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Articles

Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

Art Full Text
Indexes more than 400 key international arts periodicals.   Subject coverage includes, art, art history, archaeology, architecture, design, photography, and other arts related fields.  Full text from 1997 onward is available for select publications.

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Humanities Abstracts
Contains citations from more than 600 periodicals in archaeology and classical studies, area studies, communication, folklore, history, language, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

America: History and Life
Indexes history journals and some other publications covering the US and Canada.

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of  the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Articles from 1800 jouranls are indexed, same dating back to 1955.

JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.

Art Index Retrospective
A companion to Art Full Text, this database provides citations to older articles published between 1929 - 1984 in international arts periodicals. 

Arts and Humanities Search
Indexing of 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.  Citation Index allows searching of bibliographies

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Dictionary of Art. (Grove Dictionary of Art) Call Number: Reference N 31 D5 1996
This 34 volume set covers all the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, and the decorative arts.  It includes articles on visual art from the prehistoric times to the present, biographies of artists, and 15,350 illustrations. Coverage is worldwide in scope--from Oceania to North America to Japan and Africa.

Encyclopedia of World Art. Call Number: Reference N 31 E4833

Credo Reference
Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas.  Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.

Primary Sources

Artists on Art from the XIV to the XX Century. Call Number: Reference N 7452 G64 1958

Documents of 20th Century Art. Call Number: General Collection-see link below for call numbers
Collection of volumes giving primary sources relating to 20th century art.  In the LibraryCatalog, a search on this title will find a list of the books in the series.  Some of the authors included are: Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Arp, Umbro Apollonio, Daniel Kahnweiler, Jacques Lipchitz, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, and Pablo Picasso.

Lives of the Artist.Call Number: Reference N 6922 V2213 1991
Written by Vasari (1511-1574)

Smithsonian Archive of American Art
A digitized collection of papers of artists and other archival material from the Archives of American Art including  letters, postcards, sketches, exhibition records, diaries, and other unique documents. The collection also includes transcripts of interviews with artists, collectors, gallery directors, and art historians.

Twentieth-century artists on art : an index to artists' writings, statements, and interviews. Call Number: Reference NX 456 R59 1996

Specialized Sources

World Painting Index. Call Number: Reference ND45 H38
Used for locating reproductions of paintings in books and catalogs by artists from around the world.

Web Sites

Art History Resources on the Web
Links are arranged by time periods, Prehistoric to 20th Century. This site is maintained by Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Professor, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College.

ArtCyclopedia
A searchable guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet.

Getty Research Library
Search the collections of the Getty Research Library using IRIS, the on-line catalog, and connect to other reference and research resources.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Besides information on their collections you will find two useful sections, Explore & Learn and Timeline of Art History.

National Gallery of Art