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Research Guide for: Art

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Art Resources

Grove Dictionary of Art
Full text on GALILEO under Databases-Arts and Humanities
Art Abstracts
Index to articles dealing with art topics. In GALILEO under Databases-Arts and Humanities

Government Documents

Web Sites

American Memory from the Library of Congress
A gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials.
Art History Resources on the Web
This is a site prepared by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. The site contains a good range of information designed for the scholar.
ArtSource
A gathering point for networked resources in art and architecture. This site is selective rather than comprehensive and contains resources submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians.
Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History Page
Has 17 categories that can be accessed from this page. The site is easy to use and has basic information. The page is maintained by Alan Liu.
World Wide Arts Resources
This site offers the definitive, interactive gateway to all exemplars of qualitative arts information and culture on the Internet. Artists, museums, galleries, art history, arts education, and antiques can be accessed. This site has a large volume of resources.

Museums

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
This site has more than 65,000 works by more than 15,000 artists.
Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts and humanities that includes an art museum as well as programs for education, scholarship, and conservation.
National Gallery of Art
The Gallery's extensive collection of paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper spans over 600 years of history from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Very Good Site. NMAA's reference desk answers questions within five working days.

Art Education

Art Studio Chalkboard
A resource for artists and art students that deals with the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting.
Crayola
Offers information for teachers and artists using Crayola products.
Kennedy Center ArtsEdge
Tool for teachers that includes art standards


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