Biography - Art Guide

For book-length biography, check the Library Catalog for the artist as a subject. For example:

Periodicals are also good places to find biographical information. Use the various periodical indexes such as Art Full Text, Readers’ Guide Abstracts, etc.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index is an index to various biographical dictionaries such as Who’s Who in America, Current Biography, etc. Ask at the Reference Desk for help.

There are also numerous biographical dictionaries. A few are listed here. You can find more doing a keyword search in the Library Catalog by using the term artists or sculptors or painters, etc. with the term biography.
For example: artists and biography; sculptors and biography

Bearden, Romare. A history of African-American artists: from 1792 to the present.
Reference N 6538 N5 B38 1993

Bryan, Michael. Bryan’s dictionary of painters and engravers. (1905) Reference N 40 B94.

Contemporary artists. Reference N 6490 C6567 1996 (Earlier editions in the General Collection).

Contemporary designers. Reference NK 1510 C65 1997

Havlice, Patricia. Index to artistic biography. Reference N 40 H38

Illustrators of children’s books, 1744- Reference NC 965 M59

New York Historical Society. Dictionary of artists in America, 1564-1860.
Reference N 6536 N4

Rubinstein, Charlotte. American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions. Reference NB 236 R8 1990

Watson-Jones, Virginia. Contemporary American women sculptors.
Reference NB212 W37 1986

Who was who in American art (1898-1947). Reference N 6512 W5 1985

Who’s who in American art. Reference N 6536 W5
Latest volume in Reference; Earlier volumes in General Collection

Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Artists. Reference N 6922 V2213 1991

World artists, 1950-1980. Reference N 6489 M37 1984
World artists, 1980-1990. Reference N 6489 W67 1991

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