study in various forms
and mediums of fine arts.
New York Public Library Digital
Collection: Close to half a million of documentary photographs
as well as scanned book material.
Smithsonian Art Inventory
Catalog: Includes an inventory of American painting before
1914, as well as an inventory of American sculpture. The catalog
includes bibliographic information on over 335 thousand artworks,
including where one can find particular work. The catalog does
not include pictures or the work.
Timeline of World Art: Published
by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this resource allows one to search
epoch and schools or art as well as view art produced in that era.
Web Gallery of Art: Virtual database
with over 15 thousand digital images concentrating in renaissance
period.
World Wide Art Resources: The largest site
for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist
and gallery portfolios.
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