- Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online: Getty Institute
- (J. Paul Getty Trust)
- Timeline of Art History
- (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- ArtCyclopedia
- Search by artist, title, museum or collection, subject, medium, style. (Privately maintained; appears to be updated daily.)
- WebMuseum: Famous Artworks Exhibition
- Search by artist or period. (ibiblio.org, University of North Carolina; AOL Time Warner; Encyclopædia Britannica; Tokyo University of Science)
- Art Museum Network News
- Links to 200+ art museums worldwide. (Association of Art Museum Directors )
- The British Museum
- (The British Museum, London)
- Chicago Institute of Art
- (The Art Institute of Chicago)
- Getty Museum: Explore Art
- (J. Paul Getty Museum)
- The Hermitage
- (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia)
- The Louvre
- (Musee de Louvre, Paris)
- Museum of Fine Arts
- 316,000+ images available online. (MFA Boston)
- MoMA: The Museum of Modern Art
- (MoMA, New York City)
- National Gallery of Art
- The collection. (U.S. Government)
- The National Museum of American Illustration
- (Judy A.G. Cutler and Laurence S. Cutler)
- Tate Gallery
- Search by artist's last name for works in the Tate collection. (Tate Gallery, London)
- Vatican Museums Online
- Includes the Sistine Chapel and Egyptian and Etruscan Museums. (The Vatican Museum)
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
- (Smithsonian Institution Libraries)
- Art Images for College Teaching
- A "free-use educational resource." (Allan T. Kohl, Visual Resources Librarian, Minneapolis College of Art & Design)
- Portraits of the National Portrait Gallery
- Search by artist, sitter, ethnicity, occupation/distinction for works in this collection. (National Portrait Gallery)
- American Impressionism
- Artists Childe Hassam, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, John Twatchman, and Thomas Wilmer Dewing. (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art
- Sections on spiritual expressions, shared concerns, historical perspectives, and artists. (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Arte Latino
- "Celebrates the vitality of Latino art . . . from the 18th through the 20th centuries [as] represented by Carlos Alfonzo, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Jesús Bautista Moroles." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Contemporary Folk Art
- "Self-taught artists of the past 40 years such as Thornton Dial, Sr., Howard Finster, and William Hawkins; [their skills] were often developed in isolation or in small communities across the country." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- The Gilded Age
- "Highlights John Singer Sargent, Abbott Thayer, and others who brought a new sophistication and elegance to American art in the decades before World War I." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Lure of the West
- "Portraits of Native Americans by George Catlin, western subjects by Frederic Remington and Albert Bierstadt, and works from the Taos School." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Modernism & Abstraction
- "Shows radical transformations of American art in the 20th century by Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden O'Hartley, Stuart Davis, and Franz Kline." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art
- A joint project of museums in United States, Canada, Mexico; the text is available in English, French, and Spanish. (Canadian Heritage Information Network; Canadian Museum of Civilization; Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Winnipeg Art Gallery)
- Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America
- "A monotype is made by drawing with printer's ink or oil paint on a smooth surface [and then] transferred to paper . . . Because most of the image is transferred in the printing process, only one strong impression can be taken, hence the term monotype (one print)." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- The White House Collection of American Crafts
- Arranged by media: glass, fiber, wood, ceramics, and metal. (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Young America
- "Traces the country's transformation from colonies to nationhood through great portraits by John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and Gilbert Stuart as well as landscapes and scenes of early America." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Ancient Near-East Photograph Collection
- Structures and sites dating from 3000 BCE to 200 CE. (University of Washington)
- Chinese Ceramics
- "Tomb Treasures," "Researching Ancient Lands," "Fit For an Emperor." (Pacific Asia Museum)
- Himalayan Art Resources
- 20,000+ images; paintings, sculpture, textiles. (Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation)
- Arte Latino
- "Celebrates the vaitality of Latino art . . . from the 18th through the 20th centuries [as] represented by Carlos Alfonzo, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Jesús Bautista Moroles." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art
- A joint project of museums in United States, Canada, Mexico; the text is available in English, French, and Spanish. (Canadian Heritage Information Network; Canadian Museum of Civilization; Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Winnipeg Art Gallery)
- George Catlin Indian Paintings Collection
- Over 400 portraits from the 2002 Smithsonian exhibition. (Smithsonian Institution)
- Eying America: The Prints of Robert Cottingham
- Take a trip with Cottingham, read an essay about his influences, and view 70 images from permanent collection. (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Chaim Gross: A Celebration
- "Presents 19 wood, stone, and bronze sculptures and works on paper." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- An Edward Hopper Scrapbook
- His life, friends, and paintings. (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Edmonia Lewis: Cleopatra Lost and Found
- "At the height of her fame in the late 1860s and 1870s, Edmonia Lewis brought a new, naturalistic approach to the neoclassical tradition. Her works were infused with both personal relevance and timely human rights issues." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Gilbert Stuart
- Known for his portraits of George Washington. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Abbott Handerson Thayer
- "Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849-1921) [was] a New Englander who expressed the spiritual in much of his work; he was known as a "soul painter." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
- Turner Online
- The definitive online site for the celebrated British artist Joseph Mallord William (JMW) Turner, 1775-1851. (Tate Gallery, London)
- Van Gogh's Letters
- Comprehensive collection of translated correspondence between Vincent and his brother, Theo. (IDEA: Institution for Dynamic Educational Advancement)
- Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- "The first edition appeared in Boston on 8 November 1884; six days later, it was sold out. Critics rushed to acclaim it as a masterwork of American art, and Vedder (1836 - 1923) as the master American artist." (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
This page was last updated on 2007 January 12.
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