Resources for Art & Design
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Databases for Art & Design
Electronic indexes, full text databases and high-quality reference sources provided by the University of Minnesota libraries and especially useful to Art & Design students and faculty.
Minnesota Art
resources on the web
- MNArtists.org
- An online database of Minnesota artists from all disciplines.
- Minnesota Reflections
- A site with nearly 20,000 images and documents shared by more than 75 cultural heritage organizations across the state. This site offers a broad view of Minnesota's history for researchers, educators, students, and the public.
- U of M's Digital Content Library
- About 100,000 files, mainly image pictures, are in this database for use in teaching mainly art and design classes at the University of Minnesota.
Dictionaries
- ARTLEX
- You will find definitions of more than 3,300 terms here, along with thousands of images, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web.
Directories
- AskArt
- As a public service, AskART provides directory listings and links to approximately 1300 museums from around the world, dealers, auction houses, and an extensive list of artists in their collections.
Gateways and Megasites
- Art History Resources on the Web
- Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe, Sweet Briar College.
- Mother of all Art and Art History Links Page
- Sponsored by the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.
Websites
- Dictionary of Art Historians
- This database is designed to give researchers a beginning point to learning the background of major art historians of western art history. Includes an index of art historians mentioned in major art historiographies. Sorenson, Daniles, Counihan, Lemke. 2003.
- National Arts Education Association - NAEA
- Resources for those studying Art Education.
- Research at the Getty
- This website will connect to the art research tools available online at the Getty Research Institute, including the Union List of Artists Names (ULAN), the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Photo Study Collection, and the Getty's own extensive library collection.
- Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
- "Resources in Art History for Graduate Students", now entering its fifth year of publication, is a source for information on fellowship, grant, publication, symposia, internship, and other opportunities for graduate students in art history and most areas of the humanities.
Image Resources
- Finding Images in the Library and Beyond
- Your one stop site for finding images - resource from the University of Arizona.
- NYPL Digital Gallery
- This is a digital collection of 275,000 images from the New York Public Library. It covers illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
Electronic Journals
- Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
- Editors and Editorial Advisory Board: the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA). Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is the world's first scholarly, refereed e-journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe.
Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
- American Swedish Institute
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Search the permanent collection.
- Minnesota Center for Book Arts
- Minnesota Center for Photography
- Walker Art Center : Painting and Sculpture from the Collection